At least 357 people were killed in Iraq, mostly in the Haditha area where militants are regrouping after their loss of Ramadi.
read moreUS Military Leadership Resisted Obama’s Bid for Regime Change in Syria, Libya
Seymour Hersh’s recent revelations about an effort by the US military leadership in 2013 to bolster the Syrian army against jihadist forces in Syria shed important new light on the internal bureaucratic politics surrounding regime change in US Middle East policy....
US Should Stop Supporting Likely Saudi War Crimes
The United Nations top official on human rights recently told the U.N. Security Council that the U.S.-supported, Saudi Arabian-led coalition of Sunni nations fighting Shi'ite Houthi rebels in Yemen bore a disproportionate responsibility for attacks on civilians. Since...
The Saudis Go Full ISIS
Saudi Arabia has perpetrated a mass execution that puts ISIS’s beach beheadings to shame. Forty-seven heads rolled on Saturday. One of them belonged to Nimr al-Nimr, a revered Shi’ite cleric who had been sentenced to death for sermons in which he criticized the...
Will Mideast Allies Drag Us Into War?
The New Year's execution by Saudi Arabia of the Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr was a deliberate provocation. Its first purpose: Signal the new ruthlessness and resolve of the Saudi monarchy where the power behind the throne is the octogenarian King Salman's...
Mass Graves, Executions; 238 Killed Across Iraq
At least 238 people were killed in Iraq. This includes dozens of bodies found in the first of several mass graves exhumed in Ramadi.
read moreThe War Against the Cowboys
As our old republic fades into history, replaced by a voracious global Empire, the division between foreign policy and domestic policy is erased. A conquistador treats his helots on the home front with the same contempt he has for his subjects abroad. In both cases,...
The Shockingly High Number of Casualties of America’s Nuclear Weapons Program
When Americans think about nuclear weapons, they comfort themselves with the thought that these weapons’ vast destruction of human life has not taken place since 1945 – at least not yet. But, in reality, it has taken place, with shocking levels of U.S....
Militants Attack Several Towns in Anbar; 198 Killed in Iraq
At least 198 were killed and 72 were wounded in the latest violence: Militants overran Baghdadi, Haditha, Hit, and Perawan on Sunday. Tribal and security forces were able to push them back out. In Haditha, five militants were killed and 30 were wounded. Eight suicide...
