U.S. Marine, 170 Others Killed in Iraq
My Terrorist, Your Terrorist
So is Hezbollah a terrorist organization? Of course not. So why has the Arab League decided that they are? Because most of the league's member states are Sunni Muslims, while Hezbollah is a Shiite organization supporting Shiite Iran and Alawite (quasi-Shiite) Bashar...
Comrade Michael Rubin Demands the Gulag for Col. Wilkerson
As a committed and unapologetic neocon, Michael Rubin loves the idea of the old purges once common practice under his ideological forebears in the Soviet Union. The details of the infraction were unimportant – and to even consider the need for details once the...
Infant Dies of Chemical Effects; 144 Killed in Iraq
The FBI Wants Teachers To Go Stasi On American Kids
While Apple and the federal government duke it out over the encrypted phone of a dead terrorist, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is keeping things old school by advocating that educators start paying close attention to any radical leanings among their...
Candidates, Is America Exceptional, or Only Great?
Originally posted at TomDispatch. The nuances of foreign policy do not feature heavily in the ongoing presidential campaign. Every candidate intends to “destroy” the Islamic State; each has concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korea, and...
The Murder That Exposed Hillary Clinton’s Grim Legacy in Honduras
Who murdered Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres? While the identities of the killers remain unknown, activists, media observers, and members of the Cáceres family are blaming the increasingly reactionary and violent Honduran government. The authorities had...
Sadr Plans Massive Rally; 144 Killed in Iraq
Why BDS Cannot Lose: A Moral Threshold To Combat Racism in Israel
A foray of condemnations of the boycott of Israel seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Calls from Western governments, originating from the UK, the US, Canada and others, to criminalize the boycott of Israel have hardly slowed down the momentum of the pro-Palestinian...


