Month: July 2016

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Strangely, amid the spike in racial tensions after the killing of two black men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota, and of five white police officers by a black sharpshooter in Dallas, one American reality has gone unmentioned. The U.S. has been fighting wars – declared, half-declared, and undeclared – for … Continue reading “How Extrajudicial Executions Became ‘War’ Policy in Washington”

News reports about the recently released 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry into the 9/11 attacks are typically dismissive: this is nothing new, it’s just circumstantial evidence, and there’s no “smoking gun.” Yet given what the report actually says – and these news accounts are remarkably sparse when it comes to verbatim quotes – it’s … Continue reading “The Saudis Did 9/11”

First and foremost, here is what you need to know when you listen to any member of our government state that the newly released 29 pages are no smoking gun – THEY ARE LYING. Our government’s relationship to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no different than an addict’s relationship to heroin. Much like a … Continue reading “29 Pages Revealed: Corruption, Crime and Cover-up Of 9/11”

Heavy strikes of fighting took place around Kirkuk.

Five people accused of spying were burned to death.

Israeli think-tank fellow Yossi Klein Halevi, writing recently in the Los Angeles Times would have American readers believe that the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement is “immoral” and threatens the peace of “the region’s only intact society”, while simultaneously boasting it can’t touch Israel’s health and global economic integration. Yet his reasoning from “morals” rings … Continue reading “BDS Is a War Israel Can’t Win”

Europe suffered another tragic terrorist attack Thursday night, as a white semi-truck deliberately ran over scores of pedestrians in Nice, France. Reports put the death toll at 84 while more than 200 were wounded. The truck driver was also armed and apparently opened fire on civilians before ultimately being killed by police. At this point, … Continue reading “After Nice, Don’t Trade Liberty for Security”

“It is now [September 12, 2001] that the world is in a state of shock; now that it feels maximum sympathy for the US; now that it can be co-opted most easily,” Blair wrote. “The report should lay to rest allegations of bad faith, lies or deceit.” So said former British Prime Minister Tony Blair … Continue reading “Blair to Bush on 9/12/01: ‘Co-Opt’ Sympathy for War”

Militants Fleeing Qayara executed a number of policemen and Peshmerga fighters.

Around the globe, the United States faces more enemies than ever before. American troops are deploying to Syria and Libya, and returning to Iraq to combat maniacal ISIS terrorists, among others. American forces are shipping out to the Baltic States and Ukraine to contain a revanchist despot in Russia. America’s navy is steaming into the … Continue reading “Tom Paine Warned About America’s Perpetual War”