Yemen Policy Is Creating More Terrorists
As Iraq finally pries the death grip of the Islamic State off of its bloodied form, you’d think US policy would reflect the lessons learned from killing innocent civilians and destroying the basic functions of a nation. Instead, more than a decade of using drones to...
The Story Behind the Jerusalem Attack: How Trump and Netanyahu Pushed Palestinians Into a Corner
Early October 2016, Misbah Abu Sbeih left his wife and five children at home and then drove to an Israeli police station in Occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem. The 39-year-old Jerusalemite was scheduled to hand himself over to serve a term of 4 months in jail for,...
Anticipating the Forthcoming PBS Documentary, ‘The Vietnam War’
Much has been written and many documentaries made about the American War in Vietnam including the highly acclaimed 1983 effort by PBS, Vietnam: A Television History. Though not without its shortcomings, this 13-part documentary series was well crafted, meticulously...
Mosul Rubble Begins to Give up Its Dead; 26 Killed in Iraq
Workers found the bodies of several small children in what is only the beginning of a massive undertaking to clear Mosul of its dead.
read moreHow To Sustain Perpetual War (It’s Easy, Hide the Bodies)
Sustaining America’s state of post-9/11 perpetual war requires skillful manipulation of the public at home. The key tool used for this purpose is the bloodless narrative, a combination of policy, falsehoods and media manipulation that creates the impression that...
The ‘Foreign Meddling’ Double-Standard
We’re all supposed to be outraged by alleged Russian “meddling” in the 2016 election, despite the fact that no actual evidence of such interference has been made public. First it was “17 intelligence agencies” supposedly confirmed that Moscow was behind the...
Soccer Official Among 67 Killed in Iraq
James Mattis Doesn’t Understand Iran or ‘Moderate Arab Regimes’
During his presidential campaign Donald Trump repeatedly expressed his desire not to get the United States involved in another destructive war in the Middle East. He expressed his opposition to the invasion of Iraq in 2003; he was opposed to the NATO intervention in...
AIPAC Still Our Biggest Foreign Agent
Alleged Russian meddling in the US electoral process will be the subject of a Senate Judiciary Hearing on Wednesday. The hearing is titled "Oversight of the Justice Department’s (Non) Enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act: Lessons from the Obama...
