American Military Worship: Beyond the Pentagon’s Pervasive Advertising
Stand at attention! The flag and its song now chime amidst the sky's red glare. Hats to our chest, we stand in 'democratic' subordination to the king and its symbols… Is it just simply the Defense Department's dollars and the human proclivity toward the...
How America Spreads Global Chaos
As the recent PBS documentary on the American War in Vietnam acknowledged, few American officials ever believed that the United States could win the war, neither those advising Johnson as he committed hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, nor those advising Nixon as...
Doing Bin Laden’s Bidding
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Honestly, if there’s an afterlife, then the soul of Osama bin Laden, whose body was consigned to the waves by the U.S. Navy back in 2011, must be swimming happily with the dolphins and sharks. At the cost of the sort of spare...
Kurdish Journalist Among Nine Killed in Iraq
Neocons Hijack Trump’s Syria Policy
Does anyone in the Trump Administration have a clue about our Syria policy? In March, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appeared to be finally pulling back from President Obama’s disastrous “Assad must go” position that has done nothing but prolong...
The Deep State’s JFK Triumph Over Trump
It was summer 1963 when a senior official of CIA’s operations directorate treated our Junior Officer Trainee (JOT) class to an unbridled rant against President John F. Kennedy. He accused JFK, among other things, of rank cowardice in refusing to send U.S. armed forces...
The Next Middle East War, Post-ISIS
Islamic State is in fatal decline. The Middle East will soon enter a new era, post-Islamic State, dominated by the Saudi-Iranian power struggle. The struggle will, as it has as it ran alongside the fight against Islamic State, involve shifting Sunni and Shiite...
Kurds Storm Parliament After President Resigns; 12 Killed in Iraq
The JFK Files and the Real Conspiracy Against the Truth
If you didn't believe the Deep State is beyond democratic control before, you now have no choice – not after the last minute mugging the Donald received on his way to releasing these ancient JFK assassination files. And believe us, they are indeed ancient. Your...


