The ‘Merchants of Death’ Survive and Prosper
During the mid-1930s, a best-selling exposé of the international arms trade, combined with a U.S. Congressional investigation of munitions-makers led by Senator Gerald Nye, had a major impact on American public opinion. Convinced that military contractors were...
Turkish Soldiers Wounded in PKK clash; Five Killed in Iraq
At least five people were killed, and three more were wounded: Gunmen in Mosul killed a man and wounded his brother. In Baghdad, a blast in the Bayaa district wounded three people. A clash between Turkish forces and Kurdistan Workers Party (P.K.K.) guerrillas in...
The Right Will Destroy Israel
Nobody described the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict better than the historian Isaac Deutscher. A man lives in a house that catches fire. To save his life, he jumps out of the window. He lands on a passer-by in the street below and injures him grievously....
Yazidi Women Found in Mass Grave; 96 Killed in Iraq
ISIS Kills Jabour Tribal Leader; Three Killed in Iraq
How Cheney and His Allies Created the North Korea Nuclear Missile Crisis
The Trump administration has been telling people for months that the crisis with North Korea is the result of North Korea's relentless pursuit of a nuclear threat to the US homeland and past North Korean cheating on diplomatic agreements. However, North...
Ellsberg’s The Doomsday Machine: The Madness of America’s Nuclear Weapons
I just finished Daniel Ellsberg’s new book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. Talk about hair-raising! Ellsberg, of course, is famous for leaking the Pentagon papers, which helped to end the Vietnam war and the presidency of Richard...
Liberals Getting Back in Touch With Their Authoritarian Roots
“One of the unfortunate ironies of the manufactured ‘Russiagate’ controversy,” my colleague Sheldon Richman writes in his most recent column, is the perception of the FBI as a friend of liberty and justice.” He’s dead right about that, but just whom is he addressing?...


