Lightening Skies: The Case for Optimism
As Americans focus on their sexual obsessions – which are curiously linked to their politics – and accuse each other of inciting violence (when organized political violence continues to be confined to the far left wing of the NeverTrumper fanatics), back...
Turkish Strikes on PKK; 19 Killed, 2 Bodies Found in Iraq
ISIS Executes Collaborators Near Mosul; Five Killed in Iraq
The Pentagon Has Won the War That Matters
Originally posted at TomDispatch. In June, Austin “Scott” Miller, the special-ops general chosen to be the 17th U.S. commander in Afghanistan, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Like so many of the generals who had preceded him, he...
A Chance for the US To Distance Itself From Saudi Arabia
The murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi now seems very likely to prompt Congress to impose some sanctions on the Saudi government, and it may finally act to end the active US role in the Saudi-UAE war on Yemen. Perhaps more significantly, some senior Democratic...
Schoolteacher Kidnapped and One Person Killed in Iraq
No Column Today
As his many readers know, Justin is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer and as a result has up days and down days. It’s a grueling process, but, fortunately, Justin is a formidable fighter. He wants to let his readers know he is having a tough few days and so has...
‘A Cruel Choice’: Why Israel Targets Palestinian Schools
Several Palestinian students, along with teachers and officials, were wounded in the Israeli army attack on a school south of Nablus in the West Bank on October 15. The students of Al- Sawiya Al-Lebban Mixed School were challenging an Israeli military order to shut...
Khashoggi, Erdogan, and the Truth
The Turkish account of the murder of Khashoggi given by President Erdogan is true, in every detail. Audio and video evidence exists and has been widely shared with world intelligence agencies, including the US, UK, Russia and Germany, and others which have a...


