Originally posted at TomDispatch. It turns out that I can thank former Army colonel and historian Andrew Bacevich for the fact that U.S. Army Major Danny Sjursen began his article-writing career at TomDispatch. That was in February 2017. His first piece was headlined...
Defeating the Counterrevolution
It was a close call. We barely escaped losing our old republic and succumbing to rule by an unelected bureaucracy of intelligence officials. A “special counsel” – a creature with not a lick of constitutional legitimacy – was given de facto unlimited power and...
How the US Navy Sold the Vietnam War
Dr. Tom Dooley, whose best-selling book Deliver Us From Evil helped create a favorable climate of opinion for U.S. intervention in South Vietnam, has long been linked to legendary CIA officer Edward G. Lansdale and his black operations in Vietnam between 1954 and...
179 Killed or Found Dead in Iraq During March
ISIS Ambushes Security Personnel; Four Killed in Iraq
Six Militants Killed in Iraq Clashes
Pelosi and McConnell Are Inching Us Closer to Nuclear War
When Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell teamed up to invite NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to address a joint session of Congress, they had every reason to expect the April 3 speech to be a big hit with U.S. media and political elites. The establishment is...
A Cruel, Costly, and Anxious ‘Cold’ War
This article originally appeared at TruthDig. Nothing is inevitable. Not war, not peace. Those writers and politicians who tell readers or constituents otherwise are selling snake oil. So it is, oftentimes, with proclamations about the Cold War. Americans have been...
Let’s Declare Victory
As Justin is experiencing side effects of his resumed Keytruda treatment, we are taking this opportunity to run this classic column from November 2001. That’s quite a while ago – and it’s message is (sadly) still as pertinent today as then! The military campaign...
US Recognition of Israel’s Golan Annexation a Threat to World Order
The Trump Administration’s decision to recognize Israel’s illegal annexation of the Golan Heights – Syrian territory seized in the June 1967 war – marks a serious violation of fundamental principles of international law. The inadmissibility of any country...


