Saudi Arabia has perpetrated a mass execution that puts ISIS’s beach beheadings to shame. Forty-seven heads rolled on Saturday. One of them belonged to Nimr al-Nimr, a revered Shi’ite cleric who had been sentenced to death for sermons in which he criticized the government (especially for its persecution of the country’s Shi’ite minority). His brother … Continue reading “The Saudis Go Full ISIS”
Dan Sanchez
Happy 20th, Antiwar.com
Antiwar.com is twenty years old this month! After two decades, it holds firm as a principled, wide-reaching voice for peace. None of its haters in the war party have managed to even intimidate Antiwar.com, much less eliminate it: not the post-9/11 war fever witch hunts, not the FBI, not even the Google-gon. This is cause … Continue reading “Happy 20th, Antiwar.com”
War Is Realizing the Israelizing of the World
As US-driven wars plummet the Muslim world ever deeper into jihadi-ridden failed state chaos, events seem to be careening toward a tipping point. Eventually, the region will become so profuse a font of terrorists and refugees, that Western popular resistance to “boots on the ground” will be overwhelmed by terror and rage. Then, the US-led empire will … Continue reading “War Is Realizing the Israelizing of the World”
The Road to Galactic Serfdom
Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters this week, continuing the cinematic saga of an interplanetary civilization’s struggles with galactic war and tyranny. It will be watched by millions whose own civilization is beset by global warfare driven by a planetary empire on the verge of descending into a militarized police state. So now would … Continue reading “The Road to Galactic Serfdom”
Trump Stumps for ISIS
Since ISIS rose to conquest in Syria and Iraq, then turning its deadly attention westward, it (with the help of its government and media accomplices) has unleashed a fresh flood of terror, which the people of the West have, unresisting, let wash over them. In America, Donald Trump has tapped that terror to fuel the … Continue reading “Trump Stumps for ISIS”
The Long Game for the Long War
Fourteen years in, and the Terror War is raging on, mass-producing exactly what it was supposed to eliminate: terrorism and chaos. Western intervention has racked up at least six jihadi-overrun failed states throughout the Greater Middle East: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen. The scope and scale of the imposed civilizational meltdown have become … Continue reading “The Long Game for the Long War”
Get Rid of ISIS Using This One Weird Trick
You’ve seen those internet ads that offer “one weird trick” for eliminating belly fat or boosting testosterone, right? Well, here’s one weird trick for getting rid of ISIS and boosting our security from terrorism. The “trick” is non-intervention. And it is only weird in the sense that it is so uncommon in this age of … Continue reading “Get Rid of ISIS Using This One Weird Trick”
Nothing to Fear But the Fearful Themselves
When I first learned of the recent attacks in Paris, a chill went down my spine. “No,” I thought, “This is all happening too fast.” I was terrified. I was not terrorized, mind you. What happened in Paris was tragic, of course. But I was not so ignorant and innumerate as to think the kind … Continue reading “Nothing to Fear But the Fearful Themselves”
Turkey, Russia, and the Fallacy of ‘Collective Security’
Blackadder: You see, Baldrick, in order to prevent war in Europe, two superblocs developed: us, the French and the Russians on one side, and the Germans and Austro-Hungary on the other. The idea was to have two vast opposing armies, each acting as the other’s deterrent. That way there could never be a war. Baldrick: … Continue reading “Turkey, Russia, and the Fallacy of ‘Collective Security’”
They Sow the Cyclone – We Reap the Blowback
“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind” — Hosea 8:7 It may be surprising to hear, but it is a plain historical fact that modern international jihad originated as an instrument of US foreign policy. The “great menace of our era” was built up by the CIA to wage a proxy war … Continue reading “They Sow the Cyclone – We Reap the Blowback”