In the twenty-first-century world of drone warfare, one question with two aspects reigns supreme: Who counts? In Washington, the answers are the same: We don’t count and they don’t count. The Obama administration has adamantly refused to count. Not a body. In fact,...
Mass Executions Continue in Northern Iraq; 167 Killed
Canadian PM Visits Iraq as 110 Are Killed
Drone Operators, Not American Snipers, Rack Up the Biggest Body Count
For all the macho posturing of the late Chris Kyle, gunned down at a shooting range by a PTSD-afflicted veteran, his prolific killing has nothing on the death and destruction rained from above by those who carry out US drone strikes in the Middle East. For all...
Politicians Blame Anbar Refugees for Baghdad Blasts; 65 Killed across Iraq
The One-State Conundrum
Originally posted at TomDispatch. The SUV slows as it approaches a military kiosk at a break in a dull gray wall. Inside, Ramzi Aburedwan, a Palestinian musician, prepares his documents for the Israeli soldier standing guard. On the other side of this West Bank...
Lessons of the Vietnam War
Forty years after the fall of Saigon, Washington is still pursuing the same policies that led to the worst defeat in American military history. We never acknowledged, let alone learned, the lessons of that misconceived campaign to "roll back Communism" in Southeast...
4,811 Killed in Iraq during April
Can We Ever Make Anti-War Fashionable?
When it comes to taking credit for social movements and changing minds, Fox Business Network’s John Stossel said it best about those in power, “Government is like the person who gets in front of a parade and pretends to lead it.” Meaning when the people start to...


