While the debate over Seymour Hersh's London Review of Books piece goes on, one detail of his reporting has been little mentioned: the scapegoating of Dr. Shakil Afridi as the man who supposedly identified Osama bin Laden to the CIA, a story put out there by the US –...

Jeb Bush has spent the week debating with himself over whether he would have started the war his brother launched on Iraq. When he figures it out, hopefully, our would-be president will focus in on the campaign to drag us into yet another Mideast war – this time to...

Originally posted at TomDispatch. In September 2001, the Bush administration launched its “global war on terror,” to which its supporters later tried to attach names like “the long war” or “World War IV.” Their emphasis: that we...

Many of us have heard the song, most of those probably know its famous backstory: “Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming/We’re finally on our own/This summer I hear the drumming/Four dead in Ohio” sang Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young in 1971. The Kent State shootings – done...

In Baghdad, over 30 people were arrested after rumors of a suicide bomber triggered riots in Adhamiya; several buildings were set on fire, including one belonging to the Sunni Endowment.

As America recently learned of the unintended deaths of its citizens from a CIA drone strike, it should reflect on the death warrant issued without due process for two other Americans, one that killed American citizen Anwar al-Awalki, a drone strike that ignored his...

A decision last week about NSA spying by a panel of judges on the United States Court of Appeals in New York City sent shock waves through the government. The court ruled that a section of the Patriot Act that is due to expire at the end of this month and on which the...

In the Greek myth, Heracles battles the Hydra – a multi-headed reptilian monster that was terrorizing the Greek countryside. However, every time a head was cut off, two grew in its place, so cutting off one head at a time was an ineffective plan of attack....

Iraqi officials say that a top Islamic State militant was killed in an airstrike in al-Iyadhiya, near Tal Afar; however, the U.S. military denied bombing the location where he was allegedly killed. Abdul Rahman Mustafa Mohammed (A.K.A. Abu Alaa al-Afri) is thought to...

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Soon after 9/11, Ann Jones went to Afghanistan to help in whatever way she could, “embedding” with civilians who had been battered by the rigors of that war-torn land. Out of that experience, especially dealing with the...