For an administration that has put so much emphasis on hunting down "leakers," it’s pretty amazing how leaky Washington gets when it comes to matters of concern to the Israelis. Take the recent Wall Street Journal story on President’s Obama’s alleged letter...
More Albu Nimr Tribe Members Executed; 202 Killed Across Iraq
Bombers Return to Baghdad As 279 Are Killed Across Iraq
Bombers returned to Baghdad on Saturday, killing dozens of people in Shi'ite neighborhoods. Overall, at least 279 were killed and 144 more were wounded. In Baghdad, a car bomb killed 10 people in Karrada. Nine people were killed and 18 were wounded in a blast in Amin....
The FBI: America’s Secret Police
We want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him....
Why US Anti-ISIS Recruitment Videos Don’t Work
The U.S., via the State Department, is spending considerable effort and money producing anti-ISIS videos and other media (actual example, left), the goal of which is to convince American and other would-be jihadis not to join ISIS. The efforts won’t work, almost...
Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin, and More Putin
I rarely agree with Henry Kissinger, our latter day Metternich, but his recent Washington Post Op Ed was on the mark: Western “demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one.” He suggested instead that the U.S. goal should be to...
96 Killed, 59 Wounded in Prayer Day Attacks, Battles Across Iraq
An Electronic Archipelago of Domestic Surveillance
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Let me tell you my modest post-9/11 dream. One morning, I'll wake up and see a newspaper article that begins something like this: "The FBI is attempting to persuade an obscure regulatory body in Washington to change its rules of...
Lessons of the Midterm Elections
After making the case for political activism on behalf of anti-interventionism in Wednesday’s column, the results of all too many people not heeding my advice showed up on Thursday as the War Party made big gains in the midterm elections. There’s just one thing wrong...


