The Rise and Fall of Palestine’s Socialists
When news reports alleged that the two cousins behind the Jerusalem synagogue attack on 18 November were affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a level of confusion reigned. Why the PFLP? Why now? The attack killed five Israelis and wounded...
Peshmerga and ISIS Clash Outside of Kirkuk; 181 Killed Across Iraq
War in Mockingjay and the Hunger Games Series
On November 21, the third film in the Hunger Games series was released. Mockingjay, Part 1 continues the films’ habits of improving upon their earnest, and gratuitously violent Young Adult novel origins. This is thanks to the brilliance of Jennifer Lawrence’s...
Not Again, Mr. Obama! On ‘A More Expansive Mission’ in Afghanistan!
President Obama has authorized "a more expansive mission for the military in Afghanistan in 2015 than originally planned". Imagine that, like the late U.S. war veteran Jacob George, you’re sent on this "more expansive mission". Your military...
285 Killed Across Iraq As Badr Brigades Refuse To Leave Kurdish Region
Iraq War 4.0?
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Let’s play a game, the kind that makes no sense on this single-superpower planet of ours. For a moment, do your best to suspend disbelief and imagine that there’s another superpower, great power, or even regional power...
We Are the Enemy: Is This the Lesson of Ferguson?
If you dress police officers up as soldiers and you put them in military vehicles and you give them military weapons, they adopt a warrior mentality. We fight wars against enemies, and the enemies are the people who live in our cities particularly in...
Rand Paul Sorta Goes to War
Justin's column will return Monday.I was always made a little bit nervous every time I heard Ron Paul – and other libertarians – inveigh against the modern practice of going to war without a formal declaration of war. Well, yes, it’s unconstitutional, and, yes,...


