Originally posted at TomDispatch. It sounded like the beginning of a bad joke: a CIA agent and a U.S. Special Operations commando walked into a barbershop in Sana... That’s the capital of Yemen in case you didn’t remember and not the sort of place where...

Poor Diane Sawyer – recently kicked upstairs by ABC News, she started off her Wednesday report on the Israeli assault on Gaza by giving us the Bizarro World version of the latest news. In a conflict where as of this moment 86 Palestinians have been killed – nearly all...

It’s not often you can point to something written by Dick Cheney and praise it for not only its accuracy, but its insights into American foreign policy. Yet reading the recent Wall Street Journal op-ed written by the former Vice President and his daughter, one has to...

The human tragedy of scores of thousands of immigrant kids from south of the border streaming into the US is distracting enough for most people not to notice how damned creepy it is that the press has been completely restricted from touring these overcrowded immigrant...

Tensions between Baghdad and Arbil continued to escalate as 151 people were killed and 86 more were wounded. The number of dead is likely higher because the bodies of dozens of fighters are arriving at the Najaf cemetery on a daily basis now. Baghdad has been tight with casualty numbers concerning its fighting troops.

As Iraq stands on the verge of a complete breakdown into mini sectarian states, former leading neoconservative and Iraq war advocate Richard Perle made a sudden appearance on Newsmax TV. His statements in the interview were yet another testament to the intellectual...

The murder of three Israeli youth by unknown Palestinians and the less-publicized but equally tragic murder of three Palestinian youth by Israelis, along with Israeli bombing of urban areas in Gaza and the arrest and detention of hundreds of Palestinians by Israeli...

In what appears to be one of Edward Snowden's final revelations, the former CIA and NSA agent has demonstrated conclusively that the National Security Agency has collected and analyzed the contents of emails, text messages, and mobile and landline telephone calls from...

At least 145 people were killed and 74 were wounded in the latest reports. At least 53 were found in a massive body dump south of Baghdad, but there were killed several days ago.

The latest spate of violence in Israel and the occupied territories has been the occasion for anguished references to the "cycle of violence," as if it were like the procession of the seasons and no one side can be held responsible. This has never been true...