Asking the Hard Questions About Israel
In 1948, the village of Tantura fell within the borders of the newly created state of Israel. It was a small, seaside village of approximately 1,200 residents, most of them Arab farmers and fishermen. As the war between Israel and its Arab neighbors escalated, Tantura...
Freedom To Travel Is a Right Americans Lost
Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it did not intend to appeal last month’s court decision which removed Rahinah Ibrahim from the "No-Fly list" – making her the first person in years to be taken off that bureaucratic black-hole relic of the...
Iraq Army Recruits Targeted; 54 Killed, 67 Wounded
Two Invasions – and One Truth
No bombing, no casualties, no armed resistance, no "shock & awe" – Crimea isn’t so much an invasion as it is a hook-up. If Russia’s retaking of a region it has held since the days of Catherine the Great is an invasion – and it surely is – then it’s an aggression...
Russia Has a National Strategy – Why Doesn’t the U.S.?
During the Cold War, US strategy was to contain Soviet expansion until the Soviets’ inefficient communist economic system collapsed from within. Despite the perversion of George Kennan’s original political, economic, and military containment strategy into one that...
March Casualty Figures Released As 35 Killed, 24 Wounded in Iraq
US Rejected Israeli Demand for Iran Nuclear Confession
The Barack Obama administration appears to have rejected a deal-breaking demand by Israel for an Iranian confession to having had a covert nuclear weapons program as a condition for completing the comprehensive nuclear agreement. Pro-Israeli commentators have openly...
War Party Oligarch
Is the Republican Party's Middle East policy up for bid? For four days ending Sunday, a quartet of presidential hopefuls trooped to Las Vegas to attend the annual gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Impresario: Sheldon Adelson, the Vegas-Macau casino mogul...
Targeting Iran
I am going to explain why Gareth Porter’s new book Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare is possibly the most important expose of political corruption and government malfeasance to appear in the past ten years. Investigative reporter Porter’s...


