Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants negotiations with the Palestinians to continue for decades to come. But the Palestinian leadership would be foolish to go along with this charade. When I was a child in Baghdad, we had a special Assyrian holiday for kids...
Thanksgiving Edition
Since I have been featured on antiwar on Thursdays going back a number of years, I sometimes try to write something that includes a sense of the holiday. The Pilgrims initiated Thanksgiving to celebrate the end of harvest and to acknowledge that they had managed to...
Iraq: 75 Killed, 98 Wounded As Dumped Bodies Are Found Across Baghdad
Tyrannosaurus Pentagonus: The Road to Extinction
A recent Reuters investigation into the Pentagon’s inability to conduct a simple audit of its finances highlights the principal reason why the American empire is doomed. When reconciling the Navy’s accounts with those of the US Treasury, number-crunchers over at the...
JFK’s Real Legacy: Unintended Consequences of Needless Foreign Meddling
The 50th anniversary of the assassination and funeral of John F. Kennedy should remind us of his primary legacy: The long shadow of unintended consequences from reckless foreign intervention. JFK's orchestration of the attempted overthrow of a foreign regime – Fidel...
30 Iraqis Killed in Attacks, while 11 ‘Terrorists’ Are Executed
Drone Strikes in Pakistan: Reapers of Their Own Destruction
"We will put pressure on America, and our protest will continue if drone attacks are not stopped," said an angry Imran Khan, leader of Pakistan’s third largest political party, the PTI (the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf). He was speaking on Saturday, November 23, to a...
Overplaying Its Hand, Israel Still Holds Plenty of US Cards
More than ever, Israel is isolated from world opinion and the squishy entity known as "the international community." The Israeli government keeps condemning the Iran nuclear deal, by any rational standard a positive step away from the threat of catastrophic...
US Officials Hint at Reservations on Final Nuclear Deal
The “first step” agreement between Iran and the United States that was sealed in Geneva over the weekend is supposed to lead to the negotiation of a “comprehensive settlement” of the nuclear issue over the next six months, though the latter has gotten little...
Is the Superpower Afraid of Iran?
"Iran's Nuclear Triumph" roared the headline of the Wall Street Journal editorial. William Kristol is again quoting Churchill on Munich. Since the news broke Saturday night that Iran had agreed to a six-month freeze on its nuclear program, we are back in the...


