Obama Gets More Time for Iran Nuclear Deal
The administration of President Barack Obama appears to have succeeded in preventing Congress from enacting new sanctions against Iran before the next round of nuclear-related talks between the U.S. and other great powers and Tehran scheduled for Geneva Nov. 20. As a...
Iraq Chieftain’s Son among 7 Killed, 15 Wounded in Attacks
Lavrov Reveals Amended Draft Circulated at ‘Last Moment’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov revealed a crucial detail Thursday about last week’s nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva that explains much more clearly than previous reports why the meeting broke up without agreement. Lavrov said the United States...
Nine Killed, 20 Wounded in Northern Iraq Attacks
Showdown at the Geneva Corral
Does Senator Mark Kirk know whom he is supposed to be representing? One wonders. After an administration briefing to the Senate Banking Committee, held to persuade members to hold off on new Iran sanctions, Kirk had this to say: "’It was fairly anti-Israeli. I...
A Trail of Tears
Originally posted at TomDispatch.In 2010, I arrived at Harvard University with a mess of a manuscript – 10 years' worth of research on American war crimes in Vietnam patchworked together in such a way that it was comprehensible to only one person on the planet: me....
Attacks Against Iraq Pilgrims Continue: 67 Killed, 152 Wounded
Their Hardliners Are Right; Our Hardliners Are Wrong
As the pendulum swings wildly between unexpected rapid success and unexpected rapid falling apart at the P5+1 nuclear negotiations in Geneva, media reports continue, in virtually every article, to remind us of the fragility of diplomatic efforts due to...
Ed Hasbrouck versus the TSA
Edward Hasbrouck has spent the last 20 years or more helping people travel – travel safely, smartly, and cheaply. His book, The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World, is now in its fifth edition. To write it, he traveled 80,000 miles and visited 28 countries...


