In March of 2007, former FBI agent and freelance investigator Robert Levinson traveled to the Iranian island of Kish, a resort hangout for smugglers and various dubious characters as well as tourists – and promptly vanished. For years, the US government stoutly...
Journalist Among 37 Killed in Iraq, 62 More Wounded
Bomb Targets Pilgrims; 34 Killed, 43 Wounded Across Iraq
46 Killed, 56 Wounded Across Iraq, As Iranian Gas Workers Massacred
Are the Senkakus Worth a War?
"The U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty of 1960 obligates the United States to treat any armed attack against any territories under the administration of Japan as dangerous to [America's] own peace and safety. This would cover such islets as the Senkakus also claimed...
Goliath: The Book That May Delegitimize Israel’s Apartheid State
Thanks to the Israel lobby’s slander campaign against Max Blumenthal and his new book, Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, I not only learned things about the Jewish state that I never knew, I also made a wonderful discovery – but more about that later. I...
The Long Retreat
One of the pitfalls of writing history is that things that happened tend to seem inevitable in retrospect. Coupled with wishful thinking, this can lead to a dialectic mindset, in which the course of human events seems preordained somehow. The "end of history" wasn't...
Suicide Bomber Attacks Police; 22 Killed, 30 Wounded Across Iraq
Congress Scares the People
Terrorism has become as all-American as apple pie. It is ingrained in our civic DNA, it fills our newspapers and is the backstory for every foreign policy discussion on talk radio and television. One might reasonably expect that American mothers might now cajole their...
A Conspiracy So Vast
Readers of this site are well aware of the revelations during the past six months of spying by the National Security Agency (NSA). Edward Snowden, a former employee of an NSA vendor, risked his life and liberty to inform us of a governmental conspiracy to violate our...


