US Obsession With the Importance of the Mideast and Solving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Secretary of State John Kerry, bringing intensive Henry Kissinger-like shuttle diplomacy back into fashion to make another one of the periodic post-1948 U.S. attempts to solve the Israeli-Arab conflict once and for all, instead would better be compared to Wile E....
Come On Down to the Malware Cafe
Whenever anyone challenges yet another power grab by government bureaucrats to spy, harass, and otherwise push their noses where it doesn't belong, the post-9/11 "explanation" is always the same: It's all the fault of the terrorists, because, don'tcha know,...
The Dictionary of the Global War on You (GWOY)
In the months after September 11, 2001, it was regularly said that “everything” had changed. It’s a claim long forgotten, buried in everyday American life. Still, if you think about it, in the decade-plus that followed the years of the PATRIOT...
Tuesday Terror: 86 Iraqis Killed, 234 Wounded
Against Foreign Entanglements
Recently, I received an email from Rabbi Wise of the organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), who is alarmed by the Prawer Plan currently being considered by the Israeli Knesset. The plan outlines the removal of 40,000 indigenous Bedouin people from their ancestral...
Giving Afghanistan Back to the Taliban
And now we're back Where we started Here we go round again Day after day I get up and I say I better do it again – The Kinks Could it be, that after 3,000 coalition troops killed and untold (because there are no official counts) civilian casualties that the U.S would...
The Unexpected Results of Presidential Elections in Iran
Iranians voted in the presidential, city and rural council elections on June 14, 2013. The two elections were arranged to be on the same day to boost participations and show support for the Islamic Republic. The Guardian Council had handpicked eight candidates and...
55 Iraqis Killed in Funeral, Cafe and Other Attacks
Obama’s War on Whistleblowers Finds Another Target
Sometimes, it’s hard to grasp just how our world has been transformed since September 11, 2001. But here’s a little exchange at NBC Nightly News a few days back – just part of the humdrum flow of TV news-chat – that somehow caught my attention. News anchor Brian...


