Trump Can Break the Bipartisan Consensus by Pardoning Assange
The upcoming month will prove fateful for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks The journalist will stand trial in the United Kingdom for an extradition request to the United States, where he could face 175 years in prison for violating the Espionage Act and other...
Comey’s Amnesia Makes Senate Session Unforgettable
Former FBI Director James Comey testified to Congress last Wednesday that he did not remember much about what was going on when the FBI deceived the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court into approving four warrants for surveillance of Trump campaign aide...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Three Killed
Is America Fit To ‘Lead’ the World?
America’s most fervid cheerleaders sometimes make the most devastating criticisms of the U.S. Although usually inadvertently. For instance, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently took to twitter to declare that "The Islamic Republic of Iran is not a normal...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Six Militants Killed
The Pentagon Took Money for Covid-19 Relief and Bought… More Weapons
As the pandemic continues to claim lives across the country, new information keeps coming out about how the Trump administration has made it harder for Americans to protect themselves. We now know, for example, that early in the pandemic the U.S. Postal Service had...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Seven Killed
The Leahy Laws: Why Biden’s Promise to Israel Is Illegal
While co-hosting an interview on the Palestine Chronicle, I asked Dr. Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, about his thoughts on Kamala Harris’ promise to maintain unconditional aid to Israel. "I am disappointed of course by the...
No Dog in the Fight: Nagorno-Karabakh’s Conflict Isn’t About Us (or Russia)
Journalists and geo-strategists call it a "frozen conflict" – one of several such deadlocked disputes under tenuous ceasefire in the post-Soviet states. Only now, the long-standing battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) is anything but....


