Unbeknownst to most Americans, as we are grappling with this terrifying pandemic, the Trump administration is currently carrying out the largest military operation in Latin America in 30 years, and has made it clear that alleged Venezuelan “narco-terrorism” is the...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Seven Killed in Turkish Airstrikes on PKK Targets
Two Years On, Time To Pull the Douma ‘Gas Attack’ Out of the Memory Hole
On April 7, 2018, horrifying images of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria flooded the internet. Appalled, the media jumped on the story and resolutely pointed the finger at the regime of Assad. One week later, yesterday exactly two years ago, the United...
Technocrats and Authoritarianism
It is important in these days of constant calls to heed the advice of "experts" on the spread of the Coronavirus to recall the intimate historical links between the concept of technocracy and the practice of authoritarianism. As soon as the ideal of a truly...
Iraq Daily Roundup: 12 Killed; Operations in Kirkuk
Washington Plans To Start Violence in Iraq Before Leaving
Matthew Hoh is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy. He resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan over US strategic policy and goals in Afghanistan in September 2009. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew served in Iraq; first in...
China Hawks Exploiting America’s Fear of Coronavirus
Coronavirus has hit the US harder than most countries around the world. A new think-tank made up of the country’s biggest China hawks is using the crisis to turn public opinion against Beijing. An American public living in fear over this crisis is particularly...
Fallout From a Navy Captain’s Heroism: The Possible Emergence of a New Idea of ‘National Security’
The United States is experiencing an upheaval from the Coronavirus pandemic that is deeper than anything in modern American history, and military and civilian Pentagon elites have responded to it in a way that seems certain to further magnify the broader corrosive...
Iraq Daily Roundup: 27 Killed; ISIS Clash in Kirkuk
What if Ignored Covid-19 Warnings Had Been Leaked to WikiLeaks?
The British court system continues to mock the Magna Carta. Bowing vassal-like to U.S. pressure it persists with Star Chamber proceedings against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange until he is either extradited to the US or winds up dead. The judicial pantomime under...


