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...
The Last Empire?: Portugal’s Cautionary Tale and the Costs of Forever War
Empire exposure is the ghastly gift of coronavirus. Not that everyone can see it: consider that the "Drop Dead Fred" effect of corporate media duopoly. Imperialism has, after all, long been America’s imaginary friend: unspoken, publicly invisible – those who dare...
UN Ceasefire Defines War as a Non-Essential Activity
At least 70 countries have signed on to the March 23 call by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for a worldwide ceasefire during the Covid-19 pandemic. Like non-essential business and spectator sports, war is a luxury that the Secretary General says we must manage...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Seven Killed
A Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine: On Faith, Humor, and ‘Dutch Candy’
Call it a "quarantine", a "shelter-in-place", a "lockdown" or a "curfew", we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all voluntarily. Personally, the first 23 years of my life were lived in virtual...


