Erdogan’s Excellent Syrian Adventure
What’s a political strongman to do when his economy is weak and another round of financial turbulence is on the way? When political support is languishing and a series of budget-busting construction projects has people shaking their head in dismay? The answer is...
If Duterte Wants Us Out, Let’s Go
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has just given us notice he will be terminating the Visiting Forces Agreement that governs U.S. military personnel in the islands. His notification starts the clock running on a six-month deadline. If no new agreement is...
Marines, Not McDonald’s: Tom Friedman’s Fortune-Telling Folly
History is over. The world is flat. These were the sort of self-congratulatory and wildly grandiose platitudes that passed for wisdom in the first decade after the United States declared "victory" in the Cold War. Neither slim statement is true – at least...
Eisenhower’s Anti-Interventionist Course for Republicans
It should be an important lesson for everyone that possibly the most antiwar President we have ever had is the only one who spent almost his entire career in the military before becoming President. President Dwight David Eisenhower said in his most famous speech that...
Iraq Daily Roundup: One Killed; 32 Bodies Found in Mass Grave
Iraq Daily Roundup: 15 Killed; Chinese Workers Wounded in Attack
Afghan Troops Say Taliban Are Brothers and War Is ‘Not Really Our Fight.”
The world is waiting anxiously to see whether the U.S. and Afghan governments and the Taliban will agree to a one-week truce that could set the stage for a "permanent and comprehensive" ceasefire and a withdrawal of US and other foreign occupation forces from...
Anti-BDS Laws Violate Our Freedom
Americans’ free-speech and other rights are being violated by state laws aimed at stifling the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Movement against Israel’s illegal rule of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, both conquered over half a century ago....
Assange’s Extradition Case: Critical Moment for the Antiwar Movement
Last week, Leader of the UK opposition Jeremy Corbyn challenged Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the House of Commons on the US extradition request for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Corbyn stated that Assange had been charged by the US "for exposing war...


