Iraq Daily Roundup: Mortar Attack on Soccer Game; 31 Killed Across Iraq
New Study: China Would Beat US Military in Pacific
The United States Studies Centre (USSC), a research center based at the University of Sydney in Australia, released a study titled, "Averting Crisis: American Strategy, Military Spending and Collective Defence in the Indo-Pacific." The study makes the...
Stop Pretending: Washington and Kabul Never (Really) Controlled Rural Afghanistan
Here we go again. The typically underreported non-news of Orwellian America. This week, two more U.S. soldiers – Green Berets – were killed in a firefight with the Taliban in Faryab province, just another hopeless corner of rural Afghanistan. The two posthumously...
Giving Government Permanent Authority To Spy on Everyone in America
While most of us have been thinking about the end of summer and while the political class frets over the Democratic presidential debates and the aborted visit of two members of Congress to Israel, the Trump administration has quietly moved to extend and make permanent...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Nine Killed in Attacks Across Iraq
What Is the US Role in the Hong Kong Protests?
I first met Jason Lee when he was promoting jazz concerts in his hometown of Hong Kong. More recently, he has been sending me Facebook messages about the Hong Kong protests. You would think that a relatively prosperous, 43-year-old Hong Konger would support the...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Bombing South of Baghdad; Four Killed in Iraq
Iraq Daily Roundup: Diyala Province Focus of Attacks; Eight Killed in Iraq
Jewish Settlers Rule the Roost in Israel, But at What Price?
Israeli Jewish settlers are on a rampage in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. While settler violence is part of everyday routine in Palestine, the violence of recent weeks is directly linked to the general elections in Israel, scheduled to be held on September 17....


