John Bolton Wants To Protect Africa From ‘Predatory’ Chinese Behavior. What About Washington’s?
John Bolton’s recent unveiling of the Trump Administration’s “Prosper Africa” plan did what is typical of such U.S. foreign policy announcements. It performed the balancing act of admitting motives to protect vague “US interests” while...
FBI and CIA’s ‘Duty To Warn’ Victims of Israeli Nuclear Smuggling
In 2015 the intelligence community acknowledged that it had a "duty to warn" U.S. persons of impending threats of "serious bodily injury." The objective of that "duty" – which has many loopholes – is to compel intelligence agencies to...
A Question Every American Must Confront: Apartheid Israel or US Democracy?
Bahia Amawai is a US citizen and Texas-based language specialist who helps autistic and speech-impaired children overcome their impairment. Despite the essential and noble nature of her work, she was fired by the Pflugerville Independent School District, which serves...
Bring the Troops Home, But Also Stop the Bombing
As our nation debates the merits of President Donald Trump's call for withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria and Afghanistan, absent from the debate is the more pernicious aspect of US military involvement overseas: its air wars. Trump's announcement and General James...
Good Riddance to General Mattis and the Rest of Washington’s Mad Dogs of War
From the wailing and gnashing of teeth among the mainstream media and officialdom over General Mattis' (welcome) departure, you would think that the Rapture had come and Washington's ruling class was being unjustly left behind to eternal perdition. And if not that,...
Troops Out of Syria and Afghanistan? That’s a Good Start!
We all had a big shock this week when, seemingly out of the blue, President Trump announced that he was removing US troops from Syria and would draw down half of the remaining US troops in Afghanistan. The president told us the troops were in Syria to fight ISIS and...
ISIS Kidnaps Two Dozen; Six Killed in Iraq
Two dozen people were kidnapped from three locations in northern Iraq. Also, a vehicle bombing targeted a Turkmen city.
read moreRinging in a New Year of War
Originally posted at TomDispatch. On December 9th, the Washington Post covered Donald Trump's offhand, if long expected, announcement of the ousting of retired Marine General John Kelly from an embattled White House. Its report focused on the chief of staff’s...
We Can End the US War on Syria
The US war against Syria was one that people almost stopped. President Obama was unable to get Congress to authorize the war in 2013, but the Pentagon and foreign policy establishment, who have long wanted to control Syria, pushed forward with war anyway. It has been...
