The Hi-Tech Threat
A number of conservative commentators, notably Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, have raised the alarm over the so-called Hi-Tech Threat, i.e. the threat to free speech posed by a censorious Silicon Valley liberal elite which seems intent on eliminating all evidence...
What Lies Beneath: The US-Israeli Plot to ‘Save’ Gaza
Israel wants to change the rules of the game entirely. With unconditional support from the Trump Administration, Tel Aviv sees a golden opportunity to redefine what has, for decades, constituted the legal and political foundation for the so-called...
Clashes at Protester’s Funeral in Basra; 17 Killed, 86 Wounded Across Iraq
John McCain as Metaphoric Myth
"Every notion of progress is refuted by the existence of the Iliad." ~ Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony "The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The...
The US Military is Winning. No, Really, It Is!
Originally posted at TomDispatch. In 2010, H.R. McMaster wasn’t the former national security advisor to you-know-who but a brigadier general and senior adviser to General David Petraeus, then commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. At that time, he...
Balance Sheet of the Forever War
"It is time for this war in Afghanistan to end," said Gen. John Nicholson in Kabul on his retirement Sunday after a fourth tour of duty and 31 months as commander of U.S. and NATO forces. Labor Day brought news that another U.S. serviceman had been killed in...
US Cuts to UNRWA Point to the Dark Future Being Readied for the Palestinians
The Trump administration’s decision to scrap all future aid payments to the main agency helping Palestinian refugees marks a new – and most likely disastrous – chapter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The US State Department said on Friday it...
Can’t We Just Leave Syria Alone?
Assad was supposed to be gone already. President Obama thought it would be just another “regime change” operation and perhaps Assad would end up like Saddam Hussein or Yanukovych. Or maybe even Gaddafi. But he was supposed to be gone. The US spent billions...
Forever War?: Lieutenant Alex and the Limits of American Courage
Alex should have never been asked to accomplish the impossible. But he was. We all were. Thing is, if anyone could have done it – "beat" the Taliban and brought home a win for the US of A – it’d have been my friend Alex. Sure, I’m biased. He was a star...
