Trump, Kim, and the Nuclear Status Quo
Peace, love and Donald Trump? I get the skepticism regarding the tentative nuclear disarmament agreement the president and Kim Jong-un reached last week, but not the cynicism – not the outright dismissal. It’s too easy to hate Trump, but he isn’t the point. In...
Why We Need a Congress That Cares About Foreign Policy
The U.S. Congress has power over two very important things: money and information. It can, in theory and practice, end a war by refusing to fund it. It can – and has – compelled the leading architects of American foreign policy – CIA directors,...
No End to the Palestinian Catastrophe
For 70 years, the United States and much of the world community have ignored the ongoing Al-Nakba-Arabic for "Catastrophe" - of the Palestinian people at the hands of one of the last remaining colonial powers, Israel. The establishment of Israel in 1948...
The Persistent Myth of US Precision Bombing
In my recent report on the death toll in America's post-9/11 wars, I estimated that about 2.4 million Iraqis have been killed as a result of the U.S. invasion and hostile military occupation of their country. But opinion polls in the United States and the United...
An Elite Coalition Emerges Against a Trump-Kim Agreement
An implicit coalition of corporate media, Democratic partisans and others loyal to the national security state are actively hostile to any agreement that would endanger the continuation of the 70-year-old Cold War between the United States and North Korea. The...
Mass ISIS Grave Yields 167 Bodies; 19 Killed Recently in Iraq
Why They Hate Tucker Carlson
No one is allowed to dissent from the official Establishment line: that’s the new dispensation in the media, and it is being enforced by the political class, which has launched a series of smear campaigns against anyone who dares question the conventional wisdom....
ISIS Kidnappings Increase Significantly; 37 Killed in Iraq
Is a War With China on the Horizon?
Originally posted at TomDispatch. There’s no other imperial tradition like it. For two millennia, dynasty after dynasty rose and fell, spread and shrank, reaching into Southeast Asia and far out into the steppes of Eurasia, its commercial fleets -- 3,500 ships...


