Amnesty International accused Iraqi security forces of attacking peaceful protesters and Baghdad of disabling Internet service in order to prevent the flow of images, videos, and reports of violence. Government officials have claimed security forces are only targeting...
The New Handmaids of the Warfare State – Dems and the Liberal Media
If you want to know why America is going to hell in a fiscal hand basket, it's because the last vestige of opposition to the Warfare State and the fiscal muggings of the military/industry/intelligence complex has utterly evaporated. We are referring, of course, to the...
Making Sense of US Moves in the Middle East
Originally posted at TomDispatch. [Editor's note: The Jewish Nation-State bill described here was passed early Thursday morning. This article was written before passage.] The report was devastating – or would have been, if anyone here had noticed it. "Between 2001 and...
Trump Stands His Ground on Putin
"Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Under the Constitution, these are the offenses for which presidents can be impeached. And to hear our elites, Donald Trump is guilty of them all. Trump's refusal to challenge Vladimir Putin's claim...
Mass Grave Yields 48 ISIS fighters; Seven Killed in Iraq
Trump’s ‘Treason’: Challenging the Empire
The utter malevolence of our political class was dramatized in all its darkness by their reaction to the Helsinki summit: the “Treason summit” they dubbed it, with the Twitter hashtag going viral. That’s what they think of a meeting between the heads of two countries...
Saudis Destroying Yemen To Distract Oppressed Population
The excuse is Iran’s alleged support for the Houthis. The rationalizer is Saudi Arabia. The internal threat is both real and perceived socioeconomic change in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi regime’s survival mechanism has been to transmute social anxiety into heightened...
In Defense of Trump With Putin
As a trial judge in New Jersey during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush years, I spent much of my time trying to settle cases. This process involved bringing into my chambers the lawyers for the disputants and asking them in the absence of their adversaries to...


