Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital Harms the US
President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and intent to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is sure to harm the United States. A product of decades of pressure by Israel and its US lobby, the move is an incremental step...
The Nutball the Neocons Wanted in NATO
Even interventionists are regretting some of the wars into which they helped plunge the United States in this century. Among those wars are Afghanistan and Iraq, the longest in our history; Libya, which was left without a stable government; Syria's civil war, a...
Kurdish Refugee Camp Bombed; 18 Killed in Iraq
Asia’s Other Nuclear Standoff
With the world focused on the scary possibility of war on the Korean Peninsula, not many people paid much attention to a series of naval exercises this past July in the Malacca Strait, a 550-mile long passage between Sumatra and Malaysia through which pass over 50,000...
Starvation and Cholera in Yemen
The current war in Yemen has had devastating consequences for the population. The indiscriminate Saudi bombing includes schools, water purification plants, hospitals, and electricity plants, leading to the death of over 10,000 and the wounding of 50,000 more. By the...
The Curtain Rises On Trump Theater
The pundits are up in arms over President Trump’s announcement that he intends to “recognize” Jerusalem as the capital of Israel – and on the eve of the supposed renewal of the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process.” What, they cry, can he be thinking?! Is he crazy? (Of...
Family Blown up in Mosul; 35 Killed in Iraq
According to the Coalition fighting the Islamic State militants, about 3,000 militants are estimated left in Iraq and Syria. At least 35 people were killed, and one more was wounded: In Mosul, a family of six was killed when they returned to a booby-trapped home. A...
The FBI’s Perjury Trap of the Century
If you were a Martian visitor just disembarked from of one of Elon Musk's rocket ships and were therefore uninfected by earth-based fake news, the culprits in Washington's witch-hunt de jure would be damn obvious. They include John Brennan, Jim Comey, Sally Yates,...
Is Flynn’s Defection a Death Blow?
Why did Gen. Mike Flynn lie to the FBI about his December 2016 conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak? Why did he not tell the FBI the truth? As national security adviser to the president-elect, Flynn had called the ambassador. Message: Tell President...
