Booby-traps Target Returning Civilians in Mosul; 19 Killed in Iraq
Walls and Militarized Police: How Israel Is Exporting Its Occupation to the US
Israeli footprints are becoming more apparent in the US security apparatus. Such a fact does not bode well for ordinary Americans. US Senate Bill S.720 should have been a wake-up call. The Bill, drafted by the Israel lobby group, American Israel Public Affairs...
Mueller Mugs America: The Case of Baby George Papadopoulos
This is how the Deep State crushes disobedience by the unwashed American public. It indicts not only ham sandwiches but, apparently, political infants in diapers too, if that's what it takes. Hence the sudden notoriety of Baby George Papadopoulos, who pled guilty to...
1,649 Killed in Iraq During October
American Military Worship: Beyond the Pentagon’s Pervasive Advertising
Stand at attention! The flag and its song now chime amidst the sky's red glare. Hats to our chest, we stand in 'democratic' subordination to the king and its symbols… Is it just simply the Defense Department's dollars and the human proclivity toward the...
How America Spreads Global Chaos
As the recent PBS documentary on the American War in Vietnam acknowledged, few American officials ever believed that the United States could win the war, neither those advising Johnson as he committed hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, nor those advising Nixon as...
Doing Bin Laden’s Bidding
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Honestly, if there’s an afterlife, then the soul of Osama bin Laden, whose body was consigned to the waves by the U.S. Navy back in 2011, must be swimming happily with the dolphins and sharks. At the cost of the sort of spare...
Kurdish Journalist Among Nine Killed in Iraq
Neocons Hijack Trump’s Syria Policy
Does anyone in the Trump Administration have a clue about our Syria policy? In March, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appeared to be finally pulling back from President Obama’s disastrous “Assad must go” position that has done nothing but prolong...


