Who Is Afraid of the Iranian Bomb?
I hate self-evident truths. Ideals may be self-evident. Political statements are not. When I hear about a self-evident political truth, I immediately doubt it. The most self-evident political truth at this moment concerns Iran. Iran is our deadly enemy. Iran wants to...
Reining in the Ubiquitous Use of Military Force
Four US soldiers died in Niger on October 4, and the president's insensitive phone call to the widow of one has brought the subject of the military in every corner of the world back in the news. The UN has 193 members. The US has over 240,000 troops in at least 172 of...
Town of Qaim Close to Liberation; 60 Killed in Iraq
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...


