Recently, a columnist-friend, Matt Kenney, sent me a 25-year-old newspaper with his chiding that my column had been given better play. Both had run in The Orange County Register on June 30, 1991. "Is there no room for new nations in the New World Order?" was...

The phrase "common sense" implies practical and prudent good judgment, with a further implication that the obviousness of common sense is "common" because it is shared by many or even all. For example, 122 nations just signed a Treaty on Nuclear...

Sixteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we still don’t know what happened. How did a ragtag bunch of hijackers, armed only with box cutters, manage to gain control of those airliners? How did they get into the United...

Originally posted at TomDispatch. In the early 1950s, my father ran a gas station on Governors Island, a military base in New York harbor. In those years, it would be my only encounter with the suburbs. And there, for maybe a dime on any Saturday afternoon, I could...

Hundreds of alleged ISIS relatives are being detained near Mosul.

Authorities in Mosul have begun removing militant corpses from the rubble of the battle to liberate the city.

A mass grave was found in a town captured recently.

Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the United Nations, said the other day that Iran had violated the spirit of the 2015 nuclear accord and that President Trump was likely not to certify Iran’s compliance with it next month. There is no legitimate reason for such a step,...

Once ISIS/Daesh is defeated, Muqtada al-Sadr promises to disband the military wing of his movement.

Originally posted at TomDispatch. In some closet, I still have toy soldiers from my 1950s childhood. They played a crucial role in an all-American world of good guys and bad guys I learned about, in part, from the westerns and war movies my father took me to at local...