Within days of US President Donald Trump being sworn in, the Israeli government announced the approval of around 2,500 new housing units. Within the first two weeks of Trump’s presidency, the number of new housing units, all to be built illegally on Palestinian land,...
Ignore the Tough Talk Trump’s Iran Policy Will Be Much Like Obama’s
The first public pronouncements by President Donald Trump's administration on Iran have created the widespread impression that the US will adopt a much more aggressive posture towards the Islamic Republic than under Barack Obama's presidency. But despite the rather...
Thousands Gather to Pay Respects to Dead Demonstrators; 46 Killed in Iraq
2016 Election and Post-Imperial America
Many of us look back on the 2015-2016 election season as a surreal time of sun-glint nightmare, in which the public was stupefied that such liars, hacks and backwardness could emerge into the top rung of American political space. Perhaps, if we think of Baudrillard’s...
200 Killed in Iraq; ISIS Attacked in Anbar and Mosul
The China Missile Crisis of 2018?
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Consider it an irony or simply a reality of our moment, but these days Donald ("America First") Trump is looking ever less like an old-fashioned, pre-World War II isolationist. In a mere three-plus weeks in office, he’s...
Our ‘Fake News,’ and Theirs
I had to laugh when the “mainstream” media began making a fuss about the alleged epidemic of “fake news.” My immediate and uncontrollable reaction was: “Are we to be spared nothing?!” After all, as Antiwar.com’s longtime readers know, these are the very same people...
Heavy Fighting near Tal Afar; 62 Killed in Iraq
Protests Turn Violent in Baghdad; 31 Killed Across Iraq
Bravo, Donald! The Imperial City Can’t Stand The Truth About Its ‘Bloody Hands’
David Stockman has agreed to send every Antiwar.com reader a free copy of his newest book, Trumped! when you take his special Contra Corner offer. Click here now for the details. When President Trump blurted out the truth about Washington's "bloody hands"...


