How far away from warmongers’ endorsements is far enough? No, really, pressed the author of a recent article in The Nation, Bernie Sanders should tell Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to stop being so lovey-dovey with Henry Kissinger. Sen. Sanders has a...
Originally posted at TomDispatch. How, I’ve often wondered, can people who have spent their lives working in an institution, particularly in the military or some other part of the national security state, retire and suddenly see that same institution in a...
When a Russian FSB agent and a Russian soldier were killed by a team of Ukrainian saboteurs, and one of the captured Ukrainians was shown on Russian media in handcuffs, US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt tweeted “US government has seen nothing so far that...
When former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked last week if she has misled the American people on the issue of her failure to safeguard state secrets contained in her emails, she told my Fox News colleague, Chris Wallace, that the FBI had exonerated her....
As Palestinians in the Occupied Territories begin preparations for local elections which are scheduled for October, division and factionalism are rearing their ugly head. Palestinian political platforms and social media are abuzz with self-defeating propaganda: Fatah...
The global string of terrorist attacks linked to the Islamic State has broadened the War on Terror’s debate over the past two years. Today, combating ISIS not only means fighting its core in Iraq and Syria, but also supporting US soldiers in Libya while supporting...
Finally. After three years of delays and a lawsuit from the ACLU, President Obama has disclosed his administration's rules and procedures for conducting “direct action” counter-terrorism operations, including drone strikes. The “Presidential Policy Guidance” (PPG) on...
If it had not already been apparent, the net effect of the DNC email hack has been to kick open the door to a deep American antagonism towards Russian President Vladimir Putin. In what has become an old fashioned American pile-on, President Barack Obama, Presidential...
