Washington is preparing to increase US aid to Israel by billions of dollars, with a ten-year ironclad agreement that couldn’t be altered by President Obama’s successor. But that isn’t good enough for Bibi Netanyahu. He wants more. Much more. Unlike the case with other...
Pregnant Woman Executed; 57 Killed Across Iraq
US Airstrikes Hit Libya To Bolster UN-Created Government
The Pentagon has announced today that the US has begun conducting military airstrikes against Libya with the stated intent of defeating ISIS in that country. According to the Pentagon spokesman, the Libyan "Government of National Accord" requested that the US begin...
Trump Needs To Flesh Out a Strategic Vision for U.S. Foreign Policy
Now that Donald Trump has won the Republican nomination, capitalizing on his image as a nationalist tough guy, he needs to fill in some of the details on his strategic vision for a proper American role in the world. By correctly declaring the NATO alliance obsolete...
Past Time To Rethink NATO
With Democrats howling that Vladimir Putin hacked into and leaked those 19,000 DNC emails to help Trump, the Donald had a brainstorm: Maybe the Russians can retrieve Hillary Clinton's lost emails. Not funny, and close to "treasonous," came the shocked cry....
Children Killed, Wounded Fleeing ISIS; 116 Killed Across Iraq
It’s Getting Scarier
I’ve finally figured out why so many pundits and journalists are signing on to the new cold war with Russia: they weren’t alive during the last one. They have no memory of the Cuban missile crisis, they didn’t grow up in the era of backyard bomb shelters: for them,...
2,695 Killed in Iraq in July
Major Operation Launched near Fallujah; 83 Killed in Iraq
Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi said many Islamic State militants are trying to sneak out of Mosul with their families. Parliament passed a bill officially banning the Ba’ath Party. At least 83 people were killed and 21 were wounded: Two people were killed and eight...
Hillary Clinton and Her Hawks
As Hillary Clinton begins her final charge for the White House, her advisers are already recommending air strikes and other new military measures against the Assad regime in Syria. The clear signals of Clinton’s readiness to go to war appears to be aimed at...


