First they said the downing of Russian Metrojet Flight 9268 was most likely due to Russia’s “notorious” regional airlines, which supposedly are rickety and unreliable. The Egyptian government denied that terrorism is even a possibility, with Egyptian despot Abdel...
Originally posted at TomDispatch. In an effort to attack Taliban fighters, an air strike by a U.S. plane killed dozens of civilians in Kunduz, Afghanistan. In the wake of the attack, an American general responded in unequivocal fashion. “I take this possible...
The head of the Khalidiya district council, Ali Daoud, said that about 500 people have been arrested and put into secret prisons since the militants took over Ramadi. At least 129 were killed and 46 were wounded in recent attacks and battles: In Mosul, Coalition...
For that slice of the American public that still depends heavily on major daily newspapers as their main source of news, they might not even know that the on-line publication The Intercept has published a package of alarming drone-assassination articles based on...
The self-inflicted wounds of Hillary Rodham Clinton just keep manifesting themselves. She has two serious issues that have arisen in the past week; one is political and the other is legal. Both have deception at their root. Her political problem is one of credibility....
If there’s a lesson to be drawn from the November 1 Turkish elections, it’s that fear works, and there are few people better at engendering it than Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Only five months after his Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost...
At least 59 were killed and 14 were wounded in new attacks: In Baghdad, a bomb killed one person and wounded eight more. Two people were killed and six were wounded in a separate bombing. An oil ministry official was kidnapped and then rescued. Forty militants were...
"Even war has rules," said Doctors Without Borders head Dr. Joanne Liu as part of her response to the devastating US bombing of the organization's hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan earlier this October. After a series of different explanations and excuses – four...
The death of Ahmed Chalabi, of a heart attack at age 71, brings back memories. It conjures Judith Miller’s byline above New York Times “news” articles – often on the front page – detailing Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction,” which, we were told, were...
