By now, it's no secret that Hillary Clinton, along with advisors Susan Rice and Samantha Power (then the Obama administration's ambassador to the United Nations and a senior advisor to the National Security Council, respectively), took the lead in drumming up support...
Army Advances in Sajariya as 186 Are Killed in Iraq
Hillary Clinton’s Nightmare
Hillary Clinton’s nightmare is not the sudden resurgence of Bernie Sanders. It is the fidelity to the rule of law of the FBI. The recent revelations of the receipt by Clinton of a Special Access Program email, as well as cut and pasted summaries of state secrets on...
The Effort To Exonerate Team USA for the Rise of ISIS
Assad is primarily responsible for the rise of ISIS. No one else is even close, with the possible exceptions of former Iraqi presidents Maliki and Hussein. That’s the predictable message of the State Department and its proxy reporters at outlets like Vox and Buzzfeed....
The Five Lamest Excuses for Hillary Clinton’s Vote to Invade Iraq
Former senator and secretary of state Hillary Clinton is the only candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination who supported the invasion of Iraq. That war not only resulted in 4,500 American soldiers being killed and thousands more permanently disabled,...
Suicide Bombers Stage Mass Attack; 200 Killed in Iraq
The Iraq War’s Known Unknowns
There is a lot more than meets the eye in the newly revealed Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence briefing of Sept. 5, 2002, which showed there was a lack of evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) – just as President George W. Bush’s administration was...
How To Avert Real Change in Election 2016
Originally posted at TomDispatch. It was the grisliest of stories: a decade and a half ago a former KGB man, Alexander Litvinenko, defected to England and turned on the powers-that-be in his own country, accusing its leader of both acts of assassination and, among...
Saudi Arabia Is Killing Civilians With US Bombs
Saudi Arabia has engaged in war crimes, and the United States is aiding and abetting them by providing the Saudis with military assistance. In September 2015, Saudi aircraft killed 135 wedding celebrants in Yemen. The air strikes have killed 2,800 civilians, including...
Libya: We’re About To Return to the Crime Scene
The New York Times reports that the “government” of Libya is hiding in a hotel room in Tunis: “Officials said there was agreement that the United States and its allies needed to find ways of shoring up Libya’s new government of national accord – established just this...


