The origin of the Ukraine crisis is consistently reported in the West as an unfortunate and unpopular choice by President Viktor Yanukovych to go with an economic alliance with Russia over the economic alliance offered by the European Union. The package offered by the...

At least 90 were killed in recent violence across Iraq. Two of the wounded were Anbar officials.

We (the co-founders of Downsize DC) made bold predictions prior to the Iraq war in 2003. You can still see them at TruthAboutWar.org. We got things right, when nearly everyone else was wrong. We even predicted in advance that Iraq had no nuclear weapons. How did we do...

At least 139 were killed across Iraq, but the number is likely much higher. An airstrike took out a munitions cache in Ramadi. The number of dead there is unreported.

In the country’s last election, the Islamist-leaning Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lost its majority in parliament. Though it retained a plurality of seats, it was the party’s biggest setback since coming to power at the...

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Fourteen years later and do you even believe it? Did we actually live it? Are we still living it? And how improbable is that? Fourteen years of wars, interventions, assassinations, torture, kidnappings, black sites, the growth of the...

At least 189 people were killed across Iraq. Turkish forces penetrated the border in northern Iraq. Militants executed a number of people in Mosul, And, an important official was kidnapped in Baghdad.

Oftentimes when the U.S. superpower intervenes in the business of other nations, after US troops withdraw, the American people lose interest and the country disappears from the consciousness of the public. For example, after the Vietnam War in the 1970s, the exhausted...

At least 47 were killed across Iraq today. Scores more were kidnapped for violating ISIS laws or to be forced into service.