On Tuesday, The New York Times published what appeared at first to be a troubling update on the state of Iran’s nuclear program. In a piece headlined “Iran’s Nuclear Stockpile Grows, Complicating Negotiations,” the paper’s chief Washington correspondent David E....
In a recent TV ad, a van snakes its way through an American city. As the driver fiddles with the radio dial, dire warnings about the perils of a “nuclear Iran” spill out of the speaker from Senator Lindsey Graham and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Three weeks ago was Naqba Day – the day on which Palestinians inside and outside Israel commemorate their "catastrophe" – the exodus of more than half of the Palestinian people from the territories occupied by Israel in the 1948 war. Each side has...
We now have a fourth branch of government. As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this fourth branch came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum, and yet it possesses superpowers, above and...
Originally posted at TomDispatch. It’s been an incredibly quiet show. In recent years, the U.S. military has moved onto the African continent in a big way – and essentially, with the exception of Nick Turse (and Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post), just about...
Remember that "imminent" Russian invasion of Ukraine that was supposed to take place over a year ago? Well, it's still "imminent"! President Poroshenko has just announced that the Russians are about to undertake a "full-scale" invasion of his country and that...
In the final phase of the negotiations with Iran, the US-led international coalition is still seeking Iran’s agreement to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to visit any military facilities it deems suspicious and to interview a selected list of...
For the past month, the media has managed to remember the fact that the Iraq war was bad. Or rather, would-be and official candidates for the 2016 presidency are being asked about their stance on that war, and whether they would have supported it at the time. This is...
That question, which has bedeviled U.S. experts on the Middle East, may need updating to read: Who rises when Assad falls? For the war is going badly for Bashar Assad, whose family has ruled Syria since Richard Nixon was president. Assad's situation seems more...
