It is essential to pay attention to events on the ground as they take place. The US and Russia are basically cheek-to-jowl on a topsy-turvy battlefield where any miscalculation could have grave consequences… Read More The Syrian Nightmare: No End in Sight
A difficult and embarrassing conversation needs to be had about the fact that there is too much tolerance of extremism – by the British state… Read More This Is How to End Islamic State Terror – And Stop British Foreign Policy Blowback
In Britain, police are expanding their investigation into Monday’s suicide bombing in Manchester that killed 22 and left dozens injured. Many of those killed were young girls. While the Manchester story has dominated international headlines, far less attention has been paid to other stories this week involving the deaths of civilians… Read More Scahill & Greenwald: What If All Victims of War Received the Media Attention of Manchester Victims?
Trump conveniently ignored the troves of evidence that show Saudi Arabia directly sponsors the terror groups al-Qaeda and ISIS – two groups the U.S. claims to be at war with — as well as the fact that Saudi Arabia has been directly implicated in the 9/11 terror attacks… Read More Trump’s Islam Speech in Saudi Arabia Paves Way for America’s Next Big War
The parallel measures by the U.S. and Russia signify a very dangerous race to capture as much territory as possible from the Islamic State before the other side is able to do so… Read More Trump Escalates Syrian Proxy War
Media outlets whitewash extremist rebels, which are aligned with al-Qaeda and have been armed and trained by the CIA and U.S. allies, and downplay their crimes. At the same time, these same networks obediently rehash U.S. government talking points and portray Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a mustache-twirling cartoon villain, with the nuance of a Hollywood action movie… Read More A Tale of Two Syrian Cities Under Attack Exposes Western Media’s Pro-War Hypocrisy
These alarming incidents of a US show of force, or the appearance of same, are by no means random… Read More The Not-So-Grand Strategy Behind America’s Warring Around
The mainstream U.S. news media once more reveals itself to be a threat to responsible journalism and to the future of humanity… Read More Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
The war party is back in power and the odds of normal relations with Russia have dropped to zero… Read More McMaster Takes Charge: Trump Relinquishes Control of Foreign Policy
Now that Donald Trump is president and the wars continue, the antiwar movement will emerge from the shadows and reveal its hypocritical political coloration.… Read More How the Left Killed the Anti-War Movement
“In the midst of our own financial crisis and budget deficits, we repeatedly increased funding to support Israel,” said John Kerry. “In fact, more than 1/2 of our entire global foreign military financing goes to Israel. And this fall we concluded an historic $38 billion memorandum of understanding that exceeds any military assistance package the United States has provided to any country at any time.” … Read More America’s Looming War with Iran: What You’re Not Being Told
