Big groups on the left have told me that they will not have any time for opposing war until the elections are over, at which point they'll be happy to "hold accountable" any of the Democrats they've just reelected. There are organizations who do the same thing for Republicans. By david swanson Ron Paul Institute for More
ISIS in Washington: America’s Soundtrack of Hysteria By Tom Engelhardt October 7, 2014 It happened so fast that, at first, I didn’t even take it in. Two Saturdays ago, a friend and I were heading into the Phillips Museum in Washington, D.C., to catch a show of neo-Impressionist art when we ran into someone he knew, heading More
One of the most respected mainstream US Middle East analysts, former CIA operative Graham Fuller, recently wrote that "I think the United States is one of the key creators of [ISIS]. The United States did not plan the formation of ISIS, but its destructive interventions in the Middle East and the war in Iraq were More
By Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux The Intercept 5 Aug 2014 Nearly half of the people on the U.S. government’s widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group, according to classified government documents obtained by The Intercept. Of the 680,000 people caught up in the government’s Terrorist Screening Database—a More
The American people have been suckers for decades now, for serious-sounding men and women in business suits spouting nationalistic crap about the necessity of applying brute force in places where it is patently absurd to do so. [getty src="485626285?et=2bK7ECF5Tvhn2_dOfZhYvw&sig=fIxEY-OwWnv3mVQN3yesAwlLlAlVIM8zxQ3cnXKDXbY=" width="594" height="441"] By Marianne Williamson LAProgressive.com June 15, 2014 We have a big problem in Iraq: More
The mantra of these dirty tricks units is the “4 D’s”: deny, disrupt, degrade, deceive. By Juan Cole Informed Comment ZCommunications February 26, 2014 thewrap.comResearchers on online behavior have shown that internet trolls (people who use insincere techniques to disrupt conversations) really are psychopaths, marked by narcisssism, sadism, Machiavellianism. Professors Eric Buckels, Paul Trapnell, and Delroy Paulhus administered surveys to More
And were a wedding party to be obliterated on a highway anywhere in America on the way to, say, a rehearsal dinner, whatever the cause, it would be a 24/7 tragedy. Our lives would be filled with news of it. Count on that. By Tom Engelhardt December 21, 2013 truthdig.com This piece first appeared at TomDispatch. More
Like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch called on the U.S. to offer more transparency and accountability into the drone strikes program, and open itself to investigations of possible violations of international law. Posted by Scott Martelle Oct 22, 2013 truthdig.com Doctress Neutopia (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Two notable human rights advocacy groups Tuesday took aim at the United More
We don't know who did it, but there has been a war crime So we'll bomb an Arab country one more time [youtube=http://youtu.be/c53AitvBdhM] Syria 2013 There's an uncivil war in Syria, one hundred thousand dead Millions of refugees without a roof over their heads Proxy armies flowing in to a country open wide You got More
A tribesman walks near a building damaged last year by a US drone strike targeting suspected al-Qaeda militants in Azan of the southeastern Yemeni province of Shabwa, Feb. 3, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)By: Farea al-Muslimi for Al-Monitor Posted on April 18 via Just Foreign PolicyIf you live in Yemen, the golden rule is to expect anything any More
A tribesman walks near a building damaged last year by a US drone strike targeting suspected al-Qaeda militants in Azan of the southeastern Yemeni province of Shabwa, Feb. 3, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)By: Farea al-Muslimi for Al-Monitor Posted on April 18 via Just Foreign PolicyIf you live in Yemen, the golden rule is to expect anything any More
Drone Wars: Tactics in Search of a Strategy The confirmation hearings of John Brennan for director of the Central Intelligence Agency serve as the latest searing reminder of the intellectual rigamortis gripping the national security establishment and how brain dead we have become as a country in addressing strategy and strategic issues. by James A. More
