JCPOA: The Deal That Wasn’t, by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
The Persian Gulf has been the lynchpin of US foreign policy. "To all intents and purposes," a former senior Defense Department official observed...
Chris Hedges: The New Rules of the Game
"Should Bernie Sanders manage to evade the snares, traps and minefields laid for him by the Democratic Party elites, should he miraculously become the party’s nominee, the game of least worst will radically change."
An American Tragedy: Empire at Home and Abroad, by Maj. Danny Sjursen
As a child myself, educated in public schools that peddled the dangerous myth of American exceptionalism, I never imagined a day when my government would separate refugee children from their parents...
Ft. Snelling BDOTE? Odious Retaliation
Using “history,” military or otherwise, to “unify” a people, isn’t “history,” it’s propaganda, in the fascist tradition.
From Venezuela to McCain, Big Media and Human Rights Industry in Lockstep
The victims of empire are never more invisible than when it is time to whitewash a departed warmonger.
The Russia “National Security Crisis” is a U.S. Creation, an interview with Stephen F. Cohen
U.S. intelligence community claims endorse a fake crisis that hides the real one.
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Twenty-First-Century History of Greed
The history of greed in our time has yet to be written, but what a story it will someday make.
Ruling Class Operatives Say the Darndest Things: On Devils Known and Not by Paul Street
What’s the main difference between Trump and Obama when it comes to U.S. arms sales abroad? As the noted liberal arms trade analyst William Hartung told DN’s Amy Goodman this week, “Well, [Trump’s] much more blatant about it. He’s shouting it from the rooftops. ..."
Tom Engelhardt | Mapping a World from Hell: 76 Countries Are Now Involved in Washington’s War on Terror
The Costs of War Project has produced not just a map of the war on terror, 2015-2017 (released at TomDispatch with this article), but the first map of its kind ever. It offers an astounding vision of Washington’s counterterror wars across the globe...
Tom Engelhardt | Mapping a World from Hell: 76 Countries Are Now Involved in Washington’s War on Terror
The Costs of War Project has produced not just a map of the war on terror, 2015-2017 (released at TomDispatch with this article), but the first map of its kind ever. It offers an astounding vision of Washington’s counterterror wars across the globe...
Did Al Qaeda Dupe Trump on Syrian Attack?
... the problem really comes from Washington’s longtime strategy of coercing U.N. organizations into becoming propaganda arms for U.S. geopolitical strategies.
Empire of Destruction: Precision Warfare? Don’t Make Me Laugh
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Bombing the Rubble