Tomgram: William Astore, “Hi, I’m Uncle Sam and I’m a War-oholic”

Astore: When you define something as war, it dictates the use of the military (or militarized police forces, prisons, and other forms of coercion) as the primary instruments of policy. Violence becomes the means of decision, total victory the goal. Anyone who suggests otherwise is labeled a dreamer, an appeaser, or even a traitor.

Glenn Greenwald | Court Accepts DOJ’s ‘State Secrets’ Claim to Protect Shadowy Neocons: a New Low

Group of neocon extremists was literally just immunized by a federal court from the rule of law. By GLENN GREENWALD   The Intercept   firstlook.org   March 26, 2015 A truly stunning debasement of the U.S. justice system just occurred through the joint efforts of the Obama Justice Department and a meek and frightened Obama-appointed federal judge, Edgardo Ramos, all in order to More

Mary Beaudoin: Divide et Impera: Iraq and ISIS

 Breaking Iraq into three fragments will make it easier for the United States to ensure control. This is the cause of strife in Iraq. Sami Rasouli came to the U.S. in July to deliver a plaintive message about this in person: “I am here to tell you: don’t try to solve the problem of Iraq. More

Cartoon: Iraq Reunion Tour by Mark Fiore

Mark Fiore's new hilarious animation features a hot summer "I Raq" concert, starring Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Ahmed Chalabi, and more neocon war criminals parading all over the news discussing the crisis in Iraq. Read about Fiore's inspiration for "Neocon Reunion Tour" and watch the animation. To watch the animated cartoon, click here. By Mark Fiore  More

Robert Parry: NYT’s One-Sided Ukraine Narrative

Exclusive: The U.S. press coverage of the Ukraine crisis has been stunningly biased and one-sided, placing virtually all the blame on Russian President Putin. One of the worst offenders in this journalistic travesty has been the New York Times, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry  ConsortiumNews.com  May 26, 2014 As part of the New York Times’ sorry More

Robert Parry: Neocons Have Weathered the Storm

Exclusive: Official Washington’s bipartisan hysteria over Ukraine and Crimea is evidence that the neocons not only weathered the public fury over the Iraq War but are now back shaping U.S. geopolitical strategies, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry  ConsortiumNews.com  March 14, 2014 By the middle of last decade, the storm clouds were building over the neocons: their “regime More

Robert Perry> Iran War on the Ballot

Iran War on the Ballot By Robert Parry (about the author) OpEdNews Op Eds 10/28/2012  opednews.com   Cross-posted from Consortium News Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama at the Oct. 22 debate which concentrated on foreign policy. (Photo credit: barackobama.com) A deal to resolve the Iranian nuclear dispute, based on face-to-face negotiations between Iranian and U.S. officials, More

Robert Perry> Iran War on the Ballot

Iran War on the Ballot By Robert Parry (about the author) OpEdNews Op Eds 10/28/2012  opednews.com   Cross-posted from Consortium News Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama at the Oct. 22 debate which concentrated on foreign policy. (Photo credit: barackobama.com) A deal to resolve the Iranian nuclear dispute, based on face-to-face negotiations between Iranian and U.S. officials, More

Steve Breyman> Neocons to the Front: Five Reasons Not to Intervene in Syria Now

Neocons to the Front: Five Reasons Not to Intervene in Syria Now Neoconservative enthusiasm for intervention, perhaps somewhat dimmed by years of death, destruction, and failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, was reinvigorated by the fall of Gaddafi.  By Steve Breyman (about the author)  Oct. 1, 2012  opednews.com Last Friday (9/28), neocon military historian and columnist Max Boot More

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