Just as Barack Obama was to announce what some are calling Iraq War III, Dick Cheney emerged on Capitol Hill to scold Republicans about isolationist heresies.An interventionist philosophy prevails in both Washington parties, but not on The Weekly Podcast with Charles...
Jeremy Scahill: What ISIS Campaign Will Look Like on the Ground
Jeremy Scahill talked with MSNBC's Ari Melber on Thursday to discuss Obama's plan to escalate the U.S. military campaign against ISIS and offered a damning assessment of the administration's "strategy."
September 11th and the Missing 28 Pages of the 9/11 Report
Chris Hayes spoke with Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen Lynch (D-MA) on the secret 28 pages of the 911 Commission Report. That section of the report implicates foreign government involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Read more on them at 28pages.org.
The Giant Gaps in Obama’s ISIS Strategy
Obama’s ISIS speech would have provoked outrage if Bush gave it. Now, however, Democrats and Republicans are united over foreign war to such an extent that a prolonged military campaign without congressional approval barely raises an eyebrow. So one year after an...
Obama’s ISIL Speech: Five Truths, Four Lies, and a Potential War Crime
5 TruthsTruth #1: "We have not yet detected specific plotting against our homeland." This is an extremely important admission to understand. If there is no specific plot against America then America must by definition be acting preemptively to wage war on...
Syria Next on Hit List – ISIS a Side Issue or Excuse: John V. Walsh
Obama took to the airwaves yesterday, oh so coincidentally, on the eve of September 11, to roll out his latest "smart war." And it comes, oh so coincidentally, just before Congressional midterms when every member of Congress fears like the plague to be...
Perpetual War Is Fine With the New York Times After All
The editorial board of the New York Times has an Orwellian knack for war. Sixteen months ago, when President Obama gave oratorical lip service to ending “perpetual war,” the newspaper quickly touted that end as a democratic necessity. But now – in response to Obama’s...
Doing Business the Same Old Way
It was only an item on page 5 of the NY Times about an incident on the Estonian-Russian border. The Estonians charged that one of their officers had been kidnapped, or detained – take your pick – by the Russians who promptly denied the story. The Estonians, empowered...
Losing the Plot: Israel’s Premier To Face New Gaza Reality
Netanyahu’s war-turned-genocide in Gaza has backfired badly –his strategy has helped resurrect Hamas, the very movement he tried desperately to crushAside from being a major military setback, Israel’s war on Gaza has also disoriented the policies of Prime Minister...
Challenging the Motives Behind War
American criminal law takes a nuanced view of murder by creating several punishable degrees of it. First degree murder is generally defined as premeditated murder. The murderer has a plan to kill and has taken sufficient time to map out his crime. Second degree murder...


