The Obama administration has lied again, with the news in recent weeks that US forces would remain in Iraq beyond the December deadline for all American troops to withdraw. They strong-armed the Iraqi leadership (who relishes their client state status in contravention...
Last week, Jamie Weinstein of the conservative Daily Caller, who I tangoed with over the motivations behind 9/11, wrote a scandalous piece entitled, "Palestinian ambassador reiterates call for a Jew-free Palestinian state." The ambassador in question was Maen Rashid...
The piece I wrote for the Daily Caller was in response to a piece by Jamie Weinstein, the senior editor there, in which Weinstein denies aggressive US foreign policy had anything to do with the motivations behind 9/11. I relished in an evidence-based response, but to...
The big-money rent-seekers in the military industrial complex have been lobbying hard against cuts to the defense budgets. The so-called "super-committee" - the group of representatives tasked with deciding where to cut - have been the target for that lobbying....
In a recent interview on Hardtalk, former Secretary of Homeland Security (and co-author of the PATRIOT Act) Michael Chertoff was asked about extraordinary rendition and why the US government sent captured detainees to other countries known for widespread torture. Not...
The contradictions and the lies that are the foundation for the intervention in Libya are so numerous it's hard to keep track, and can be even harder to write about over and over and over again. But today's headlines gave me another opportunity... September 14,...
I want to draw special attention to today's Gareth Porter piece, which essentially describes a post-9/11 US foreign policy directly aimed at exacerbating the terrorist threat and convincing the Muslim world that America is against them. What's worse, much of the...
Radley Balko, simply one of the best journalists around, has a new piece up at the Huffington Post on the militarization of domestic police departments, especially since 9/11. Unsurprisingly, the numbers show the terrorist attacks served merely as a pretext for the...
The 9/11 attacks are being corrupted into ideological propaganda to serve the nationalistic fervor so cherished by those who want to crowd out dissent and sober thinking. There are lots of reasons for it, but one of the consequences is that people are not able to have...
What Palestinians living under occupation face on a daily basis is often overlooked. There is this entirely false conception popular among Joe Smoes as well as policy wonks that the conflict consists of two equal sides and an elusive solution. Elliot Abrams, senior...
