The future ain’t what it used to be. ~ Yogi Berra Just in time for the flurry of political theater, to put it politely, of the last several weeks between the United States and [insert European country], I had an interview published yesterday in Kommersant, one of...
Bodybags From Gaza: Is the Second Marine Division Going to Palestine?
And Jesus said: “Where death is, there a gathering of vultures will be.” ~ Luke 17:37 My initial thoughts on one of this century's most alarming and potentially consequential press conferences. First and foremost: Will American soldiers take part in deliberate crimes...
Matthew Hoh: Not Words of Hope
I was honored to be the keynote speaker for the North Carolina Palestinian American Inc.’s Inaugural Roots of Resilience Banquet this past weekend. Below are my transcribed remarks, edited and amended for clarity and length: …But essentially what we're looking at is a...
Matthew Hoh: These Last Eight Days in Palestine
I'm back in Jordan after eight days in Palestine. I was in Palestine as part of a delegation to be in solidarity with and learn from those engaged in Palestinian liberation. We visited and had dialogues with Palestinians and Israelis in Bethlehem, Hebron, Jerusalem,...
A Family’s Torment, A Dying Empire’s Rage
As I said to Judge Napolitano earlier today, I am so happy I might cry, and so angry at what they did to Julian and his family I might put a fist through a wall in my house. I think most of us are heavy with emotion while trying to understand what comes next. Here’s...
London Calling: Matthew Hoh at the House of Lords
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin A nuclear era, but I have no fear 'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river ~ The Clash Two weeks ago, in London, I took part in a panel discussion on the...
Their Time Will Come
I gave a Saint Patrick’s Day speech at a rally for Palestine yesterday. Last year, I spent Saint Patrick’s Day standing in a bar with a fellow Marine veteran. In 2010, he had been a mortar man with Third Battalion, Fifth Marines, in Sangin, Helmand Province,...
Matthew Hoh: Channeling Carnac the Magnificent
I was asked to answer some questions by a Polish author, Michael Krupka, for a book he is publishing later this year. The questions required me to provide my thoughts in a manner that came out resembling predictions. I’ve long been a fan of Yogi Berra’s maxim:...
A Message From Matthew Hoh: Support Antiwar.com
Matthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network. Matt is a former Marine Corps captain, a former Afghanistan State Department officer, a disabled Iraq War veteran, and a Senior Fellow Emeritus with the Center for International Policy. Dear...
CIA in Afghanistan: Operation Phoenix Redux?
These CIA teams in Afghanistan are not just reminiscent of the Operation Phoenix program in Vietnam, the death squads of Central America and the Shia torture and murder militias of Baghdad, they are the direct descendants of them. The CIA is continuing a long...