Early today we reported, on the basis of reports from other media outlets and a confirmation by Nineveh Governor Atheel Nujaifi, that the Mosul Dam, the largest hydroelectric dam in Iraq, was seized by ISIS from Kurdish forces. The following image appears to have been...
Antiwar Republican Congressman Justin Amash won a very contentious primary challenge from Brian Ellis, who was supported by the GOP establishment for Michigan's 3rd district. Amash, who was significantly outspent, won with 57% of the vote. Amash has been a leader of...
The world awaits with bated breath to see if the interim truce negotiated by US Secretary of State John Kerry will lead to a long-term ceasefire. But if US mediation is to be sincere and effective, the American government needs to take Hamas off its terrorist list and...
Well, look, there’s no doubt that a robust, interventionist foreign policy on behalf of certain principles, ideals or international rules is not a tradition that most countries embrace. And in the 20th century and in the early stages of the 21st century, the United...
The military operations undertaken by the Ukrainian and Israeli governments in East Ukraine and Gaza, although frequently being represented as "anti-terror operations", in fact involve the mass killing of civilians on the ground, with US support, under the...
"There's an old saying in Tennessee – I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee – that says, fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can't get fooled again." ~ George W. Bush Those in the U.S. who are enthralled by relentless reports of the most...
Unacceptable Culture Of Lying in US Intelligence Leadership Gets Obama’s “Full Support”This week it became clear that the head of the CIA, John Brennan lied when he said: “As far as the allegations of CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from...
Only after lying about it, the CIA admits to breaking in to Senate computers. It’s an old story. After lying for decades about staging a coup in Iran, the CIA finally fesses up. The spy agency record of lies and failures is long. And now even Nancy Pelosi admits to a...
Updated Below: The Times of Israel has deleted an article from their website titled "When Genocide is Permissible." The article contends that the nature of war has changed and that "nothing, then, can be considered disproportionate when we are fighting for our very...
Wednesday on “The Alan Colmes Show,” Alan spoke to Justin Raimondo, Editorial Director of Antiwar.com to get an alternate take of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Raimondo told Alan that he felt that the far right wing has taken over Israel and that American media has...
