An overwhelming majority of Americans oppose providing any special compensation to the state of Israel in order to assuage its concerns about the Iran nuclear deal. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposes the Iran deal as an “existential threat” and retains...
Last week’s U.S. drone strike in southern Somalia killed al Shabaab leaders Ismail Jabhad and Ismail Dhere. That’s according to both Somali intelligence and Kenyan officials, who offered incomplete and conflicting details on what appeared to be a larger strike against...
From GritTV: This week's episode from GritTV focuses on modern warfare and US imperialism. Is drone warfare here to stay? It’s one of the few things Republicans and Democrats agree on. Andrew Cockburn has been a rare critical voice on the subject. He is the Washington...
Now that Iran and P5+1 – the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany – have reached a comprehensive long term agreement for limiting Iran’s nuclear program and putting it under strict inspection by the International Atomic Energy...
Once again reflecting the huge disconnect between Israel's far-right government and common sense, Israeli MP Michael Oren, who previously served as Israel's Ambassador to the United States, insisted that the US owes Israel unconditional support because God wills it...
MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)SUBJECT: Releasing an Intelligence Report on Shoot-Down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17It has been a year since the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine, resulting...
On Tuesday, I had the privilege and pleasure of podcasting with Sheldon Richman, as I do these days. Not every episode is about war, but they do tend to lean that way because both Sheldon and I are crazy peaceniks like that. Richman was particularly on fire in this...
We've gone through the paucity of evidence related to who was behind the OPM hack before. FBI officials suggested they were looking into a number of situations, including the possibility of "state actors," which led some media outlets to say they might be looking at...
And what if the whole drama was only an exercise of deception?What if the wily Persians did not even dream of building an atomic bomb, but used the threat to further their real aims?What if Binyamin Netanyahu was duped to become unwittingly the main collaborator of...
If you watched Batman when you were growing up, chances are you saw him torture someone. If you watched Jack Bauer from the hit show 24, chances are even better that torture scenes were involved. And if you watched the Netflix show Daredevil, you probably saw it in...
