In a must read piece for Al Jazeera, journalist Paul Rosenberg examines the transition of Obama from a figure of revolutionary hope and change to just another run-of-the-mill politician: Things did turn out that way in exactly one case: the repeal of the military's...
The young and still maturing Iraqi military and intelligence agencies have "launched a military crackdown on smuggling gangs, al Qaeda militants and Shi'ite militias responsible for recent attacks U.S. forces." June was the deadliest month in Iraq for American...
Thanks to Nobel Peace Prize winner President Obama's ramped up offensive in Afghanistan, Afghan civilian casualties are on the rise. While a bulk of the recent casualties have not been at the hands of America and the NATO coalition, one would have to believe that...
Journalism is a tough gig. Do not get me wrong, it is an extremely privileged role and one that any reasonable human being would very much treasure. However, you receive no training for the bombardment of abuse that follows much of what you put out there. There is no...
The "Audacity of Hope," a Palestinian aid ship part of the commemorative flotilla, has been towed back to Greece. Despite the monetary and economic troubles that Greece is currently experiencing, the Mediterranean nation has enough funds to stop a peaceful group of...
Contrary to the groupthink so pervasive in the military-industrial complex, there is absolutely zero evidence that Iran is building a nuclear bomb. Even top intelligence officials conceded in their National Intelligence Estimates (N.I.E.'s) that such claims were false...
The United States has now expanded its (c)overt drone war to a 6th country: Somalia. Naturally, the justification was that if America just sat back and did nothing, al-Shabab, a Somali terrorist group, would attack the United States: “As the al-Qaeda core has weakened...
A common misconception of blowback is that retaliation is limited to foreign governments and citizens. If this were to be the case, Chechen terrorists would not be bombing airports and the Taliban would not be bombing hotels. The Taliban's coordinated attack on the...
Obama spent several minutes this afternoon droning on and stuttering about the economy, injecting words like "folks" and "busted" into his typically boring speech as recommended by his handlers to get the plebes to relate more to His Harvardness. Among the many things...
Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies conducted research on the costs of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan: The final bill will run up to at least $3.7 trillion and could reach as high as $4.4 trillion, according to the research...
