“Successful for 14 years”: McCain rewrites history of US war that tortured...
(This article is published in Salon.) The U.S. invaded Afghanistan to ensure it “would never again be a safe haven for al-Qaeda or other radical Islamist terrorists to attack us again,” John McCain...
View ArticleWorld ignores plight of Afghan refugees and victims of war
(This article is published in Salon.) Imagine living in the middle of a war — a war waged by a foreign superpower that has dragged on now for almost 15 years. Next, imagine the Taliban just overtook...
View ArticleUS has money to bomb Syria, but not to help Syrian refugees
(This article is published in Salon.) We have money to bomb Syria, but not to help Syrian refugees. The U.S. launched a campaign this week on Kickstarter — a crowdfunding website on which people around...
View ArticleMedia double standards on US bombings – Al Jazeera interview
In their canonical book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Chomsky and Herman detailed how media almost invariably kowtow to and serve powerful interests, namely the ruling...
View ArticleHillary the Hawk: Clinton’s bellicosity in the Democratic debate sounded very...
(This article is published in Salon.) The internationally illegal U.S. invasion of Iraq was “the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country,” Bernie Sanders declared, in a jab at...
View ArticleFeminism makes the world safer and richer: UN Global Study confirms
(This article is published in Salon.) When it comes to war, one of the groups most negatively impacted is often ignored: women. Studies have long shown that women bear enormous burdens in violent...
View Article‘Your walls will never cage our freedom’: Black-Palestinian solidarity video...
(This article is published in Salon.) “We are not statistics,” Black and Palestinian narrators proclaim in unison, as they draw attention to the racist violence to which both of their communities are...
View ArticleThe real Benghazi scandal that is being ignored: How Hillary Clinton and the...
(This article is published in Salon.) In its laser-like probing into the Benghazi tree, Republicans have ignored the much larger forest: The U.S. destruction of Libya. In 2011, the U.S. led a NATO...
View ArticleThe UK apologized for the Iraq War disaster, but the US still won’t admit guilt
(This article is published in Salon.) Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has apologized for backing the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, which he admitted led to the rise of ISIS. Expressing reserved...
View ArticleU.S.-backed Saudi coalition bombs Doctors Without Borders hospital weeks...
(This article is published in Salon.) Weddings, Oxfam aid warehouses, residential neighborhoods — now hospitals can be added to the list of civilian areas bombed in the Saudi-led, U.S.-backed war in...
View ArticleIt’s “beyond doubt” that Saudi-led, U.S.-backed coalition bombed hospital:...
(This article is published in Salon.) A Saudi-led, U.S.-backed coalition of Western-allied Middle Eastern countries bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Yemen on Oct. 26. That is, according to...
View ArticleNo Syrians invited to international Vienna talks on ending Syrian Civil War
(This article is published in Salon.) Senior diplomats representing almost 20 countries are converging in Vienna in an attempt to reach a political solution to stop this disastrous conflict. Yet one...
View ArticleRewriting history: Media blames Ahmed Chalabi for Iraq War, helping US wash...
(This article is published in Salon.) The media is letting the tail wag the dog. In doing so, it is helping the U.S. government wash its hands of its disastrous and illegal invasion of Iraq — and...
View ArticleBrutally bombing Yemen is helping “accomplish significant progress,”...
(This article is published in Salon.) “War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength” was the slogan of the totalitarian government in George Orwell’s canonical novel “1984.” We can now add...
View ArticleIsraeli military officer detained in Britain for war crimes
An Israeli military officer was detained in the U.K. a few weeks ago on war crimes charges, according to reports in the Israeli media. The officer, who was not identified but fought in Israel’s 2014...
View ArticleHillary Clinton ad features “American imperialist” Max Boot, ex-CIA/NSA...
The Hillary Clinton campaign released an ad on August 2 titled “Unfit.” As the title so subtly conveys, it condemns Donald Trump as unfit for the presidency — not because of his extreme, fascistic...
View ArticleUS-backed Saudi war in Yemen fuels “largest food security emergency in the...
(This article is published in AlterNet.) A prominent famine monitor created by the US government has acknowledged that the US-backed war in Yemen has fueled “the largest food security emergency in the...
View ArticleObama administration dropped 26,171 bombs on 7 Muslim-majority countries in...
(This article is published in AlterNet.) The last year of the presidency of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barrack Obama was marked by heavy bombing throughout the Middle East and South Asia. The United...
View ArticleA discussion of Trump, neo-fascism, 21st-century imperialism, and war —...
I had the pleasure of doing an interview with CounterPunch Radio host Eric Draitser. We had a lengthy, 86-minute discussion of contemporary US and global politics, far-right President Donald Trump, the...
View ArticleDemocrat quietly introduces bill to help Trump wage war on Iran
(This article is published in AlterNet.) President Donald Trump’s far-right administration is plowing over the government’s system of checks and balances, pushing through a blitzkrieg of executive...
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