After the Iran Nuclear Agreement: Will the Nuclear Powers also Play by the Rules?
When all is said and done, what the recently-approved Iran nuclear agreement is all about is ensuring that Iran honors its commitment under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) not to develop nuclear weapons. But the NPT – which was ratified in 1968 and which went into force in 1970 – has two kinds of provisions. […]
Remaking the World in Greater Israel’s Image
However they want to address the issue, most people are horrified at the refugee crisis now besetting Europe, with its scenes of chaos, conflict, and desperation. Yet in Israel, at least one high official sees in it not horror, but hope. As Rania Khalek has reported : “Dore Gold, director general of the Israeli foreign […]
Wacky US Foreign Policy
The United States has by far the greatest military dominance in world history – both absolutely and relative to other great powers at its time in history – to back up its foreign policy. Such a potent, offensively oriented force is hardly needed for the defense of what the nation’s founders realized was perhaps the […]
52 Killed as Bombers Strike in Baghdad
Bombers struck in Baghdad and neighboring towns. At least 52 people were killed.
Blame America? No, Blame Neocons!
Is the current refugee crisis gripping the European Union “all America’s fault”? That is how my critique of US foreign policy was characterized in a recent interview on the Fox Business Channel. I do not blame the host for making this claim, but I think it is important to clarify the point. It has become […]
Ukraine’s ‘Democratic’ Dictatorship
The media narrative about Ukraine – that the “Maiden revolution” was a democratic European-values oriented revolt against a tyrannical Russian-controlled puppet – has always been a fairytale, largely perpetrated by the Western media in complicity with the US State Department and the European Union. Yet now that same media is being forced to reexamine their […]
Flying the Unfriendly Skies of America
Rebecca Gordon’s piece today triggered a little repressed memory of mine of a trip I took in 2003. Arriving at the airport, I turned my suitcase over to the ticket agent, only to be told that it had been singled out for special inspection. I was already running TomDispatch and I couldn’t help wondering, somewhat […]
Poisoned Militants Among 87 Killed in Iraq
At least 87 people were killed in Iraq, including a number of ISIS militants whose food was poisoned.
Cholera Outbreak Worsens; 122 Killed in Iraq Bloodshed
At least 122 were reported dead in recent Iraq fighting and attacks. A cholera outbreak is threatening refugees in a Baghdad suburb.
ISIS Leader Omar al-Shishani Fought Under US Umbrella as Late as 2013
Abu Omar al-Shishani, the red-bearded face of ISIS terror lately described in such headlines as ‘Star pupil’: Pied piper of ISIS recruits was trained by U.S. for the fact that he received American military training as part of an elite Georgian army unit in 2006 and after, did not stop playing for “team America” once […]
