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What if we Gave Six Wars and No Americans Noticed?

What if we Gave Seven Wars and No Americans Noticed?

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Consider, if you will, these two indisputable facts. First, the United States is today more or less permanently engaged in hostilities in…

Was Ayatollah Khamenei right about Washington? Trump Reneges

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump appears likely to attempt to derail the Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA]), next week. The deal curbs…

Getting the Story: Combat Journalists and the Fixers they Depend On

By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - We were already roaring down the road when the young man called to me over his shoulder. There was a woman seated between us…

Tweeting while the Planet Burns: Dystopia 2025

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - It’s January 2025, and within days of entering the Oval Office, a new president already faces his first full-scale crisis abroad. Twenty-four…

Trump blasts Iran for backing Syria, ignores Russia, Praises Saudis

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump more or less threatened to wipe out the 25 million people of North Korea in his speech at the UN. Then he…

Our failing Forever Wars and the End of Democracy

By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - When it comes to the “world’s greatest military,” the news has been shocking. Two fast U.S. Navy ships colliding with slow-moving commercial…

What are American Soldiers really still dying for in the Mideast?

By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - I used to command soldiers. Over the years, lots of them actually. In Iraq, Colorado, Afghanistan, and Kansas. And I’m still fixated on…

Afghanistan: Pentagon Admits it Low-Balled Public on Troop Levels

TeleSur | - - The news comes prior to a boost in U.S. forces as part of Trump's “new approach” to quelling the Afghan insurgency. In a rare step toward transparency, the…

Think there’s too much Trouble in the World? Now Global Heating is Kicking In

Gulrez Shah Azhar | (Project Syndicate) | - - SANTA MONICA – With India experiencing its worst drought in 140 years, Indian farmers have taken to the streets. At a protest in…

Under Saudi Bombs, Yemen hit by 500,000 Cholera Cases

TeleSur | - - Each day there are more than 5,000 new cases of the waterborne disease. More than half a million people in Yemen have been infected with cholera since the…

Top Ten Ways your Taxes pay for Endless War

By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - You wouldn’t know it, based on the endless cries for more money coming from the military, politicians, and the president, but these…

Not Winning in Afghanistan: Why?

By Solaiman M. Fazel | (Informed Comment) | - - Candidate Trump in his dynamic public rallies repeatedly criticized the former U.S. president for not winning anymore. Trump also mentioned, “If I’m…

Empire of Destruction: Mosul reveals Myth of Precision Bombing

By Tom Engelhardt | (Via Tomdispatch.com ) | - - You remember. It was supposed to be twenty-first-century war, American-style: precise beyond imagining; smart bombs; drones capable of taking out a carefully…

What good is our Nat’l Security State if we’re afraid to Leave Home?

By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Has there ever been a nation as dedicated to preparing for doomsday as the United States? If that’s a thought that hasn’t…

Back to Quagmire: Beware endless US Troop Escalations in Afghanistan

By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - We walked in a single file. Not because it was tactically sound. It wasn’t -- at least according to standard infantry doctrine. Patrolling…

Syria: Russians alarmed, Washington Befuddled, by White House threats

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The unusual statement from the "White House" on Monday saying that there were indications that the Syrian regime was preparing to use poison…

Trump May Already Be Blundering into the Next Middle East War

By Jim Lobe & Giulia McDonnell Nieto Del Rio | ( FPIF) | First published in Lobelog | - - The possibilities for catastrophic miscalculation are skyrocketing in the Middle East, and…

If US Wars aren’t on TV, are all those 1000s really Dying?

Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - The headlines arrive in my inbox day after day: “U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria killed hundreds of civilians, U.N. panel says.” “Pentagon wants to declare…

Can Iran, Turkey and Egypt Cooperate to deliver Mideast from Chaos?

Farhang Jahanpour | ( Tehran Times | - - TEHRAN - Professor Farhang Jahanpour, part-time tutor on the Middle East in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, tells…

Trump accuses Syrian of Planning Gas attack as Haley attacks Russia, Iran

Trump accuses Syria of Planning Gas attack as Haley attacks Russia, Iran

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Trump administration is making noise about striking Syria, on the grounds that Damascus is planning to use poison gas again. Trump's Neoconservative…