Nick Turse on the the latest in a series of stalemates, fiascos, or outright defeats in Washington’s Global War on Terror.
Niger to US: Pack Up Your Forever War
Category: Obama Administration
Illegal US Yemen Bombing Intensifies Risk of Regional War
The Houthis say their attacks in the Red Sea will continue until there is a ceasefire in Gaza, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Hamas as Sinn Fein & the IRA
M.K. Bhadrakumar compares the two wings of the Palestinian resistance group to Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland and its militant wing, the Irish Republican Army.
IMPEACHMENT: Innuendo and Evidence
Consortium News‘ Patrick Lawrence will be daily covering the U.S. House inquiry into the impeachment of President Joe Biden. This is his first report.
After NATO, Storm Daniel Came for Libya
Mustafa al-Trabelsi, who was killed by the flooding, left behind a poem that is being read by refugees from his city and Libyans across the country, writes Vijay Prashad.
‘Obama’s Man in Africa’
The ouster of the hopelessly corrupt Ali Bongo represents a particularly sharp rebuke of Obama, who groomed the Gabonese autocrat as one of his closest allies on the continent, writes Max Blumenthal.
‘The Greatest Fighting Force in Human History’
Call it the new American isolationism, writes William J. Astore. Only this time the country — while pumped up with pride in its “exceptional” military — is isolated from the harrowing and horrific costs of war itself.
Records Destroyed of Starmer Trips to DC During Assange Case
U.K. public prosecutor destroyed records showing Keir Starmer met with U.S. attorney general and other U.S. and U.K. national security officials in D.C. in 2011, when Starmer led Assange’s proposed extradition to Sweden, Matt Kennard reports.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Godfather of Whistleblowers
When the author blew the whistle on the C.I.A.’s torture program in 2007, Daniel Ellsberg called to congratulate him and say he had friends at his side. Years later, at a red-carpet event in Hollywood, the “most dangerous man in…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Deaf, but Not Blind to US Decline
In Fiona Hill’s recent speech it’s possible to detect the very faint signals of Washington’s policy elite responding to the immense global power shift that is underway.