Exclusive: In the mainstream U.S. news media, the bomb-Syria debate is focusing on how the politics might play out and what may happen after the expected U.S. missile strike, having brushed past lingering doubts about the sketchy intelligence regarding the Aug.…
Hypocritical Righteousness on Syria
Should We Fall Again for ‘Trust Me’?
Exclusive: Forgetting lessons from the Tonkin Gulf to the Iraq War, the U.S. news media has mostly elbowed past doubts about whether the Syrian government launched the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack and now is focused on the political drama…
Putting a Rush to War on Pause
Understanding the Syrian Civil War
Getting Syria-ous About Peace Talks
The Risk from Distorting Intelligence
Ignoring Bloody Mideast Lessons
Obama’s Flailing Mideast Strategy
A Dodgy Dossier on Syrian War
An Appeal to Gen. Dempsey on Syria
Gen. Martin Dempsey, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, has spoken soberly about the dangers from any military strike on Syria, but press reports indicate President Obama is still set on launching cruise missiles in the coming days, an action that former U.S. intelligence professionals say should prompt…
Who Blocked Syrian Peace Talks?
Exclusive: Though the international press reported earlier this year that it was the Syrian opposition blocking peace talks, that reality has disappeared in recent U.S. articles which blame lack of negotiations on President Bashar al-Assad, all the better to build…
Dr. King’s ‘Four Catastrophes’
Reflections on Martin Luther King Jr.’s “dream” a half century after he delivered his famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial have been clouded by the prospect of a U.S. military strike against Syria, as President Obama seems to have forgotten…
The Saudi-Israeli Superpower
Dangling Questions on Syrian War
Rushing to War Against Syria
An Iraq War ‘Déjà Vu’ in Syria
Attack Syria First, Get Facts Later
US Hypocrisy on Laws of War
How Rev. King Inspires Palestinians
On the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the inspiration from King’s non-violent civil disobedience has spread around the world, including to Palestine where much of the resistance…