What we’re now seeing is Israel’s version of air-power colonialism, writes Juan Cole.
Tag: Global War on Terror
Regretting Western Intervention in the Middle East
“Wars for oil, control and strategic dominance were cloaked in the language of democracy” — Ann Wright delivers an argument at the Cambridge Union Debates.
Ex-Elite UK Troops Recount War Crimes in Iraq & Afghanistan
Those who exposed illegalities — including Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, John Kiriakou & David McBride — were almost always the only ones punished for the crimes they exposed.
The Warfare State & Trump’s Rise to Power
While the military industrial complex seems all too natural to most politicians and journalists, Norman Solomon says its consequences have transformed U.S. politics.
US Militarism a Lead Driver of Climate Catastrophe
Washington’s military interventions are not just wars on people — they’re also wars on the climate, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Craig Murray: We Are the Bad Guys
Niger to US: Pack Up Your Forever War
Nick Turse on the the latest in a series of stalemates, fiascos, or outright defeats in Washington’s Global War on Terror.
‘Israel’s 9/11’
This is a terrible echo of the approach by the U.S. government after Sept. 11, which from the outset conferred advance absolution on itself for any and all of its future crimes against humanity, writes Norman Solomon.
Pentagon Techno-Fantasies
The quest for decisive U.S. military superiority over Beijing and the ability to win a war against a nuclear-armed power should be considered a fool’s errand, writes William D. Hartung. But it isn’t.
No Justice for US-Tortured Iraqis
Human Rights Watch has found no evidence of the U.S. government paying compensation or other redress to victims of detainee abuse in Iraq. Nor has Washington issued “any individual apologies or other amends.”