Ten years after 9/11 the U.S. and Middle East allies weaponized jihadist groups in Syria, writes Andrew Hammond, and the result was an utter disaster. But don’t expect any self-reflection from the cheerleaders.
The Endless Failure of the Syrian War
Tag: ISIS
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Propaganda and Evidence
The wall of propaganda that towers over us, resting on an insidious culture of irrationality that has come to suffuse the American polity, is weakening.
What Next After 20 Years of War in Afghanistan?
James W. Carden interviews scholar and journalist Anatol Lieven on the U.S. legacy and the Taliban’s Rise.
Biden And His Ventriloquists Keep Out-Hawking Trump
In a series of truly chilling and ominous tweets, Joe Biden shows us he would dispense with Trump’s even minimal non-interventionism and return the U.S. to full-bore aggression, warns Caitlin Johnstone.
25 YEARS OF CN: ‘Obama’s Self-Deceit’—Sept. 29, 2015
This is the third story in the Best of Consortium News series as we look back at our first 25 years throughout our jubilee year.
Moral Injury & America’s Endless Conflicts
Arnold R. Isaacs reports on a symposium hosted by the U.S. Special Operations Command on a subject that remains controversial within the military, but is gaining recognition.
By Protecting Syria’s Idlib, US Created Safe Haven for Baghdadi & ISIS
By claiming to kill self-proclaimed ISIS “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, U.S. officials have blown apart the regime-change propaganda about Idlib, writes Dan Cohen.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: About Trump Wanting Iraq’s Oil Fields
What the president advocated was one of the most telling statements of his presidency. It amounted to an admission that he is perfectly willing to commit a war crime.
Caliph Closure: ‘He Died Like a Dog’
Trump’s victory-lap movie version buries the embarrassing story of deploying tanks to “protect” Syrian oilfields, writes Pepe Escobar.
US Troops Staying in Syria to ‘Keep the Oil’ Have Already Killed Hundreds
Hundreds of American soldiers are remaining in Syria, not to ensure to safety of any group of people, but to occupy the country’s oil reserves and block the Syrian government from revenue needed for reconstruction, reports Ben Norton.