Pentagon Blasted for ‘Unacceptable Failure’ to Reckon With Civilian Casualties
The United States has not lived up to its legal and moral commitments or its own stated policies to protect civilian lives.
Read more...Category Archives: Middle East
The Geopolitical Game That Could Transform Gas Markets
Will Turkey’s economic straits prime a big multi-country gas deal?
Read more...Why Don’t We See Headlines Touting the Pentagon’s Hefty Price Tag?
ions on how the press is a reliable Pentagon cheerleader.
Read more...The Costs of War (to You)
An overview not merely of the egregious spending on America’s wars, but also on how it is fraud-friendly, apparently by design.
Read more...‘Infuriating’ Report Reveals ‘Breathtaking Cover-Up’ of US Airstrike That Killed Syrian Civilians
“This NYT report on the cover-up of U.S. war crimes in Syria should make your blood boil. The U.S. wantonly kills civilians, covers it up, and then tells other countries how ‘democracy’ works.”
Read more...Lebanon: “We’re all going to hell”
A look at the disaster that Lebanon has become and the significance of its fractures and foreign jockeying.
Read more...Bad Biden Foreign Policy
Biden is as bad as Trump on foreign policy. The press has been absent save ampllifying the arms merchants’ hissy over the Afghanistan exit
Read more...Nick Turse: Remembering America’s Civilian War Dead
Time for the US to take a hard look at the magnitude of civilan deaths incurred as a by-product of our Middle East nation-breaking.
Read more...US Urged to End Drone Strikes After Pentagon Says Killing 10 Afghan Civilians Was ‘Horrible Mistake’
“That was not a ‘mistake,'” said journalist Anand Giridharadas. “War crimes are not oopsies.”
Read more...The Counterinsurgency Myth
Counterinsurgency is an incoherent approach to conquest that the US has often attempted, with little in the way of success.
Read more...9/11 Twenty Years On and On and On….
Memories of 9/11 and the run-up to the Iraq War, plus shaming the guilty
Read more...Port Authority Cop Who Survived 13 Hours Under Collapsed Towers Shares Message of Darkness and Light
A personal take on the collapse of the twin towers.
Read more...US Has No Intention of a Global Military Retreat Despite Biden’s Promise
The US military-industrial complex will promote remote warfare as a myriad of risks diminish worldwide security.
Read more...The Two Satans of Afghanistan – And Jimmy Carter’s Lips Are Sealed
How the Carter Administration nudged the USSR into its Afghanistan mire.
Read more...Notes on the ‘Loss’ of Afghanistan
Cleaning up some misperceptions about the US operation in Afghanistan, including the idea that it was a country.
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