Why Is the Pentagon Hiding the Number of Troops in Iraq and Syria?
The Pentagon refuses to disclose how many U.S. troops — and contractors — are currently deployed to Iraq and Syria. CIvilian deaths, too
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William Astore: Why Do Military Professionals Remain Silent About America’s Disastrous Wars?
Why is there so little domestic criticism of U.S. foreign policy and its disastrous wars and so little military dissent in particular?
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: The 60-Year Decay of American Politics
A personal take on why politics in America are so rotten.
Read more...Despite Low Oil Prices, Saudi Arabia Stabilizing Economy
Saudi Arabia is getting a handle on managing its budget and economy in the face of ow oil prices. That could have long-term ramifications.
Read more...Strengthening Russo-Turkish Alliance Stokes US-Russian Cold War
John Helmer describes why an upcoming meeting between Erdogan and Putin could represent a significant geopolitical shift.
Read more...Patrick Cockburn: How Neoliberalism and Cold War Obsessions Fractured the Middle East
How neoliberalism, the resource curse, and military interventions by Washington and its allies, profoundly destabilized the Middle East.
Read more...William Astore: Air Supremacy Isn’t What It Used to Be
American air supremacy is touted as key to delivering low cost victories. It’s hasn’t been working out that way for quite a while.
Read more...Why Did 51 American State Department Officials ‘Dissent’ Against Obama and Call for Bombing Syria?
A troubling internal cable signed by a host of U.S. diplomats blames Obama for not striking Syria earlier.
Read more...The Supposedly Liberal NY Review of Books Published a Very Strange Review of Chomsky’s Latest
Wading into a dispute over Chomsky’s latest book, Who Rules the World?
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: How Donald Trump Reveals the March of American Authoritarianism
Trump as a symbol of an America morphing into a visibly less democratic fading empire.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: The US in the Middle East – “There Is No Strategy”
At best, the US is waging a war of attrition in the Middle East. And we ignore the fact that people in that part of the world hold grudges for centuries.
Read more...MH17 Coroner Michael Barnes, Australian Lawyers in Head-On Crash With the Rules of Evidence
A MH17 case in Australia violates ECHR rules and has a New South Wales coroner suppressing evidence and Sky News doctoring stories post publication.
Read more...Trump Slams US Wars in the Middle East
Despite his considerable flaws as a candidate, Trump is making a serious case against US policy in the Middle East.
Read more...Noam Chomsky: How Imperial Violence Backfires – Lessons from the Middle East
How American intervention in the Middle East has produced a counterproductive cycle of violence.
Read more...What OPEC Has To Fear From The New Saudi Oil Minister
Don’t expect any change in Saudi oil strategy any time soon.
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