Secretary of State John Kerry went to Iraq this weekend to meet with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and tersely request that he stop allowing Iran to use Iraqi airspace to send weapons and support to the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. They shouldn't be supporting...
Washington Post Censors Critique of Pre-Iraq Invasion Media Coverage
According to veteran journalist Greg Mitchell, The Washington Post yanked a story of his that he was commissioned to write about failures in the news media in the lead up to the Iraq War. His piece made the obviously true argument that the media not only failed to...
“NATO 3”: Constitutionality of Illinois Terrorism Statute to be Decided March 27
Judge Thaddeus Wilson will hand down a ruling on the constitutionality of the Illinois terrorism statute - signed into law in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks - on March 27 at 2:00 PM CST. That announcement was made at the first oral argument at Cook County Courthouse...
John Glaser on CrossTalk Talking Iraq
Tomas Young’s ‘Last Letter’
Tomas Young quickly became one of the most prominent Iraq veterans to oppose the war after he was shot in the spine and paralyzed in 2004 outside Sadr City. With years of antiwar activism behind him, and a body that continues to deteriorate, Young has decided...
On Iraq, Americans Are To Blame Too
Over at the indispensable LobeLog, James A. Russell writes on this reflective tenth anniversary of the Iraq War that it isn't just the fault of the Bush administration and the obedient Congress. Americans are to blame too. While it is true that we got led down the...
1963: The year the Israel Lobby Transcended US Law
Fifty years ago this May, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opened a series of unprecedented hearings investigating the clandestine activities of foreign agents active in the United States. The investigation focused most intensively on the operatives and...
Kelley Valhos on RT Talking Iraq War
Report: ‘No More Drones for CIA’ – But Don’t Celebrate Just Yet
According to an exclusive report from Daniel Klaidman at The Daily Beast, President Obama "is poised to sign off on a plan to shift the CIA’s lethal targeting program to the Defense Department." Officials anticipate a phased-in transition in which the CIA’s drone...
Viewing State Action the Same as Individual Action
It is a curious phenomenon that misery, death and widespread destruction of property is mourned when it comes as the result of a natural disaster, or at the hands of a tyrannical foreign government, yet is callously disregarded when undertaken as part of the military...

