War for Political Prestige: Lost Causes in Syria and Afghanistan
August 28, 2013
As President Obama contemplates how and when to commence war crimes in his impending attack on Syria for, at best, dubious reasons, it’s worth remembering that we are already at war. You’d be forgiven for forgetting. We don’t hear about this one, but the U.S. is still militarily occupying Afghanistan, waiting out America’s longest war. […]
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What the Assault on Whistleblowers Has to Do With War on Syria
August 28, 2013
Without whistleblowers, the mainline media outlets are more transfixed than ever with telling the official story. And at a time like this, the official story is all about spinning for war on Syria. Every president who wants to launch another war can’t abide whistleblowers. They might interfere with the careful omissions, distortions and outright lies […]
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Biden Threatened to Impeach President If He Launched an Attack Without Congressional Authority
August 28, 2013
Back in 2007, Presidential candidate Joe Biden (now Obama’s VP) was crystal clear about what to do if The President attacks a country that didn’t threaten us without Congressional approval – impeach him. His 6-year-old warning is completely appropriate to apply to the current president. Watch the video. Chris Matthews: You said that if the […]
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Bombing Syria ‘Just Enough Not to Get Mocked,’ Or, Where Does America Get Off?
August 28, 2013
The Obama administration’s case for war against Syria is incredibly thin. That is unsurprising. What is a little bit surprising is that they’re not really even trying to make it more compelling. As I’ve written, Obama is about to violate both the Constitution and international law by going to war without the consent of Congress […]
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They’re Baaack: Neocons Launch Push for Regime Change
August 27, 2013
In most Hollywood horror franchises we know that the villains – take your Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, or your rakish Freddy Krueger – always come back. No matter what painful death or injury felled them in the previous romp, an endless string of potential victims means room for one more film. Make that 17 more. […]
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Hans Blix: Obama, Like Bush, Is Disregarding International Law
August 27, 2013
Over at the Christian Science Monitor, Nathan Gardels interviews Hans Blix, chief UN arms inspector for Iraq from 2000-2003 and former head of the IAEA, on the Obama administration’s plan for bombing Syria. Blix, of course, has some experience dealing with American plans for war prior to UN confirmation of WMD allegations. Nathan Gardels: Based on your experience, and what you’ve […]
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Obama Won’t Ask Congress for Approval to Attack Syria Because Approval May Not Be Forthcoming
August 27, 2013
It’s been mentioned that Obama, whether he thinks so or not, is going to need to get Congressional approval before he bombs Syria. It doesn’t look like that’s going to happen, given that administration officials say strikes could come as early as Thursday of this week and Congress is out of session right now. But […]
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“Slam Dunk” Proof of Syrian Govt. Guilt
August 27, 2013
So if Syrian rebels prevent UN inspectors from verifying the chemical weapons attack, that proves the Assad regime is guilty, right?
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Iran Debates Whether to Sue US for ’53 Coup
August 27, 2013
This month’s belated official acknowledgement by the CIA through declassified documents of what everyone already knew – that the U.S. deliberately fomented a coup in Iran in 1953 to overthrow a democratically elected government and install an obedient dictatorship – seems to have led the Iranian government to consider suing America. Via Matthew Feeney at […]
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Obama Is On the Verge of Committing a Criminal Act of Aggression in Syria
August 27, 2013
I have to admit, sometimes I get too bogged down in the moral and practical estimates of U.S. militarism. Just Foreign Policy’s Robert Naiman at the Huffington Post reminds us that, ahem, Obama can’t legally bomb Syria without Congressional approval: On Sunday, Republican Sen. Bob Corker and Rep. Eliot Engel — a Democrat who voted […]
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