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The Many Lessons of Ukraine War
Combatting Russia to the last Ukrainian was always an odious strategy in this expansive overview
09.10.2023
Israel’s Massive Intelligence Failure
The origins of Israel’s intelligence failure on the Hamas attacks can be traced to the decision to rely on AI instead of the contrarian analysis born of the earlier intelligence failure of the 1973 Yom Kippur War
09.10.2023
Journalism Itself Locked Up in Belmarsh
It’s not just a man who is imprisoned for the crime of good journalism, but also the idea that anyone should be permitted to expose the criminality of the world’s most powerful and tyrannical people
06.10.2023
Beyond the Neocon Debacle in Ukraine
Four events have shattered NATO’s drive for enlargement eastward. Now, decisions by the U.S. and Russia will matter enormously for the entire world’s peace, security and wellbeing
05.10.2023
Jail Blair, Bush & Cheney First
Jonathan Cook responds to Cheney’s warning against the re-election of Donald Trump
04.10.2023
No Justice for Iraqis Tortured by US
Human Rights Watch has found no evidence of the U.S. government paying compensation or other redress to victims of detainee abuse in Iraq. Nor has Washington issued “any individual apologies or other amends”
27.09.2023
US Can’t Deal with Defeat
In the U.S., the strongest collective memory of America’s wars of choice is the desirability – and ease – of forgetting them. So it will be when we look at a ruined Ukraine in the rear-view mirror
22.09.2023
Westmoreland Revisited
Given the official U.S. optimism over Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Barbara Koeppel concludes that Washington has not learned any lessons from failed wars in Vietnam, and later Iraq and Afghanistan
18.09.2023
Teaching Sept. 11
Approaching the terrorist attacks as a memorializing event on the anniversary generally avoids deeper inquiry into the historic U.S. role in the Middle East and Afghanistan
13.09.2023
How 9/11 Bred a ‘War on Terror’ from Hell
A pattern of regret — distinct from remorse — for the venture militarism that failed in Afghanistan and Iraq does exist. But the disorder persists in U.S. foreign policy
12.09.2023
Iraqi Official Says US "Offensive Weapons" Violate Terms of Agreement
The US formally ended its 'combat role' in Iraq in 2021 to placate opponents of the US presence, but no troops left
06.09.2023
"The Greatest Fighting Force in Human History"
Call it the new American isolationism. Only this time the country — while pumped up with pride in its “exceptional” military — is isolated from the harrowing and horrific costs of war itself
14.08.2023
The Dialectic of the Draft
Americans will understand themselves less fantastically if they consider the extent to which the end of the Selective Service System a half century ago gave them permission to put their public selves to sleep
09.08.2023
Abu Ghraib Torture Case Jumps Legal Hurdle
A U.S. federal judge in Virginia this week refused to dismiss the torture suit against CACI Premier Technology, a military-industrial complex linchpin based in nearby Arlington
04.08.2023
UN or NATO?
The communique from the summit in Vilnius earlier this month underlined Ukraine’s path into the Western military alliance and sharpened NATO’s self-defined universalism
24.07.2023
BP’s Wars, Coups & Dictators
From Iran to Azerbaijan, Iraq to Nigeria, Russia to Venezuela, British foreign policy is largely captured by the global climate polluter
21.07.2023
CENTCOM Says It Conducted 37 Operations Against ISIS in Iraq and Syria in June
The command claims 13 alleged ISIS "operatives" were killed
07.07.2023
They Lied About Afghanistan & Iraq; Now They’re Lying About Ukraine
The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war
06.07.2023
CENTCOM Says It Conducted 38 Operations Against ISIS in Iraq and Syria in May
The command says eight alleged ISIS "operatives" were killed
08.06.2023
At the Center of Afro-Eurasia
The future of the reborn Arab world
06.06.2023
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