DhafirTrial

David Stockman

 The end result of Washington’s 20-year campaign to liberate Iraq, beginning with the first gulf war and followed by the devastating trade sanctions of the 1990s and the brutal desecrations of Bush II’s “shock and awe” and all the military mayhem which followed, was to aggravate, widen and mobilize all of the latent ethnic and religious conflicts (more..)

Washington Post

Politicians who win campaigns, no matter how dirty, will almost always kiss and make up with their political opponents in their election-night speeches. Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), of course, is not your average politician. (more…)

Commondreams

An unclassified executive summary of the Senate report on the CIA torture program continues to evade the public eye as the Obama administration and senators clash over redactions to the report. (more…)

The Intercept

Nearly half of the people on the U.S. government’s widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group, according to classified government documents obtained by The Intercept. (more…)

The Rise to Power of the National Security State
By Tom Engelhardt

As every schoolchild knows, there are three check-and-balance branches of the U.S. government: the executive, Congress, and the judiciary. That’s bedrock Americanism and the most basic high school civics material. Only one problem: it’s just not so. (more…)

Alison Weir presents a powerful, well documented view of the Middle East today.  (more…)