US politics

This week, the Right wing outrage machine, in part orchestrated by Trump, has been groaning about comedian Michelle Wolf’s roast at the White House Correspondents’ dinner and now Trump is calling the leak of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s questions for him “disgraceful” (typos suggest Trump may have leaked them himself. Here are some things that […]

Militarization

“Infinity War?” After 17 fruitless years in Afghanistan & elsewhere the US Military needs to Rethink

Arnold R. Isaacs

“This time, they think they have it right.” So declared an Associated Press story reporting an upbeat assessment by this country’s top military officer at the end of a five-day visit to Afghanistan earlier this spring. Marine General Joseph Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was heading home from the war zone, […]

Corruption

Will it be the Accountants who bring down Trump and his Cronies?

Rebecca Gordon

San Francisco ( Tomdispatch.com) – They call people like us “bean counters” — the soulless ones beavering away in some windowless accounting department, the living calculators who don’t care about desperation or aspirations, who just want you to turn in your expense report on time and explain those perfectly legitimate charges on the company credit […]

Donald Trump

Michelle Wolf roasts Trump at White House Correspondents’ Dinner (Video)

C-SPAN

From C-SPAN coverage, Michelle Wolf remarks at the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinn Michelle Wolf COMPLETE REMARKS at 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner (C-SPAN)

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Pompeo, Trump’s new Enforcer, Talks tough against Russia, Iran

Juan Cole

Immediately on being narrowly confirmed as Secretary of State by the Senate, former CIA director Mike Pompeo flew off to Brussels. Pompeo appears to have had three main messages for NATO. The first is that Germany and other members have to pay a bigger share of its costs, a constant refrain of his boss, President […]

Iraq War

Iraqi Oil for Israel? 15 Years later, new Light on the Iraq War

contributors

By Gary Vogler | ( University of Kansas Press Blog) | – – April 24 marks the 15th anniversary of my initial entry into Baghdad as the senior oil advisor to retired Lieutenant General Jay Garner, our US government civilian leader in Iraq. It was the beginning of my six plus years in Iraq working […]

Militarization

Militarizing the US Border Frontier for Fun and Profit

contributors

By Todd Miller | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – At first, I thought I had inadvertently entered an active war zone. I was on a lonely two-lane road in southern New Mexico heading for El Paso, Texas. Off to the side of the road, hardly concealed behind some desert shrubs, I suddenly noticed what […]

Foreign Policy

Are US Middle East Policies against the Law?

Ali Abootalebi

The American foreign policy in the Middle East since the demise of the Soviet Union has oscillated between neoliberal and neoconservative interventionism. Both strategies have had long-term detrimental consequences for the United States’ national interest and the peoples in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. Fundamentally, both strategies ignore the welfare of the […]

Donald Trump

Iran vows ‘expected and unexpected’ moves if Trump exits nuclear deal

contributors

Middle East Monitor | – – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday Iran’s atomic agency was ready with “expected and unexpected” reactions if the United States pulls out of a multinational nuclear deal, as US President Donald Trump has threatened to do. “Our atomic energy organisation is fully prepared … for actions that they […]