No matter how one attempts to wrangle with the so-called ‘Islamic State’ (IS) rise in Iraq and Syria, desperately seeking any political or other context that would validate the movement as an explainable historical circumstance, things...
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17 March 2015
Last time, they committed treason to prolong a war.
This time, they’re apparently trying to start one....
The backstabbing letter sent by 47 Republican members of Congress warning Iran off a possible nuclear weapons...
10 March 2015
If U.S. television and politicians started saying that Saudi Arabia should be bombed because it kills and tortures innocent people, within a week many millions of Americans would demand just that. And because those voices do say that...
28 February 2015
U.S. drone "pilots" refer to people they burn to death in places like Pakistan as "bug splat" because they look like bugs being squished to death on the pilots' video monitors and because it's easier to murder bugs than humans.
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28 February 2015
As media ownership converges and technology “unites” us, the concept of national identity grows ever easier to exploit — and therefore, I fear, increasingly, and dangerously, simplistic.
This is the war on terror. This is the war...
28 February 2015
Cities and states across the United States have been taking various actions against drones, while the federal government rolls ahead with...
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