America Is Complicit in Yemen’s Spiral Toward Mass Starvation
The war in Yemen is an American war, and Americans have Yemeni blood on their hands.
Discredited Russian Bounty Story Exposes Media’s Role in Status Quo
The military says they can't find evidence to support it, yet the New York Times and others have not repudiated the reports or issued corrections.
The Russians Are(n’t) Coming!
One’s opinion on the multiplicity of Russia-inflected-'gates' is now a lucidity litmus test. Spoiler alert: D.C. is apparently an open-air psych ward.
Trump Is Not Immune to the Pandemic’s Political Death Sentence
People seldom forgive governments that get them involved in losing wars or fail to cope with a natural disaster like the coronavirus.
Killing Democracy in America
This country’s 'forever wars' have become a kind of global pandemic all their own and, like a cytokine storm, are strangling the vital organs of democracy.
Time to Stop Bankrolling War and the Wealthy
A jubilee moment in pandemic America? The poetry of a movement to change this country.
How the Pentagon Failed to Sell Bunk ‘Bountygate’ story to US Intelligence
Another New York Times Russiagate bombshell turns out to be a dud, as dodgy stories spun out by Afghan intelligence and exploited by the Pentagon ultimately failed to convince US…
Alone and Afraid: Welcome to Chickenhawk America
What sort of government continues to wage wars at home and abroad when even its soldiers and veterans balk?
Danny Sjursen: The End of Warfare As We Know It?
The future of forever war, American-style
Black and Blue
Mr. FishDwayne Booth (a.k.a., Mr. Fish) is a cartoonist and freelance writer, has been published in many reputable and prestigious magazines, journals and newspapers. In addition to Harper’s Magazine, his…
Foreign Correspondent: Michael Flynn’s Forgotten Turkish Connection
Before Russiagate, the former national security advisor was an operative for Turkey, tilting foreign policy against the Kurds.
The Truth About the ‘War of 1812’
A survey of one of only 5 "declared" wars in U.S. history, the "war of 1812," concentrating on why it was significant especially to American political party history, and relations…
High Stakes Gambling on Biden’s Foreign Policy
In the midst of what’s become a sort of progressive civil war over “lesser evil” voting in November, here’s a different look at Uncle Joe: Biden on war.
Foreign Correspondent: Biden vs. Trump on Foreign Policy
We all know that Trump’s foreign policy has been a disaster. But is Joe Biden’s any better?
Netanyahu Uses Apparently Faked Docs to Push US Toward War with Iran
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli fabrication designed to trigger US military conflict with Iran.