Saturday, April 18, 2026

Obama Says US Won’t Send Any More Troops to Fight Islamic State, but Will...

President Obama has been stressing that he is playing a long game on the fight against Daesh. And now he's pledged to increased the country's attempts to combat Daesh’s online propaganda.

Gunning down the Easter Bunny

The weaponization of everyday life.

Apocalypse Now?

Sadly, the more this empire focuses our attention on phony wars and regime change, and not on the slow bankrupting of this economy... Apocalypse Now won't be a redux, but a reality!

World War III’s newest battlefield

Looking forward today, however, the prospect of a catastrophic World War III is again becoming all too imaginable and this time, it appears, an incident in the Arctic could prove the spark for Armageddon.

Aleppo’s sobering lessons

Those who engage Syria with limited will and limited means must set limited goals if they are to accomplish even a limited amount of good.

Turkey Stages Coup Against Its Own Press and Generals in Bid to Arm Syrian...

While Turkey is roiled by a war on journalists, the arms flowing through the country are allowing the Salafi fighters to withstand the Russia air campaign south and east of Aleppo.
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Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton on duty to warn: Trump’s “relation to reality” is dangerous...

Robert Jay Lifton discusses what is now happening between the U.S. and North Korea, and Iran, and President Trump’s closest aides expressing concern that Trump is unraveling.

The 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis, right?

The good news is that they want to learn. The bad news: nowadays, they tend to think that the men who flew those planes on 9/11 were from Iran.

12 ways the US invasion of Iraq lives on in infamy

“Today, it is we Americans who live in infamy.”

Squad & Co: Unite as a block to downsize Biden’s military budget

This is the moment to demand a substantial cut in military spending that defunds new nuclear weapons.