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In the recent Bloomberg article "Assad Is Close to Victory, But New Conflicts Are Bubbling Up in Syria" authors Onur Ant and Amy Teibel outline the risks of a complicated and potentially catastrophic regional war that might emerge out of the Syrian conflict, but what's most consequential is left unsaid: the entire situation is the result of the US's many illegal wars.

Indeed, the most important takeaway is MIA: the greatest mi...

On January 13th, Babe.net published a piece by Katie Way entitled: I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life, which lit a media firestorm as journalists and commentators reacted with a fascinatingly variegated array of opinions and conclusions. Though the consternation and uproar have been painful, is there any possibility it has also yielded something positive?

Among those...

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Newsweek's Grace Guarnieri just reported that One-Third Of Americans Agree With President Trump That Media Is 'Enemy' Of The People, and although it is vaguely shocking, how could anyone possibly be surprised?

Now, apparently only 1/3 of Americans agree, so maybe the news media is only 30% evil. But you ask victims of the US's illegal wars if they think the...

Doesn't this guy get tired of being laughed out of the room? 

Former UN Ambassador and 8,000 year old warmonger John Bolton is up to his old tricks again and the internet is not pleased. 

Bolton, who advocated fiercely for the illegal war on Iraq, the illegal regime change in Libya, war with Cuba (also for WMDs that didn't exist), and nuclear war with Iran has always been strenuously opposed to the Iran Nuclear Deal--despite the...

What on Earth is David Hambling thinking? 

Even ex-drone operators have called drone strikes "cowardly murder."  You might as well be awarding medals for killing babies with missiles... oh wait YOU ARE!!!!

When defense secretary Chuck Hagel thought about doing it 3 years ago, the American Legion veterans’ organization and others complained that such a medal would be demeaning to holders of existing combat awards. And who ca...

In an urgently-worded letter to the UN, a group of the A.I. industry's top experts, including 116 industry leaders--among them SpaceX/Tesla Founder Elon Musk--and dozens of organizations in nearly 30 countries, including China, Israel, Russia, Britain, South Korea and France; have called for a ban on autonomous weapons; often euphemistically referred to as "killer robots," asking that they be added to the list of weapons...

It's been a few weeks now since white supremacist and terrorist James Fields weaponized a vehicle to plow through a crowd of protesters, killing civil rights activist Heather Heyer. Since then, Fields has been decried as a terrorist by many commentators in the media, not to mention high ranking Republicans like Jeff Sessions and Marco Rubio who Tweeted that Trump should describe events as a “terror attack by white su...

Noam Chomsky has called the drone strike campaign ""the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times," and he's right. When we look at the appalling numbers of innocents killed, the lies used to conceal their murders, and the terrible human cost--not just to the communities we're bombing and to the world but to the people we ask to commit these robot-assisted mass-murders, it is impossible to see the campaign as anything bu...

If you ask The Weekly Standard founder Bill Kristol the answer is the Deep State. "Obviously strongly prefer normal democratic and constitutional politics. But if it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state." How typical that a war propagandist like Kristol would prefer to see the country ruled by the organizations that put Saddam Hussein in power, planned the overthrow of the President of Syria, recruited Osama B...

Wow. Just when you thought the showmanship and hysterics couldn't get more unhinged.

Bill Maher told his "Real Time" audience Russia "attacked" the US and that the president didn't know that the US war with Russia is already happening. Bill, you'd better pray a war with Russia isn't happening.

This is disappointing from a intelligent comic whose show is usually so on point.

Bill, you may be trying to inspire Democr...