What stood out to me about that interview with Lord Admiral West was not his skepticism about the veracity of the claim that the Syrian government was associated with the currently alleged gas attack,

“It is Israel which is behind the war on Syria and which is pressing for further conflict.” The history of the conflict in Syria detailed in the following link goes back further, and up to 2013, and shows

You posit that it is a western empire that is entering post primacy. Although looking at the U.S. and NATO as an empire may be helpful in some analyses as a rubric, a clear-eyed rebel recognizes that this

I'm not as sanguine as you about Trump, his administration, or the Republican Party, but I agree with your conclusion: Give Trump a Chance! For one thing, it doesn't cost anything, and for another, it

Trump has tweeted, recklessly. One almost feels relieved that this follows on the heels of many such inchoate Twitter utterances. The question now: is he playing to the crowd, or does it represent the

I think you still have your finger on the pulse. This is the issue of the moment (along with taxing Amazon). Trump has already canceled the CIA’s covert funding of “rebel” groups in Syria. Tillerson allowed

The Kurds who "rose up" did so as a close ally of Israel, making the domestic excuses for their sedition more opaque. Add to them the Takfiri rebels, who also enjoyed Israeli patronage, and you

Well, there’s always going to be something wrong with taking someone’s correspondence or business records and making them public without their consent. That wrong could be outweighed by the right the public

Russophobia/Russomania has hit a fever pitch, and seems unstoppable simply by refutation. What kind of counter-narrative could derail it is the question of moment. Not having an answer, I hope we can start

Caitlin posits a Western Empire as being behind — well, nothing at the moment, but which could end up being — another false flag act of obverse provocateur-ism, this time to justify an invasion of Syria.

It might be helpful here to compare the situation to that in other countries. I used to think America (and by extension Australia, and Europe) were quite separate and distinct in this regard from China,

It continues to be common to hear remarked that W’s invasion of Iraq was a mistake, a failure, had unintended consequences, or should have been handled differently. It should be clear now that the consequences

The election of Putin to another term as President has become a lightning rod for inane proclamations. A Facebook Friend from High School posted an article from the Washington Post headlined: Trump’s national

An appropriate frame for these Twitter observations is Yasha Levine’s new book on the history of the Internet, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, which Caitlin referenced

I remember when Bezos and Amazon were coming up. We thought of them like Earth Shoes and the Whole Earth Catalog. Hippie start-ups. And then when he got bigger, what was noticeable was his debt. His firm

Alt-Right is defined here by you and those you cite in terms much narrower than those used generally. Generally, outlets like Breitbart are described as Alt-Right, and as you casually indicate, the usage

Thank you for posting this interview with the Tea Party Triumphalist Pompeo (and Wichita Liberty TV for preserving this artifact). During this interview he prides himself on opposition to the Economic

A few contradictions here. She’s never met Mike Cernovich, and yet, “ she personally doesn’t mind working with on some specific issues.” I guess you could say she was working from a virtual office, but

As a fellow J-School grad (the Dean of my college of Journalism was a former U.S. Press Secretary), I couldn’t agree with you more. Shortly after graduating, I asked the major metropolitan daily I was

This, I imagine, is in a small measure what Russia feels like: Constantly maligned, distorted, and lied about. (Syria, too.) I don’t know about Australians, but it sometimes seems Americans will buy anything,