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Dick Cheney's man: Iraq Needs Regime Change Again The United States faces an increasingly urgent set of first-order policy questions in Iraq. Spoiler alert: The answer is not Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi, Iraq’s newly designated prime minister. A popular uprising might be....
Stephen Zunes discusses the catastrophic mistake of the U.S. plan to invade Iraq, then "divide and rule" along sectarian lines. Zunes says that although the relationship between Iran and the Iraqi Shiite government is a problem for those who worry about Iranian...
It's just one throwaway line in CIA asset Ken Dilanian’s new NBC piece on the whiz-bang, super-neato, space-age, Hollywood movie-like, special, high-technology that made the assassination possible. "Intelligence from Israel helped confirm the details." And dammit, I...
Ever since the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, it has been an article of faith that Americans should thank the troops for their service in those two countries. Yet, with the exception of libertarians and few leftists, the fact is that during the two decades of...
Stephen Zunes talks about democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden's shameful record on foreign policy—the real reason he shouldn't be president. In the senate, Biden was a champion of deposing Saddam Hussein all along, explains Zunes, and his claims of merely...
Buzzfeed was once notorious for traffic-generating “listicles”, but has since become an impressive outlet for deep investigative journalism under editor-in-chief Ben Smith. That outlet was prominently in the news this week thanks to its “bombshell” story about...
Gareth Porter comes back on the show to respond to claims that he's an apologist for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. In explaining his 1975 book, Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution, he identifies a dangerous trend surrounding American wars abroad, which he himself fell...
Journalist Barry Lando talks about the history of American hostilities in Iraq, beginning with Saddam Hussein's invasion of the oil fields of Kuwait after Kuwait refused to forgive Saddam's debts from his war against Iran. Lando explains that Saddam had been led to...
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