On November 13, I had the great pleasure of speaking about the causes of the Israel-Palestine conflict with Ahmad Malik, a doctor and orthopedic surgeon, on his podcast Doc Malik. As he informed me when we started recording, he had just had on another guest, Norman...
“Trust the experts,” we are constantly being told, whatever the topic of discussion. The problem with this advice is that the so-called “experts” are frequently wrong, sometimes as a result of plain incompetence and other times because it is their function to...
In the Wall Street Journal, Paul Wolfowitz — one of the architects of the illegal war on Iraq — advocates regime change in Syria and charges President Bashar al-Assad with “making efforts to strengthen the Islamic State”. Meanwhile, in...
The New York Times in an article last month about the Trump administration ostentsibly dropping the Obama administration policy of seeking regime change in Syria notes that this has stirred criticism, including from some Republican lawmakers, who assert...
IntroductionSyriaIranRussiaCubaIsrael & PalestineConclusion Introduction John Kerry earlier this month penned an op-ed for the New York Times touting “America’s leadership” as “essential and effective” thanks largely to the...
I appeared on Press TV to discuss the US airstrikes in Libya and how doing more of the same that caused the rise of ISIS in the first place won’t solve the...
[Update, February 20, 2016: After expressing my disappointment and publicly calling them out, the Habilian Association restored the full text of my interview.] I was recently asked to do an interview by Meysam Haddadian for the Habilian Association, but much...
The Media’s Longstanding Propaganda NarrativeStill At It…How the CIA Armed Extremist Groups in SyriaThe Rise of ISISConclusion The New York Times has habitually downplayed the early role of the CIA in coordinating the flow of arms to armed rebels...
The US government implements a policy of prolonging and escalating the violence in Syria, backing armed rebels seeking to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad, with most of the arms delivered by the CIA by the end of 2012 having fallen into the hands of...
FPJ — Although the threat of U.S. strikes against Syria has for the time being abated due to intervention from Russian President Vladimir Putin and an agreement from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to declare its stockpiles of chemical weapons to the...
FPJ — One theme we repeatedly hear about the Obama administration’s plan to bomb Syria is that the U.S./NATO bombing of Kosovo serves as a model. An examination of the reason for this is instructive. It is well understood that the U.N. Security Council...