If military drones are “revolutionizing” instruments, then wherever we are, we are in a field of battle.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: For Whom the Drones Buzz
Category: Column
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Leaving the Democrats for Good
The author’s break with the Democrats began when Obama’s administration sought revenge on him for blowing the whistle on C.I.A. torture. Now he has many more reasons.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The White House as Mad House
It is time, plain and simple, to give up the thought that anything good is to come out of Trump’s next three and a half years.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Diplomatic Chess, Ukraine the Pawn
In Istanbul, a door was pried open after a soap opera’s worth of chicanery in London, Paris, Berlin and Kiev. Now the question is what Trump can do to address Russia’s concerns.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Losing & Learning Nothing
The delusions about Ukraine continue as from the start. Washington and its puppet regime in Kiev have lost the war they provoked but there is no speaking of a defeat.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Where is the ‘Arab Street?’
During the ongoing wars of Israeli expansionism in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria and Lebanon, the absence of large, sustainable protests in numerous Arab capitals is notable.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: ‘Assassination Culture’
The only way to change those in government, at least in our present construct, is at the ballot box. But hyper-partisanship has the country at each other’s throats with assassination in the air.
Vijay Prashad: BRICS & Industrial Development
With the expansion of the group to more countries of the Global South, a revival of the “Bangdung Spirit” is taking place, but not without its contradictions.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Late–Imperial Maladies
The worst part of living this distance from reality — or maybe the best part — is the knowledge, even if it is only subliminal, that we cannot go on like this.
