ISIS: An Inside Job?

by Justin Raimondo, May 27, 2015   ISIS: An Inside Job? You could say that. When Ivy Ziedrich, a nineteen-year-old college student, approached Jeb Bush on the campaign trail and zinged him with “Your brother created ISIS!” the media ate it up… Continue Reading

‘Lone Wolf’ Attacker Warning Followed Up by Convenient FBI Arrests

Jason Ditz, January 15, 2015   Late last week, Attorney General Eric Holder declared America to be “at war” with “lone wolf” attackers. Impossibly immediately and convenient, the FBI has announced multiple arrests and multiple “plots” foiled by FBI informants,… Continue Reading

Understanding the Paris Violence

by Sheldon Richman January 14, 2015 Contrary to American officialdom and its stalwart “manufacturers of consent” — the intelligentsia and mainstream media — we will never comprehend the reasons for the slaughter of 17 innocent people in Paris as long… Continue Reading

The IS & the US Versus You: The Use of Terror in Politics

by Will Porter, November 4, 2014   In early October, TomDispatch’s Tom Engelhardt, in a piece entitled “ISIS in Washington,” touched upon a key point which, I think, deserves some emphasis. Terror, Engelhardt said, is used not only by Islamist… Continue Reading

The Kenyan Massacre’s Roots in America’s Somalia Policy

by Sheldon Richman September 24, 2013 Last weekend’s hostage-taking — and the murder of at least 61 people — at the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, has its roots in the U.S. government’s intervention in Somalia, which began in… Continue Reading