Learning the Wrong Lessons from the Bush Era
By Andrew Bacevich
To appreciate the full extent of the military crisis into which the United States has been plunged requires understanding what the Iraq War and, to a lesser extent, the Afghan War have to teach. These two conflicts, along with the attacks of September [...]

The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals.
“In The Dark Side, Jane Mayer, a staff writer for the New Yorker, documents some of the ugliest allegations of wrongdoing charged against the Bush administration. Her achievement lies less in bringing new revelations to light than in weaving into [...]

By Tom Burghardt
TS Admin: This article is probably the most important article you will read. The covert human experimentation without consent, the nightmarish technologies already hanging over our heads — and worse — the new mind control weapons in the imminent future are intended to be perpetrated on YOU… the American & global population, unless this is stopped.
A [...]

In the West, Russia Is Still Perceived as the Usual Suspect Prone to Aggression
By Georgy Bovt
Nowadays, while watching Russian and Western television channels simultaneously, even a viewer experienced in information wars can still get a more or less objective picture of the events taking place in South Ossetia and in Georgia. But if [...]

Whoever started it, however we got involved in it, the time for blame game is long past. This is our battle now and this is a battle to the death.
By Anwaar Hussain
In the four days after General Musharraf resigned from Pakistan’s presidency, more than 150 innocent people were blown to bits in just two suicide [...]

By Zafar Masud
AT 67, André de la Roche stands ramrod straight and a full head taller than one’s idea of an averagely tall person.
Hard labour here at his ancestral vineyards by the Loire river in central France has imparted this mild-mannered Parisian intellectual a lean, muscled physique.
The descendant of an old aristocratic family, André now [...]

By Brendan O’Neill
In the 21st Century, the term “flat-earther” is used to describe someone who is spectacularly – and seemingly wilfully – ignorant. But there is a group of people who claim they believe the planet really is flat. Are they really out there or is it all an elaborate prank?
Nasa is celebrating its [...]