The findings were published on Tuesday, weeks before the United States enters its 20th year of fighting the "war on terror" ....

What was the most devastating attack by al-Qa’ida in the past few months? Despite all the pious talk this weekend about combating “terrorism”, few will have heard of it. It happened on 15 August when bombers killed 63 people in 17 cities up and down Iraq in the space of a few hours. Such carnage is ignored because the US ...

This week, as the media runs its displays on America ten years after the 9/11 attacks, there will be references to the dollar costs. A figure some will use is the one trillion dollars President Obama cited as for the war in Iraq. That figure is a gross underestimate. The war in Iraq and its costs are inseparable from the ...

‘Sovereign is he who decides on the exception,’ Carl Schmitt wrote in different times almost a century ago, when European empires and armies dominated most continents and the United States was basking underneath an isolationist sun. What the conservative theorist meant by ‘exception’ was a state of emergency, necessitated by serious economic or political cataclysms, that required a suspension of ...