Officials are suggesting the 9/11 law used by three presidents to justify every intervention of the last 18 years is applicable to Tehran, too. By Heather Brandon-Smith.

Who is Reuel Marc Gerecht? By Shane Ryan.

The Trump administration is using new authority to take more aggressive digital action in a warning to Moscow and in a demonstration of its abilities. By David Sanger, Nicole Perlroth. (June 15, 2019)

Amazon has been embroiled in a 7-year dispute with Brazil and Peru over the domain name. By Matt Binder.

The US and its allies have fatally underestimated the religious motivation of their adversaries, and lost countless conflicts as a result. By Patrick Cockburn.

After years covering the "main battlefield in World War III," Narwani says everything you think you know is wrong. By Patrick Lawrence.

Rammstein

After a destabilizing move by Trump, it's no longer a question of if U.S. forces will die but when. By Scott Ritter.

In an excerpt from his new book Hate Inc., Matt Taibbi looks back at how the media built new lies to cover their early ones. By Matt Taibbi,

When the Defense Department flunked its first-ever fiscal review, one of our government’s greatest mysteries was exposed: Where does the DoD’s $700 billion annual budget go? By Matt Taibbi.

Despite facing one embarrassment after the other, British Prime Minister Theresa May continues to plow ahead, seemingly undeterred. It's becoming increasingly clear that she is the main impediment to solving the Brexit mess. By Peter Müller, Jörg Schindler.

The U.S. military has a detailed plan to save the living, or at least outlast the dead. By Stephen L. Carter.

The Paris agreement on climate change charts a narrow path to avoiding a global apocalypse. Just one problem: Its centerpiece is a technology that basically doesn’t yet exist. By Abby Rabinowitz, Amanda Simson.

America had better hope that its leaders and media learn from the clamor for invading Iraq in 2003. By Christopher A. Preble.

Or Five Lessons in the History of American Defeat. By Tom Engelhardt.

Those crossed swords in Baghdad, the rockets swooping heavenwards in the giant wall painting in his palace conference room, the military parades – they would surely have tickled the interest of the present lunatic in the White House. Kim Jong-un is Trump’s Saddam. By Robert Fisk.

The problem with John Bolton isn’t that he’s an extremist. It's that he’s mainstream. By Stephen M. Walt.

Just eight months ago, John Bolton told members of a cult-like Iranian exile group that "before 2019" they would be ruling Iran. By Robert Mackey.

Brushing aside warnings that he was about to unleash Armageddon in the Middle East, George W. Bush launched an unprovoked attack on Iraq on March 19-20, 2003, the ramifications of which we are still grappling with today, Nat Parry writes.

A review of the Clinton and Bush years reminds us what really dooms a presidency. By T.A. Frank.