The Islamic State may use beheading as a tool to recruit fighters.
Islamic State Offers Beheading as a Perk to Recruits
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For Airstrikes on the Islamic State, U.S. Relaxing Drone Strikes’ Burden of Proof
The standards the U.S. purportedly used to prevent civilian deaths from drone strikes have been relaxed for airstrikes in Syria and Iraq.
Our National Security State Knows Everything about You but Nothing about the World
Americans are trading away their privacy, civil liberties, and billions of tax dollars for an intelligence complex that never seems to know what’s going on in the world.
The Khorasan Group Creation Myth
Glenn Greenwald’s report that the Khorasan group was hyped to mobilize support for attacking the Islamic State sounds credible.
Barack Obama and the Will to Fight
Obama is more than willing to stand up against the Islamic State. Too bad he wasn’t willing to stand up to his hawkish critics.
Here’s Everything Wrong with the White House’s War on the Islamic State
The Obama administration’s war plans in Iraq and Syria are illegal, ill-conceived, and destined to fail. Here’s what the U.S.—and you—can do instead.
The Only Way to Win in Iraq Is Not to Play
America is now fighting the Iraq War for the third time, somehow madly expecting different results, while guaranteeing only failure.
Obama Launches an Illegal War in Syria
President Obama’s decision to bomb Syria stands in stark violation of international law, the UN Charter, and the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
Without Iran, a Coalition to Confront the Islamic State Is Doomed to Failure
Iran is the linchpin of security in the Middle East.
Our Unjust Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Have Blinded Us to a Real Threat
Many Americans have reached the point that they can no longer conceive of a legitimate war unless it’s on our own soil.