The Pentagon Doesn’t Care About Civilian Casualties

In August 2019, thousands of refugees, prisoners, and families of ISIS fighters crowded into an encampment in the border town of Baghuz in eastern Syria, one of the last territories controlled by the so-called Islamic State. The United States, supported on the ground by an allied Kurdish and Arab militia, launched a massive air assault on the enclave.

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The Mali Blowback: More to Come?

Foreign Policy In Focus February 1, 2013 [Republished by Transnational.org & ZNetwork] The French-led military offensive in its former colony of Mali has pushed back radical Islamists and allied militias from some of the country’s northern cities, freeing the local…

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Pakistan’s Dictatorships and the United States

Foreign Policy In Focus/IPS, December 12, 2007 [source] In his 2005 inaugural address, President George W. Bush declared that the United States would support democratic movements around the world and work to end tyranny. Furthermore, he pledged to those struggling…

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