Trump’s vainglorious affront to the CIA
By Robin Wright The death of Robert Ames, who was America's top intelligence officer for the Middle East, is commemorated among the hundred and seventeen stars on the white marble…
By Robin Wright The death of Robert Ames, who was America's top intelligence officer for the Middle East, is commemorated among the hundred and seventeen stars on the white marble…
By Sasha Abramsky Trumpism doesn't represent an ideological shift in U.S. policy and government. It's a vast tilt toward irrationality, a hyper-power in the grip of a political nervous breakdown.…
By David Remnick Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin's foreign minister, once remarked while on a trip to Berlin in the early days of the Cold War, “The trouble with free elections is that…
By Francis J. Gavin There is no graver threat to the world than nuclear war, a catastrophe some believe is less unlikely than commonly assumed. A president's most awesome responsibility…
By Neri Zilber Right-wingers in Jerusalem are ecstatic; Palestinian leaders are apoplectic. Welcome to a new era of the Arab-Israeli conflict “We are entering a new era,” Israeli Prime Minister…
By John Wight That Israel is a rogue state has long been beyond dispute in discerning company. In light of the recent revelation that an Israeli official, working for the…
By Michael Knights The announcement by the Iraqi military that its forces have reached the Tigris River for the first time in the battle for Mosul marks a significant moment…
By Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh As 2016 drew to a close in Syria and the government took back control over eastern Aleppo, over 4.8 million Syrian refugees continued to seek safety and…
By Patrick Cockburn I talked to Iraqi defectors in the 1990s who claimed to have plenty of information about WMDs and gossip about Hussein's family affairs. It did not take…
By Adam Eley & Katie Alston When former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003, the CIA required a specialist who could identify and interrogate him for information.…