War

Part two of writer Chris Hedges and scholar Rania Masri response to President Obama's Syria address.

Once again, we find ourselves at the day after 9/11, and this time America stands alone.

Simply ask yourself if a particular option will cause suffering. The decision then becomes easy, and it becomes particularly easy on questions of war.

Whatever Congress decides to do about bombing Syria, the United States is still trapped by a historic contradiction of its own invention.

If the vast majority of the public in the US and the UK doesnu2019t have a clue about the death toll from the Iraq war, then how can they …

The fact is that, were the White House telling the truth about the need for an attack on Syria, it would be a first in history. Every other case …

During Tuesdayu2019s Senate hearing on Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry insisted the administration has irrefutable evidence showing the Assad regime was responsible for the deadly chemical attack in …

While only 20% of the American people thought the US should take action in Syria when Obama spoke, that number was up from only 9% last week, indicating that …

Caution about war against Syria is more than warranted by knowledge of the history of US interventions in other countries' domestic quarrels.

Chris Hedges continues his fight to strike down a section of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that permits the military to seize U.S. citizens, strip them of due …