When the detainee is American . . .
“The corpses pile up like sandbags along the planet’s geopolitical borders….” Robert C. Koehler Published in: Truthout, Counterpunch, Common Dreams,...
“The corpses pile up like sandbags along the planet’s geopolitical borders….” Robert C. Koehler Published in: Truthout, Counterpunch, Common Dreams,...
“The word, inappropriately uttered, has the news value of a bullet fired off at the mall. One word. It’s the...
““Tell them, I want everybody to know, I want everybody on the train to know, I love them . ....
“The wound burst open in November. History, suddenly, could no longer be avoided. Reality could no longer be avoided…” Robert...
“A suicide bomber inflicts hell at a concert hall in Manchester, England that’s full of children, as though that was...
“Welcome to the last paragraph of a Washington Post story the other day, a loose fragment of news, a homeless...
“For a journalist — especially one covering government and politics — the most suspicious, least trustworthy word in the language...
“At the climate rally in Chicago last week, people started drumming in the rain…” Robert C. Koehler Published in: Common...
“The American will to wage war — endless war, pointless war, total war — is, I fear, impervious to public...
“Sometimes our tame and compliant media upchucks a piece of truth. For instance: “American officials had predicted that the missile…”...
“A Morning Consult poll winks at me from my inbox: 57 percent of Americans support more airstrikes in Syria…” Robert...
“So maybe this is how the U.S. demilitarizes, or the American public at least returns to the consciousness of the...
“And so . . . another “precision” bomb strike in America’s war against terror. This was the scene in Mosul...
“We committed a quiet little war crime the other day. Forty-plus people are dead, taken out with Hellfire missiles while...
“Obama . . . Trump. Could there be a bigger contrast — in attitude, style, comportment, philosophy? What irony that…”...