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My Year in Writing: 2015 Jan 7, 2016

by Dan Sanchez As I reflected a year ago, 2014 was the year I came into my own as a writer. In 2015, my improved skill and confidence as an essayist translated into wider readership through multiple venues, for which I am very grateful. Below are links to my 63 essays of 2015, along with excerpted highlights and notes about their inspiration, reception, etc. Each link goes to the DanSanchez.me version of the article, at the bottom of which are links to the editions hosted elsewhere (Medium.com, Antiwar.com, etc). Click here to read the rest.

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North Korea Claims Successful Hydrogen Bomb Test Jan 6, 2016

North Korea Claims Successful Hydrogen Bomb Test

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Iraq Blames ISIS After Men in Military Uniforms Bomb Sunni Mosques Jan 5, 2016

by Jason Ditz In an attack many see as a revenge strike after the Saudi execution of a top Shi’ite cleric, a group of unknown attackers wearing Iraqi military uniforms attacked and bombed a pair of Sunni mosques just south of Baghdad. The attackers hit Hilla, destroying the dome of the Ammar bin Yasir mosque, and then moving against the nearby Fath al-Mubeen mosque, where police reported a guard was killed. Iraqi officials have so far not confirmed the casualties. Iraqi officials seem eager to dismiss the idea of Shi’ite attackers, however, with Prime Minister Hayder Abadi saying the gunmen...

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The War Against the Cowboys Jan 4, 2016

The Oregon stand off and US imperialism by Justin Raimondo As our old republic fades into history, replaced by a voracious global Empire, the division between foreign policy and domestic policy is erased. A conquistador treats his helots on the home front with the same contempt he has for his subjects abroad. In both cases, conquest and subjugation is the goal – and rebellion is the inevitable result. Just as the people of Iraq rose up and finally threw out the American occupiers, so the people in the American West are rising up against their federal overlords. This is the...

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Happy 20th, Antiwar.com Dec 31, 2015

A Rookie Antiwar Writer Reflects by Dan Sanchez Antiwar.com is twenty years old this month! After two decades, it holds firm as a principled, wide-reaching voice for peace. None of its haters in the war party have managed to even intimidate Antiwar.com, much less eliminate it: not the post-9/11 war fever witch hunts, not the FBI, not even the Google-gon. This is cause for celebration. I personally especially have cause to celebrate, because Antiwar.com has been a life-changing influence for me. I have been a radical libertarian for a while now. And throughout that time, I have always been uncompromisingly...

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Turkey’s Week-Long Offensive Kills 200 Rebels, 150 Civilians Dec 31, 2015

by Jason Ditz Turkey has been engaged in a war against the PKK for months now, but really picked up the pace in the past week, imposing full-scale curfews on Kurdish towns in the southeast, and engaging in increasingly indiscriminate shelling and sniper fire against those population centers. The past week, according to rights groups, has seen about 200 rebels killed, along with 150 slain civilians. This sort of huge civilian toll is only adding to opposition Kurdish groups who were previously peaceful but are increasingly endorsing the rebellion as just resistance. The Erdogan government has ruled out allowing the...

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US Can’t Confirm Iraq Seizing Central Ramadi Dec 28, 2015

by Jason Ditz Iraqi officials are hyping the narrative that they’ve captured central Ramadi from ISIS and that the final expulsion of the group for the Anbar provincial capital is at hand. US officials, however, say they cannot confirm the claims of Iraqi gains in the city’s center. Iraqi troops initially attacked Ramadi earlier this month, but their advance stalled at the center of the city, with ISIS setting up a series of traps to slow their advance. Iraq says today they took the provincial government compound. Even Iraqi military officials sought to leave some wiggle room in this claim...

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1956 US Document Planned Mass Nuclear Strikes on Densely Populated Areas Dec 24, 2015

International law explicitly forbids intentionally targeting civilian populations in time of war, but the US appears to have thrown that out the window with the SAC study, envisioning a wholesale slaughter of much of the planet’s population as a specific military goal.

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Officials Blame Iran for Failed 2013 Hack on NY Dam Dec 22, 2015

by Jason Ditz Adding to the endless calls of Congressional officials for new government “cybersecurity” powers, officials today revealed that in 2013, the tiny Bowman Avenue Dam in Rye Brook, New York, was the target of a hacking attempt, which they link to “Iranian hackers” who were trying to see what they could get access to. Officials say the details of the incident are “classified” because of national security, though the 20-foot dam is purely used to try to control downstream flooding on the tiny blind brook. The hackers never got control of the dam, but were able to move...

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75 Killed, Scores Wounded in Fierce Fighting on Yemen-Saudi Border Dec 22, 2015

by Jason Ditz Three days of fierce fighting, punctuated by Saudi airstrikes and Houthi artillery fire, has raged along the Yemen-Saudi border in Hajjah Province, leaving at least 75 combatants killed and scores of others wounded. Officials said 40 Houthis and 35 pro-Saudi troops were killed, with 50 Houthis and an unspecified number of Saudi troops wounded, which was believed to be in the “dozens.” Dozens of armored vehicles were destroyed on both sides. While most of the fighting in the Yemen War has been militias and irregular troops clashing with Saudi warplanes looming overhead, this is one of the...

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NY Pizza Parlor Owner Pleads Guilty to Recruiting for ISIS Dec 18, 2015

by Jason Ditz Mufid Elfgeeh, the 31-year-old owner of a pizza parlor in Rochester, New York, has pled guilty to recruiting fighters for ISIS through a series of Twitter and Facebook accounts, and providing money to a pair of FBI informants he was trying to get to travel to Syria to join ISIS. Elfgeeh, a US citizen who was born in Yemen, began communicating with the two FBI informants in late 2013, and buying one a laptop computer and giving the other $1,000 in cash to buy handguns. He was arrested when he attempted to pick up the guns from...

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Iraq Rejects US Proposal to Send Attack Helicopters to Ramadi Dec 17, 2015

by Jason Ditz Secretary of Defense Ash Carter told reporters today that his most recent meeting with Iraqi PM Hayder Abadi failed to convince him to authorize the deployment of US Apache attack helicopters into the city of Ramadi, along with potential US “advisers.” Iraq attacked Ramadi earlier this month, and Carter made the offer publicly for helicopters last week, saying he believed Iraq needed US troops and helicopters to “finish the job” in the Anbar capital. Subsequent reports from US officials suggested they believed Iraq would accept the offer. Abadi, however, is struggling with the political fallout of recent US...

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IAEA Chief: Iran Working at ‘Quite High Speed’ on Implementing Nuclear Deal Dec 17, 2015

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today formally closed the books on their long-standing investigation into pact nuclear weapons work by Iran.

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The Road to Galactic Serfdom Dec 15, 2015

War, Tyranny, and Terror in the First Two Star Wars Trilogies by Dan Sanchez Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters this week, continuing the cinematic saga of an interplanetary civilization’s struggles with galactic war and tyranny. It will be watched by millions whose own civilization is beset by global warfare driven by a planetary empire on the verge of descending into a militarized police state. So now would be a good time to review the lessons to be found in the first two Star Wars trilogies concerning the road to universal serfdom and how to keep off it. The...

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152 Pro-Saudi Troops Killed in South Yemen Missile Strike Dec 15, 2015

by Jason Ditz In what appears to be the single deadliest strike of the nine-month Saudi war in Yemen, forces loyal to the Shi’ite Houthis fired an OTR-21 Tochka tactical ballistic missile at a pro-Saudi coalition base near Taiz, with early reports putting the death toll around 152 troops. The identities of all the slain are still being sorted out, but dozens of foreign troops are among the slain, including Saudi Special Forces commander Col. Abdullah Sahyan. Emirati and Moroccan soldiers were also identified as among the slain. The Houthis reported the attack was carried out by one of the...

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Trump Stumps for ISIS Dec 11, 2015

Donald and Daesh Join Forces Against the ‘Gray Zone’ by Dan Sanchez Since ISIS rose to conquest in Syria and Iraq, then turning its deadly attention westward, it (with the help of its government and media accomplices) has unleashed a fresh flood of terror, which the people of the West have, unresisting, let wash over them. In America, Donald Trump has tapped that terror to fuel the flames of Islamophobic hate, which he hopes will propel his rise to Presidential power. “When can we get rid of ’em?” asked a supporter at a rally before the Paris attacks. “We are...

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50 Killed as Taliban Siege Kandahar Airport Dec 9, 2015

by Jason Ditz Late Tuesday afternoon, Taliban fighters forced their way through the gate of the Kandahar Airport, which in addition to be the city’s civilian airport also serves as the main Afghan and NATO headquarters for southern Afghanistan, as well as the CIA’s base of operations for the country. After hours of fighting, officials claimed the situation resolved with nine killed. This was apparently not true, as locals have reported fighting raged through the airport compound well into Wednesday, and there is still no conclusive sign that the fighting has ended outright. The Afghan Defense Ministry is now reporting...

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Trump Calls for Full Ban on Muslims Entering US Dec 9, 2015

by Jason Ditz The latest in a series of statements sparking global condemnation by Republican front-runner Donald Trump has the billionaire presidential hopeful calling for a full-scale ban on all Muslims entering the United States for an indefinite period of time. Trump described the move as a “total and complete shutdown” of all admission of Muslims into America, and his campaign confirmed this ban would apply not just to foreigners, but also to American citizens who happen to be Muslim and are overseas for vacations or other purposes. Trump, however, later walked this back, saying citizens could freely travel because...

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I Love America. Do You? Dec 8, 2015

The late Harry Browne Loved America. Why Don't the Imperialists?

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The Long Game for the Long War Dec 8, 2015

Toward a Colonial End Zone with No Gray Zone by Dan Sanchez Fourteen years in, and the Terror War is raging on, mass-producing exactly what it was supposed to eliminate: terrorism and chaos. Western intervention has racked up at least six jihadi-overrun failed states throughout the Greater Middle East: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen. The scope and scale of the imposed civilizational meltdown have become so great that the West itself has been increasingly inundated by its wreckage (in the form of refugees) and stung by its shrapnel (in the form of terrorist attacks). To paraphrase Yeats, is...

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