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The Torturers and the ‘Ticking Bomb’: How Torture Became Routine in the Global War on Terror
• January 30, 2020
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With all the media excitement focused on the impeachment of President Donald Trump, it comes as no surprise that some recent additional insights into how the United States became a torture regime have been largely ignored. It has been known for years that the George W. Bush Administration carried out what most of the world... Read More
How Turkey Plays the War on Terror
America's reluctant ally finally offers token assistance against ISIS only as cover for a campaign against the Kurds
• August 25, 2015
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The United States’s engagement in the Middle East since 2001 would be a comedy of errors but for the fact that it is not funny. It all began with the exploitation of a befuddled President George W. Bush by a group of neoconservative advisers who had long planned to invade Iraq and oust its President... Read More
Cashing in on Counter-Terrorism
Government-friendly inexpert witnesses help grease the wheels for an unaccountable war on terror.
• August 11, 2015
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The counter-terrorism industry in the United States is largely invisible, but its cost is not, amounting to tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars annually, depending on what one includes in the reckoning. And the actual level of threat is certainly debatable. Anyone who looks at terrorism arrests and convictions in the United State... Read More
The True Cost of the War on Terror
Though the global body count is obscured, America's destabilizing actions may have claimed more lives than nonstate...
• July 2, 2015
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Last week’s two mass murders carried out by militants allegedly associated with the Islamic State (IS) took place shortly after the release of the State Department’s annual Country Reports on Terrorism 2014. Country Reports is 389 pages long, broken down by country and region. It also includes statistical charts, a focus on state sponsors, and... Read More
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Unending War on Terror
Millions dead costing trillions of dollars
• April 28, 2015
• 1,800 Words • 56 Comments • Reply
The admission by the White House that two western hostages were killed by an errant drone strike in Pakistan serves as only an ugly little footnote to what has been nearly fifteen years of undeclared war waged by Washington against a large part of the world. The New York Times notes that “…most individuals killed... Read More
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Why Remain in Afghanistan?
• December 12, 2013
• 1,400 Words • 17 Comments • Reply
The White House is pushing hard to keep a significant number of American soldiers in Afghanistan contrary to President Barack Obama’s earlier pledge to have then all out by the end of 2014. As the United States President has demonstrated himself to be a habitual liar that failure to connect promises made in 2008 with... Read More
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Philip Giraldi
About Philip Giraldi

Phil Giraldi is a former CIA Case Officer and Army Intelligence Officer who spent twenty years overseas in Europe and the Middle East working terrorism cases. He holds a BA with honors from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in Modern History from the University of London. In addition to TAC, where he has been a contributing editor for nine years, he writes regularly for Antiwar.com. He is currently Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and resides with his wife of 32 years in Virginia horse country close to his daughters and grandchildren.


Personal Classics
America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars
Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?
• 1,324 Comments • Reply
Americans Should be Ashamed
A Modern Guernica Enabled by Washington
• 106 Comments • Reply
How the Israel Lobby Works
Pressuring Candidates Even Before They Are Nominated
• 48 Comments • Reply
Israel Is No Ally
But is it even a friend?
• 97 Comments • Reply
Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?
The gagged whistleblower goes on the record.
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Counter Intelligence
Today’s CIA serves contractors and bureaucrats—not the nation.
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