At a time when U.S. domestic crises demand urgent attention, Robert Inlakesh highlights unwavering governmental foreign aid for Israel and Ukraine.
LA Fire Cuts … Billions for Israel & Ukraine
Vijay Prashad: Ending the War in Ukraine
As NATO fails in its attempt to expand into Ukraine, popular support has shifted significantly in favour of a path to peace.
Chris Hedges: The Ceasefire Charade
Israel plays a cynical game. It makes phased agreements with the Palestinians that ensure it immediately gets what it wants. It then violates every subsequent phase and reignites its military assault.
Craig Murray: Ceasefire Not an End
What may be drawing to a close is merely a particularly intense phase in the genocide. The author saw Israel break the ceasefire in Lebanon every day, and expects the same in Gaza.
Stealing Credit for the Gaza Ceasefire
There’s little doubt Donald Trump’s intervention was the main reason for the Gaza ceasefire but predictably Joe Biden, who facilitated genocide until the bitter end, is saying it was him on his way out the door, says Joe Lauria.
Commentary, Election 2024, Intelligence, Legal, U.S., U.S. Justice Dept., U.S. Supreme Courrt, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
A Switch in Time?
Andrew P. Napolitano on Tulsi Gabbard’s abandonment of the people’s constitutional protection from spying under the Fourth Amendment.
Biden Administration, Commentary, Cuba, Obama Administration, Politics, Trump Administration, U.S., United Nations
Biden Leaves Cuba’s Terror De-Listing to Bitter End
Critics say it should not have taken the president four years to take Cuba off the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
‘National Scandal’: The BBC’s Gaza Cover-Up
Britain’s “public service broadcaster” has kept the public in the dark about U.K. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, writes Mark Curtis.
Biden Administration, China, Commentary, Israel, Media, Palestine, Press Freedom, Russia, U.S. State Department, Ukraine
Patrick Lawrence: The Nihilism of Antony Blinken
In a send-off interview with The New York Times, Biden’s secretary of state renders a sober-sounding account of the world as the retiring regime now leaves it that is so shockingly far from reality as to be frightening.
Blinken Says Israel’s Assault Helped Create as Many Hamas Members as It Killed
Speaking before the ceasefire was announced, Blinken effectively said Israel hadn’t made any advancements in its stated mission of defeating Hamas in more than 15 months of the Israeli military’s genocide in Gaza, writes Sharon Zhang.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Predictable Capitulation of Tulsi Gabbard
By professing support for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after opposing it for years, Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence has just told America it’s the same old imperium after all.
American Empire, Column, Commentary, Gulf States, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: A History of Foreign Intrigue in Lebanon
The U.S. took advantage of a changing regional and domestic environment to make a favorable arrangement for itself this time. But the notion that it can drag Lebanon into the pro-Israeli orbit of the Gulf will prove illusory.
Craig Murray: US Pet Now President of Lebanon
That General Joseph Aoun is the U.S. and Israel’s man is not in doubt. This is another defeat for Hezbollah following its disastrous ceasefire agreement, which led to the same-day start of the assault on their ally Assad.
Vijay Prashad: Frankenstein Disavows His Monster
Even as the gloomy realities of war and hunger threaten to dull the light of humanity, the red sparkling dance of our struggles illuminates the path forward.
Chris Hedges: Fire Weather
Welcome to the age of the “Pyrocene” where cities burn and water does not come out of the hydrants.
Biden Administration, Commentary, Disinformation, Israel, Palestine, Propaganda, U.S., U.S. Congress, War Crimes
Genocidal President, Genocidal Politics
Acclimatizing the U.S. to the Gaza genocide was most crucially abetted by Biden and his loyalists, who pretended he wasn’t doing what he was really doing, says Norman Solomon.
3 Strikes Against Pete Hegseth as Pentagon Chief
Considering the horrific history of sexual assault in the U.S. military, Ann Wright says her primary concern is the Trump nominee’s record of violence toward women. But there are other red flags as well.
Advanced Technologies, Analysis, Censorship, Commentary, Disinformation, Gaza, Israel, Military, Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Congress, WikiLeaks
The Recklessness of AI
Artificial Intelligence seems destined to change the world. But until now its errors are being allowed to kill innocent people, writes one of two Joe Laurias.
Judge Orders CPS to Come Clean on Deleted Assange Docs
A judge in London has ruled that Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) must explain what happened to certain documents in the Julian Assange case that it claims no longer exist, reports Joe Lauria.
Pro-Palestine Activism & Trump’s Return
During Trump 2.0, Medea Benjamin says the Palestine solidarity movement must find and expand the cracks in the pro-Israel war machine.