The Last Superpower?
I was born on July 20, 1944, almost two years after Joe Biden arrived on this planet and almost a year before You Know Who, like me, landed in New York City. The United States was then nearing the end...
View ArticleHow the CIA Destabilizes the World
There are three basic problems with the CIA: its objectives, methods, and unaccountability. Its operational objectives are whatever the CIA or the President of the United States defines to be in the...
View ArticleThrowing Good Money After Bad in Ukraine?
As U.S. House members grapple with whether to give $60 billion more to Ukraine, they must also grapple with the checkered nature of the intelligence they’ve been fed. On July 13, 2023, President Joe...
View ArticleWhy Won’t Biden Wave the Magic Wand in His Hand to Stop Israel?
As Israel’s war on Gaza continues unabated, the United States, which holds great leverage over Israel’s conduct, is seemingly helpless in stopping the genocide of Palestinians from being carried out...
View Article“Emergent” AI Behavior and Human Destiny
Yes, it’s already time to be worried — very worried. As the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have shown, the earliest drone equivalents of “killer robots” have made it onto the battlefield and proved to be...
View ArticleThe October 7th America Has Forgotten
We Americans have been at war now since October 7th, 2001. That was when our military first launched air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to al-Qaeda’s September 11th terrorist...
View ArticleIsrael Kills 104 Palestinians Waiting for Food Aid as U.N. Expert Accuses...
In Gaza City, at least 104 Palestinian refugees were killed Thursday when Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd waiting for food aid. “This isn’t the first time people have been shot at by Israeli...
View ArticleThe American Empire in (Ultimate?) Crisis
Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the...
View ArticleRami Khouri on Israeli Attacks in Lebanon, Suffering in Gaza &“Amateurish”...
Israel is expanding its attacks in Lebanon, with Hamas ally Hezbollah launching a barrage of over 100 rockets at Israel in response. Tens of thousands of residents of northern Israel and southern...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Election in the Crosshairs of New U.S. Regime Change Scheme
Twenty-five years after Hugo Chávez took office and began the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, U.S. officials have still not tired of dreaming up new plots to overthrow the country’s government....
View ArticleWhat The U.S. Media Isn’t Telling You About The Protests In Cuba
On March 17, people in Santiago, a city in Eastern Cuba, took to the streets to protest the increased blackouts and food shortages they have been experiencing. The protest occurred as shortages...
View ArticleThe Iraq War Remade the World in Its Grisly Image
The failure to reckon with the people and the politics that made the Iraq War happen is one of the most tragic and significant oversights in recent history. To understand where we are today, in terms...
View ArticleUN Charter, UN Credibility and Unlawful Unilateral Coercive Measures
Statement before the United Nations Security Council, Arria Formula Meeting, 25 March 2024. Excellencies, distinguished delegates, The unlawfulness of unilateral coercive measures imposed by certain...
View ArticleRalph Nader: Bomber Biden Doesn’t Wage Peace, Save Civilians or Listen to...
Joe Biden has long had a problem with PEACE – as in “ceasefires,” “serious peace negotiations,” and conditioning the transfer or sale of major weapons systems as required by five U.S. criminal...
View ArticleBiden Is Undermining the UN to Protect Israel’s War
The Israeli war on Gaza has already been an unprecedented, literal war on the United Nations, with more than 160 UN workers killed, the highest death toll of UN staff in history, and more than 150 UN...
View ArticleEpic Fail
Dressed in green military fatigues and a blue garrison cap, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for Niger’s ruling junta, took to local television last month to criticize the United States...
View ArticleRoundtable on Current U.S. Foreign Policy: Militarism Unhinged
I invited three insightful analysts of present-day U.S. foreign policy to share their thoughts in a roundtable discussion. Here are excerpts from Phyllis Bennis, Jackson Lears and Jeffrey Sachs. —...
View ArticleA Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender
The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing...
View ArticleSenator Cardin Must Help End the Blockade of Cuba
Cuba is going hungry. The costs of food and other basic necessities are skyrocketing. Rolling blackouts periodically plunge the island into darkness. Parents struggle to find milk for their children....
View ArticleUS Vetos Palestine’s Bid for UN membership
On 18 May the Security Council was seized of a resolution that would have granted UN membership to Palestine.Twelve members of the SC voted in favor of the resolution, while two countries – the UK and...
View ArticleHouse Passes $95 Billion Foreign War Bills
US lawmakers passed a raft of legislation containing some $95 billion in military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, also approving a bill that will allow Washington to hand Kiev assets seized from...
View ArticleThe Irony: Israel’s Supporters use ‘woke’ Playbook to Censor Palestinian Voices
In recent years, a new line of attack has emerged from many pro-Israel groups, conservative commentators, politicians and activists – the idea that “wokeness” and oversensitivity to giving offence are...
View ArticleUS House awards Israel $26 Billion so it can go on Killing or Wounding a...
The US House of Representatives voted $26 billion for Israel on Saturday to reward it for its ongoing war crimes against Palestinians. Some 58 members voted against the measure, including 37 Democrats....
View ArticleUkraine War Funding & Failed Russian Sanctions
This past weekend, April 20, 2024 the US House of Representatives passed a bill to provide Ukraine with another $61 billion in aid. The measure will quickly pass the Senate and be signed into law by...
View ArticleWhy Does the US Government Support And Fund Israel?
Environmentalists have learned the investigative rule to “follow the money”. At the core of important environmental issues, it is NOT good vs bad guys, nor cultural wokeness vs anti-wokeness, nor smart...
View ArticleUS vs. China: Who Really Stands for Peace?
Thousands of innocent civilians are dying– men, women, children– being bombed to death as they sit in their homes. Thousands of Ukrainian and Russian men have been unwillingly drafted into the...
View ArticleIsrael Wants to Destroy Gaza, Annex the West Bank: But What Does Gaza Want?
What is taking place in occupied Palestine is not a conflict, but a straightforward case of illegal military occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and outright genocide. Those who insist on using...
View ArticleJune 10: Appeals Court to Hear Biden Genocide Case – Palestinians Seek End to...
May 7, 2024, San Francisco, CA – Palestinian human rights organizations, Palestinians, and Palestinian-Americans continue to press their case against President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and...
View ArticleThe US Continues To Provide Cover For Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains set in his plans to invade Rafah, with or without US assistance. Responding to US President Joe Biden’s warning earlier this week that arms supplies...
View ArticleUS-Backed Philippine Government Committed War Crimes, People’s Tribunal Finds
Gaza is not the only place where Joe Biden’s government is aiding and abetting atrocities. Following a hearing on May 17-18, the International People’s Tribunal on War Crimes in the Philippines found...
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