Friday, April 19, 2024

Facing famine, 20 million people need food, not bombs

Famine in these four countries is avoidable.

The war in questions

Making sense of the age of carnage.
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Close-up of death culture: 1,000 in entertainment biz proclaim support for Gaza slaughter

How many more Palestinian civilians will Israel murder before such “support for Israel” begins to waver?
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Palestinian American woman tries to save family in Gaza after her mom dies awaiting...

We speak with Narmin Abushaban in Detroit whose mother died from lack of medical care while waiting to leave Gaza; she is working now to rescue the rest of her family members.

Hedges: Chronicle of a war foretold

After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity to prevail.

A terrible precedent: The assassination of Qassam Soleimani

The assassination of a popular leader like Soleimani and the lack of evidence presented about imminent plots he was supposedly engaged in, may empower other countries to take similar actions in the future, a slippery slope indeed.

Bush Administration Ignored Multiple Detailed Pre-9/11 Warnings

New information has emerged that further details how the Bush administration ignored warnings of an impending Al Qaeda attack on U.S. soil. Did they really believe they did everything in their power to prevent it, or did the administration cover up their pre-9/11 knowledge?

Talon Anvil, Task Force 9 and the terrible cost of the air offensive in...

Subsidizing militarism in search of monsters overseas seems more and more like the American way. With the new focus on near peer competitors like Russia and China, the dangers are only growing.

“Nothing short of a slaughter”: 1 million Syrians in Aleppo under siege with no...

The United Nations is warning nearly 1 million Syrians are living under siege, double the number last year.

Cassius was correct

How many Amerikans, like the good Germans in 1940, cheered the carpet bombing of Iraq, and the subsequent invasion?