Monday, May 6, 2024

Preparing for doomsday

A shelter-in-place mentality Is the New American normal.

A new year and a new Trump foreign policy blunder in Iraq

We hope that 2020 will be the year when the American public finally looks at the fateful choice between war and peace with 20/20 vision.

Unforeseen consequences in Mali

The destabilization of the country is at least partially a result of the NATO intervention in nearby Libya

No indication in the US that the country is at war again

Keeping it normal in the world's leading rogue nation.

A chance to hold Israel—and the US—to account for genocide

As the first hearing approaches, Israeli officials have doubled down on explicit statements of genocidal intent behind the massacre in Gaza, while U.S. efforts to insulate itself from them remain unconvincing.

US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking...

It does no good tinkering around the edges of the war machine’s environmental impact.

Middle East – How America shot itself in the foot

The U.S. needs to learn the art of diplomacy instead of spending a lot of time constantly demonizing and threatening other countries.

Saving America and the world by slashing US military spending

Instead, we need to spend this huge totally wasted share of our national wealth on our own long neglected social needs and on saving this country and world from an increasingly obvious looming environmental catastrophe.

Canada and Sweden defy global trend: Rush to aid Palestinians as Israel faces torture...

Is this pivotal decision, which marks a significant shift in the geopolitical landscape, spotlighting the urgent humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza?

September 11 and the debacle of ‘nation-building’ in Iraq and Afghanistan

Nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq was the resurrection of a doctrine that should have been buried after Vietnam.