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The curtailed meeting was itself met with protests, including from Palestinian American emergency room physician Dr. Thaer Ahmad, who walked out after handing Biden a letter from an 8-year-old orphaned Palestinian girl

As U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland move toward sanctions relief, frozen assets, and a Hormuz hotline, the unresolved war in Lebanon remains the central obstacle to turning a fragile memorandum into peace.

Such is the pernicious price of pursuing a vision that insists on global reach, global power, and global dominance.

The new bill, C-51, could label anyone who disagrees with neo-liberal aims as a “terrorist." With a Conservative majority in Parliament and support from the Liberal Party, it seems the final bill will pass quite easily only to create an emergence of a deep police state.

Americans paid nearly $60 billion more at the pump this spring than a year earlier, and the Gulf shipping crisis shows no sign of easing before the price hits again.

These observers traffic in illusions about a virtually omnipotent U.S. that can indefinitely control the world through force of arms, consequence-free.

Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American man who lives in Ohio, traveled to the occupied West Bank on Monday to help relatives defend their family home in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus.

Absolutely Everything (As Far as Washington Is Concerned)

As we spiral toward a confrontation between the U.S. and Iran, it’s worth reflecting on the failures to rein in U.S. aggression along the way.

On whose behalf is AIPAC intervening in American domestic politics? Juan Cole discusses the only logical possibility, which is that AIPAC is acting on behalf of the Likud government of Israel.