Ukraine: The refugee double standard
This war has unleashed new, overt, and cruel manifestations of racism on the continent, revealing longstanding double standards at the global level.
“Thank you for your service”: pardons for war criminals and indifference for those damaged...
I can’t remember who recently said it, but the point has been made that we often call people heroes because it’s easier to sacrifice them when they’re given this honorific and simply move on.
Trump & Biden’s secret bombing wars
President Biden cannot restore the world’s respect for American leadership, or the American public’s support for our foreign policy, by piling more lies, secrets and atrocities on top of those he has inherited.
Israelis invade Syria: Who will stop Israel?
Israel's latest land-grab in Syria, and the UN and the rest of the world's inability to stop Israel from ignoring and violating the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention.
An hour with Noam Chomsky on fascism, nuclear weapons, climate change, Julian Assange &...
"They’re things like climate change, like global warming, like the Nuclear Posture Review, deregulation. These are real issues. But the Democrats aren’t going after those."
US cyber attack on Russia’s power grid is an ‘act of war’ (according to...
How about an international negotiation to end mutual cyber attacks that would include international controls and monitoring, and penalties for violations?
A second American Civil War?
A second civil war? Probably not. But the way Trump and his defenders are behaving, it’s not absurd to imagine serious social unrest.
Murder as messaging
Under Trump, U.S. foreign policy hits violent new lows.
The geopolitics of the Ukraine War
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in the Struggle over Eurasia.
The hawks who want war with Iran are working overtime
As the saboteurs of diplomacy hope for a violent escalation, let’s keep in mind, and hope Iran agrees, that the best revenge would be a revived JCPOA.