Sunday, December 21, 2025

Iraqis rise up against 16 years of ‘made in the USA’ corruption

“Protesters are demanding the overthrow of a political class seen as corrupt and serving foreign powers."

A sliver of hope in the Syrian cease-fire

The American military may enjoy the blank check given to them by the Trump Administration, but they may come to regret it when he shifts all of the blame onto their shoulders the moment something goes wrong. 
A picture of Kim Jong Un

Trump vs. Kim Jong Un: Two loose cannons, a monumental nightmare in the making

Trump and his generals better be very careful before deciding to launch a pre-emptive strike.

Credit-card wars

It’s time for Americans worried about living in a country whose inequality gap could soon surpass that of the Gilded Age to begin paying real attention to our “credit-card wars.”

Energy Wars of Attrition

In the end, the oil attrition wars may lead us not into a future of North American triumphalism, nor even to a more modest Saudi version of the same, but into a strange new world in which an unlimited capacity to produce oil meets an increasingly crippled capitalist system without the capacity to absorb it.

10,000 Palestinians buried beneath Gaza’s rubble as families dig by hand

With more than 10,000 bodies still trapped under the ruins of Gaza, families search with shovels and bare hands while aid agencies warn that recovery could take years amid explosives, disease, and ongoing destruction.

Personal interview: Lee Camp What are the Prospects for Peace?

Lee Camp directly address the role of the U.S. in the escalating tensions and its capacity to reduce them.

Doomsday redux

The most dangerous weapon ever rolls off the nuclear assembly line.

Thou Shalt Not Kill

The U.S. military machine has committed egregious war crimes and serves not to democracy or freedom, but corporate profit. We should think before we bow to glorious violence and war.

Nine young children killed: The full details of botched U.S. raid in Yemen

Together Yemeni soldiers and U.S. air power only succeeded in driving the terrorists into the mountains.