Friday, December 26, 2025

Biden must call off the B-52s bombing Afghan cities

As we approach the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we should reflect on how the Bush administration exploited the U.S. public’s thirst for revenge to unleash this bloody, tragic and utterly futile 20-year war.

The USA’s systemic racism includes its wars

Hidden in plain sight is the fact that virtually all the people killed by U.S. firepower in the “war on terror” for more than two decades have been people of color.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Palestine visit revealed the plain, brutal truth of apartheid

His new book, The Message, is based in part on his visit last year to Israel and the occupied West Bank, where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States.

You Must Be Kidding! Adventures in an American World of Frustration

Assassination, previously an illegal act, has become the heart and soul of Washington’s way of life.

Guantánamo’s last 100 days

The story that never was.

A good deed from the wicked witch?

Actually ending the war in Afghanistan...

Russia, NATO, and the future of neutrality

Neither the formerly non-aligned of Europe nor the currently non-aligned of the Global South are interested in furthering Vladimir Putin’s imperial ambitions.

I could not stay silent: Annelle Sheline resigns from State Dept. over U.S. Gaza...

A State Department human rights officer resigns in protest of U.S. backing for Israel's actions in Gaza, urging a reevaluation of policies that clash with American values.
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Noam Chomsky: The real effect of the recent U.S. bombings in Syria and Afghanistan

In a clip from a recent talk at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Chomsky discusses the Trump administration’s recent military strikes on Syria and Afghanistan.

The honeymoon of the generals

Or why Trump’s wars should seem so familiar.