Tag: Middle East
The myth of “moderate rebels” in Syria
They aren't moderate, they aren't Syrian, and they aren't rebels.
In God (and Trump) we trust… With monster bombs!!
I just don't think he blessed that Monster Bomb or all the other WMDs that your tax money is paying for... instead of better roads, infrastructure, health care...
Syrian war for dummies – Three versions
Three versions of the conflict are presented here and the reader can choose the one that makes the most sense.
The “mother of all bombs” killed ISIS fighters – but poor...
One researcher reports that local farmers believed the bomb was nuclear and that they’d been exposed to radiation.
Trump’s attack on Syria; a wag the dog or a false...
If Trump had any credibility then perhaps his account of what happened might not even be questioned.
Why these missile strikes won’t make things better for the Syrian...
There are serious questions as to whether Trump’s bombing of the Syrian base has anything to do with protecting civilians.
The spoils of war: Trump lavished with media and bipartisan praise...
The one constant of American political life is that the U.S. loves war. Martin Luther King’s 1967 denunciation of the U.S. as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today” is more accurate than ever.
Cassius was correct
How many Amerikans, like the good Germans in 1940, cheered the carpet bombing of Iraq, and the subsequent invasion?
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How the UN can act decisively to end genocide in Gaza
Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly can take decisive action to end the genocide in Gaza, by authorizing a UN-backed arms embargo, economic boycott and divestment campaign against Israel, or even a military protection force for Gaza.
Appeals court rejects Trump’s wartime deportation claim under Alien Enemies Act
Fifth Circuit finds no “invasion” or “predatory incursion,” blocks Alien Enemies Act removals from Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi while due process issues return to lower court.
Scores of climate experts condemn Trump climate report as ‘junk science’
“It reads like a list of common climate skeptic tropes—long ago rebutted by the scientific community—being rehashed by a group of disgruntled scientists.”
Trump says America’s oil industry is cleaner than other countries’. New data shows massive...
Does Texas, the heart of America’s oil and gas industry, tell a different story?
AI death panels or cost control? Medicare pilot hands denials to private algorithms
Federal pilot in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington will pay private A.I. firms a cut of “savings,” prompting warnings of “AI death panels” and the “very worst of private insurance.”