Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Tag: Syria

The enemy of my enemy is my…?

The Saudi-American-Iranian-Russian-Qatari-Syrian conundrum.

Sy Hersh, exposer of My Lai and Abu Ghraib, strikes again,...

What if you write a critically important story and nobody will print it?

Why does Donald Trump insist on more military spending?

Americans are tired of war, yet Donald Trump’s budget sends an unfortunate but clear message.

Can the U.S. establish a ‘deconfliction’ with Russia in Syria?

The U.S. said late Monday that it would try to reestablish “deconfliction” with the Russians. A lot is riding on whether they do.

Where have all the children gone?

The loss of childhood and the cruel removal of any sense of hope or of a secure future have been seeping into global discourse about children for many years now.

The tragedy of forced displacement

The solutions to this major crisis, and indeed many of our problems, would naturally flow from the recognition of the fact that we are brothers and sisters of one humanity.

The U.S. and Turkey are deeply divided over Syria policy

Can Trump get his magpie mind around the complexities of Syria?

Donald Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors

But what if Donald Trump were actually held responsible for real crimes?

The myth of “moderate rebels” in Syria

They aren't moderate, they aren't Syrian, and they aren't rebels.

Trump sends troops to the Turkish-Syrian border

Trump is in the position of trying to separate and make peace among two American allies.

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What else but seething, punitive MAGA grievance explains its undying loyalty – absent real-world...

Whatever MAGA lives lack, brutalizing the even less powerful won’t resolve their miseries.

Seven children killed in Israeli strike on Gaza water site amid growing evidence of...

As Israel admits to a “technical error” in a drone strike that killed children waiting for water, new reports detail a systemic campaign of targeting Gaza’s basic survival infrastructure under U.S. and Western-backed military operations.

Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool

Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.

Donald Trump’s greatest ‘triumph’

I’m thinking, of course, about climate change.

‘Unforgivable’: FEMA failure during Texas floods tied to Noem’s contract purge and Trump-era sabotage

More than 80% of survivor calls went unanswered after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly cut FEMA’s contractor workforce—days after deadly flooding devastated Texas.