If you're like most people, you don't go around killing or assaulting others. You probably would never think of torturing, raping, kidnapping, or confining your fellow men and women. I doubt if you'd think that stealing or vandalizing their belongings would be a good...
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TGIF: The Nonintervention Principle
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 21, 2020 | Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Anyone old enough to think about "America's" role in the world ought to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. For example, one ought to be able to argue firmly against U.S. intervention in other countries without feeling obliged to downplay or deny the real...

TGIF: Anti-BDS Laws Violate Our Freedom
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 14, 2020 | Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Americans’ free-speech and other rights are being violated by state laws aimed at stifling the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Movement against Israel’s illegal rule of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, both conquered over half a century ago....

TGIF: Trump Would Make Palestinian Subjugation Permanent
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 31, 2020 | Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The fundamental flaw at the heart of Trump’s Palestine/Israel plan, presumptuously titled Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People, is that Trump -- like his predecessors -- believes that the Israelis are the aggrieved...

Trump Lays an Egg: The Israel/Palestine Vision
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 29, 2020 | Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman
Trump's long-dreaded diktat to the Palestinians is now public. (See details here and here if you have the stomach for them.) The so-called plan of the century -- the "Vision" -- is pretty much what the early reports described, so I have little to add to what I wrote...
TGIF: Warmonger Cotton Accuses Antiwar Think Tank of Anti-Semitism
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 17, 2020 | Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
If you wonder what the post-Trump Republican Party will look like, take a glimpse at Tom Cotton, one of the US senators from Arkansas (where I live). Cotton has waged a relentless campaign for war against Iran and has supported every horror produced by the US...
TGIF: Trump’s Escalation Imperils Innocents
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 10, 2020 | Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
While an eerie, surreal calm has fallen over US-Iranian relations, I wouldn’t assume we’re out of the woods yet. Trump had no reason to be confident that Iran’s response to his most recent escalation of violence would be little more than symbolic. Although he’s...
TGIF: But Mr. Trump, Is Israel Lovable?
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 13, 2019 | Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Speaking before Sheldon Adelson's Israeli-American Council the other day, Trump took a shot at Jewish Americans who he says don't "love Israel enough." "We have to get the people of our country, of this country, to love Israel more," Trump said. "We have to get them...