Do we have a shortage of female heroes in this country? Are virtuous women that scarce? Or is it simply that Women's History Month, by eliminating women from the conversation who don't fit the narrative of the State Department and the Pentagon, failed to achieve its...
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Well it seems like only yesterday, though it was half a lifetime ago. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their men and women, especially the neoconservatives, knowingly and deliberately lied this country into starting an aggressive war against Iraq—a war they pretended...
Since 1987, March has been officially celebrated as Women's History Month, when the National Women's History Project successfully petitioned Congress to pass Pub. L. 100-9. And our chief diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, made sure to show his support by...
On Thursday the The New York Times ran yet another report about Saudi Arabia’s entry into an “Abraham Accord,” but if only certain conditions could be met. It quoted longtime Israel lobby heavyweight Martin Indyk and reported on the American Israel Public Affairs...
Until it happened, it was unthinkable. The United States has for decades guarded its role as the sole negotiator in the Middle East. It has insisted on being the chief arbiter of agreements and the architect and decider of partnerships. But on March 10, China emerged...
An older generation of Americans, including Jewish Americans, admire the colonists who resisted the British king and parliament in the late 1700s. Jewish Americans go further and admire the Judeans who revolted against the Greeks and Romans (twice) in antiquity. So...
Accountability. This, according to Kate Kizer and Scott Paul, is the solution Yemenis need. We're supposed to believe that the same people who have contributed to the atrocities inflicted upon the people of Yemen, led by the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates, with...
