Tzav 9 has targeted humanitarian aid trucks traveling through the West Bank to Gaza The US blacklisted an Israeli organization for interfering with aid shipments headed to Gaza. The group, Tzav 9, demands that no aid enter the Strip until all Israeli hostages are...
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Israel Claims to Open Aid Corridor Near Rafah
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 17, 2024 | News
A spokesman for the Israeli military downplayed the move, saying there would be no ceasefire or change in policy Israel announced on Sunday that it would pause military operations during daylight hours along a seven-mile stretch of road in Gaza to relieve a backlog of...
Sham-ocracy, Scam-ocracy
by Laurie Calhoun | Jun 17, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The word "democracy" is bandied about rhetorically by politicians on a regular basis to rationalize whatever it is that they want to do. This tendency has increased markedly in recent times as so-called wars of democracy and campaigns to save or preserve democracy are...
Robert Fisk – The Road to Palestine – Anti-War Blog
by Kym Robinson | Jun 15, 2024 | Blog
In Part Two of his Three part series, From Beirut to Bosnia, Robert Fisk gives detail to the tragedy of Palestine. As it was then when the series was made, 1993, the people of Palestine had already suffered tremendously. A lost people, those blamed for the crimes of...
Not All Cops Are Child Rapists
by Scott Horton | Jun 13, 2024 | Blog
But alot of them are. And they always get away with it because all judges are accessories to child rape. They go home and tell their wives and kids at dinner, "I did my job today. I helped a cop get away with raping a kid. Those cops sure do love raping kids. Those...
Up Against The War – Anti-War Blog
by Kym Robinson | Jun 13, 2024 | Blog
In her 1970 book, Up Against The War, Norma Sue Woodstone gives voice to those who refused conscription and campaigned against the US war in South-East Asia. Men who refused the draft were tarred by polite society as being cowards, ‘Draft Dodgers!’ A slur to be thrown...
Rights for the Synthetic
by Kym Robinson | Jun 13, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
"The future of human-AI coexistence depends on acknowledging the potential for sentient machines and reevaluating responsibilities towards them. It's crucial to consider the ethical implications of creating beings that may possess their own interests, desires, and...
UN Report Details Israeli War Crimes During First Months of War on Gaza
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 12, 2024 | News
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) provides a detailed analysis of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and the Israeli assault on Gaza. The report finds both sides committed war crimes but concludes there is no evidence to support the...
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Doubling Down on Failure: Ford Fiasco Follies
A new updated CRS report dated 5 August 2024 is out on the USS Ford debacle. I read these reports so you don't have to. For plenty of reasons, the carrier is the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Yet the US insists on spending tens of billions of dollars on...
The Case for Not Voting
Bretigne Shaffer and I explain why, if you want to effect real change, the most sensible thing you can do is to not vote.
The Royal Navy Submarine Force Remains Surfaced
The Royal Navy is experiencing readiness and maintenance shortfalls in its submarine force that is similar to the throughput problems for the US nuclear submarine forces. The logistical tail for exquisite platforms like nuclear submarines is enormous and a first world...
The F35 Follies: Britannia Rules a Little
My recommendation to the British MoD: don't buy anymore of these flying failure factories. U.K. planned to buy138 F-35s, bought 48, delivered 35, aims at 75 by 2025. Judging from the delays and failures universally in the program, achieving a delivery of all...
Anti-War Blog – Not Enough Paper Cranes
When I was in primary school we were taught about a little Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki and her paper cranes. She was one of the many victims of the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast, dying after the initial detonation from radiation sickness. One of many thousands who...
Speaking of democracy…
Democracy has been a much discussed topic of late, what with the separation of President Joe Biden from his delegates only weeks before the upcoming Democratic party convention, to be held in Chicago from August 19 to 22, 2024. There have been brokered conventions in...
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