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Americans Have Learned Nothing Since 9/11
We should never forget that American civilians were blindsided twenty-three years ago this month when a small group of mostly Saudis and Egyptians hijacked our civilian airliners in a kamikaze mission that murdered thousands. Though none of them were Palestinian, the...
Pager-palooza: The Remote Detonation Arms Race Begins
If Israel had this mass remote detonation capability a year ago, why level Gaza when surgical strikes would have sent a more clear message and not set the entire global Islamic world against them (even worse and more vociferously than before)? Inquiring minds want to...
The Canard of a ‘Hamiltonian Foreign Policy’
Walter Russell Mead asserts in a new piece in Foreign Affairs that what he labels “Jacksonian national populism” and “Jeffersonian isolationism” have both made a significant comeback in the twenty-first century. According to Mead, George W. Bush’s 2003 invasion of...
News Roundup 8/29/2024
US News US to Ramp Up Military Support for Kenyan Operations in Haiti The Institute France French Authorities Issue Preliminary Charges Against Telegram CEO AWC Ukraine EU Considers Training Ukrainian Troops Inside Ukraine AWC China US Military Open To Escorting...
U.S.-Zionist Imperialism and the Middle East
A rich country leads the receiving end of U.S. foreign aid, including help for waging wars in the Middle East. This is the case of Israel, whose illegitimate origin is today considered throughout the world as the clearest of all states. Even a large part of the...
Mali Cuts Ties with Ukraine Over Kiev’s Support for Al-Qaeda
Mali has severed its diplomatic ties with Ukraine following an attack by the local Al-Qaeda affiliate on Malian forces. Kiev called the move short-sighted. Late last month, opposition forces, including an al Qaeda affiliate in the Sahel, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam...
America’s Syrian Gulag
At the beginning of last month the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Ethan Goldrich, granted an interview to Rudaw, which is something like PBS for Iraqi Kurdistan. He emphasized that the United States has no plan to end its occupation...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War
Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...