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Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy
1 August 2025 @ 11:38 am
When Donald Trump entered the White House for his second term as president, he had an excellent opportunity to extricate the United States from the quagmire war between Russia and Ukraine. His instincts–that continued involvement in that conflict was not in America’s best interests—were sound. Indeed, he signaled throughout the 2024 presidential campaign that he […]
The War of Empires: A Review of Paul Chamberlin’s Scorched Earth
1 August 2025 @ 12:00 am
Paul Chamberlin’s masterful new book, Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II, is a vitally important work that fundamentally reframes our understanding of the twentieth century’s most devastating conflict. It meticulously dismantles the comfortable and enduring narrative of a simple “good versus evil” struggle, replacing it with a more complex and unsettling truth: […]
House Committee Revives Proposal for ‘Automatic’ Draft Registration
1 August 2025 @ 12:00 am
For the second successive year, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has included an ill-considered and unworkable proposal by the Selective Service System (SSS) to try to automatically construct a database of potential draftees from other government records collected for other purposes in the House version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The […]
Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers
30 July 2025 @ 12:00 am
When, in his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the unwarranted influence wielded by a partnership between the military and a growing cohort of U.S. weapons contractors and came up with the ominous term “military-industrial complex,” he could never have imagined quite how large and powerful that complex would become. In […]
Abandoning Ukraine
29 July 2025 @ 12:00 am
The war with Russia is now going very badly for Ukraine. But Ukrainians must feel like the world, and not just Russia, is treating them badly. At the beginning of July, the Russian armed forces took full control of the Luhansk region for the first time. And, though it is too early to tell if […]
West Bank: Would Annexation Include Citizenship For The Annexed?
29 July 2025 @ 12:00 am
On July 23, the Israeli Knesset voted 71 to 13 in favor of a “non-binding” motion to “annex” the West Bank, where Palestinian Arabs have lived under Israeli military occupation since 1967. Naturally, Knesset speaker Amir Ohana disagrees with that plain statement of fact. Channeling Adolf Hitler’s ethno-nationalist claims on Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, Austria, etc., Ohana proclaimed that […]
The Genocidal Partnership of Israel and the United States
29 July 2025 @ 12:00 am
For decades, countless U.S. officials have proclaimed that the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable. Now, the ties that bind are laced with genocide. The two countries function as accomplices while methodical killing continues in Gaza, with both societies directly – and differently – making it all possible. The policies of Israel’s government […]
Militarized Law Enforcement Reaches a New Level under Trump
28 July 2025 @ 12:00 am
Law enforcement in the United States has exhibited an exceptional degree of harshness, if not outright brutality, during the initial months of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House. A majority of the most flagrant examples have involved enforcement actions by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division. Numerous stories […]
Beyond Gaza’s Shadow: The Unseen War for the West Bank’s Future
28 July 2025 @ 12:00 am
Israel is meticulously following a textbook model of instigating unrest in the occupied West Bank. The latest such provocations consisted of stripping the Palestinian-run Hebron (Al-Khalil) municipality of its administrative powers over the venerable Ibrahimi Mosque. Worse, according to Israel Hayom, it granted these powers to the religious council of the Kiryat Arba Jewish settlement, […]
The Rise of the Jewish Dual State
25 July 2025 @ 12:00 am
Ever since the Six-Day-War (1967) and the occupation of Palestinian territories, Israel has witnessed the rise of the Messianic far-right settler Jews. In my The Fall of Israel, I describe in detail this process, which entered a new stage after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the effective demise of the “peace process.” […]