I would agree with this only in the sense that the occupied territories are less like the former South African apartheid and more like the Warsaw Ghetto. By Giles Fraser, The Unherd Arnold Schwarzenegger meant well, but there was nonetheless something ill-judged about his borrowing the term Kristallnacht to […]
Krystal Ball reacts to the Israeli airstrike that destroyed a building in Gaza containing major media outlets.
“Go back to sleep, Joe” said Bibi. Israel will only change its ways if it experiences intense pressure from the USA (“No change, zero aid”), and that will only happen if there is intense domestic and global pressure on the USA. We need a BDS on steroids, crystal […]
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By Philip Giraldi But Biden gives Israel more weapons even while Gaza is bleeding May 18, 2021 An interesting recent article by international lawyer John Whitbeck suggests that the billions of dollars that the United States gives to Israel annually is not technically “foreign aid” as the Jewish […]
Israel is bombing Gaza, while extremists ethnically cleanse Palestinians. Ali Abunimah and Rania Khalek join Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, and Anya Parampil to discuss the colonial violence – and indigenous resistance.
By Kim Iversen “Israel has been targeting the press in Gaza in an attempt to cover up their obvious war crimes. They just blew up the building housing the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. They gave the press an hour to evacuate. Yesterday they blew up a building […]
They say that like it’s a bad thing. Baltimore Jewish Life, Staff Report IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Hidai Zilberman deflects criticism of the bombing of media office building in the Gaza Strip. IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Hidai Zilberman deflected criticism of the military’s actions in the Gaza Strip on Sunday […]
By Lubna Masarwa, Frank Andrews, Middle East Eye Far-right Israeli groups are planning to mount further attacks against Palestinians in Israel on Thursday night, according to group chat messages seen by MEE, after a night of mob attacks, crackdowns by Israeli security forces and deaths across Israel, the […]
By MARIA CARRASCO, Politico The House on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to restrict arms sales to Saudi Arabia over its killing of the U.S.-based dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The bill, H.R. 1392, would bar sales, authorizations and transfer of arms and other defense services from the president to […]
What he says about Saudi Arabia is interesting. Professor at Georgetown University, Trita Parsi, breaks down Iran’s statement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses how Western media has failed in its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Are the tides turning? It would appear so. Look for the US-Israel relationship to become increasingly contentious in domestic US politics in the future. Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim break down the latest updates in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
Kind of like some other folks who have been in the news lately. By Robert Barnett, Foreign Policy Since 2015, a previously unnoticed network of roads, buildings, and military outposts has been constructed deep in a sacred valley in Bhutan. READ MORE
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I am a transwoman of no color. I am an agoraphobic welfare queen. I am a genderqueer millennial who has been diagnosed with virtually every mental illness in the DSM. I am intersectional but my existence is not […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave a speech on the House floor in support of Palestinian rights.
In our interview with John Pilger first broadcast in 2018, John Pilger discusses UK arms sales to Israel which have been used against the occupied population of Palestine calls Israel the watchdog of the US and UK which keeps arms markets well-nourished and the Middle East in constant […]
By Israel Shahak and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research One of our most popular articles, first published on March 1st, 2013 *** Today, May 13, 2021, we commemorate The Nakba. 73 years ago on May 13, 1948. The Palestinian Catastrophe prevails. In a 2018 report, the United Nations stated that Gaza had […]
VICE embeds with the London branch of the Neturei Karta, a group of controversial Ultra Orthodox Jews who campaign against Zionism and for the immediate dismantling of the state of Israel. Because of their unusual views, and support of people like ex-Iranian president Ahmadinejad and groups like the […]
Yep. By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout Successive Israeli governments have been trying for years to push Palestinians out of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and the latest round of Israeli attacks fall in line with that goal. But to understand the roots of the current escalation — and the […]
I don’t know many Internet debates I’ve had with “pro-Israel” types who will always assume “But da rocket attacks…” is an ace in the hole. To which I always casually respond that I am pro-rocket attacks.
Since the national strike began in #Colombia on April 28, 39 protestors have been killed by police. In #Israel, 139 people including children have been murdered. BOTH bankrolled by the U.S.
By Alex Kane, The Intercept On May 6, right-wing Israeli officials descended on Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, to show their support for the settler movement’s push to displace Palestinian residents and take their homes. One of the officials was Aryeh King, a deputy mayor […]
Update on the evening of Day 4 of #Gaza escalation:— 950 injured and 126 killed (including 31 children and 20 women) since Israel’s ‘Operation Guardian of the Walls’ started in Gaza Israel intensifies attacks, — ‘worse than 2014 war’ —, continuing aerial bombardment using ‘insane force,’ flattening buildings. […]
By Bernie Sanders, New York Times “Israel has the right to defend itself.” These are the words we hear from both Democratic and Republican administrations whenever the government of Israel, with its enormous military power, responds to rocket attacks from Gaza. Let’s be clear. No one is arguing […]
Democracy Now As the death toll in Gaza reaches at least 119 amid Israel’s escalation of its aerial assault, Congressmember Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the first Palestinian American woman elected to Congress, delivered a powerful speech on the House floor Thursday to denounce the violence and attempted erasure […]
This is quite good.
Good overview.
Saager’s and Krystal’s comments in this are good. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to President Joe Biden’s discussion with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
I always thought Yang was weak on foreign policy, particularly Israel, which is why I thought Tulsi Gabbard and Marianne Williamson were better candidates than Yang. A good litmus test as to whether someone is a genuinely “anti-system” figure is the degree to which they are critical of […]
This is one of the most comical editorials I have read in a while. Christian Science Monitor Biden has shored up four key allies – and their democratic ideals – against next-door aggressors. During his early months in office, President Joe Biden has taken an unusual approach to […]
It’s rather ironic that “woke” America’s two closest allies are an ethnostate and a theocratic absolute monarchy.
Austin’s comments fit the general pattern of a shift toward soft power, outsourcing imperial functions to client state and proxy forces, and greater reliance on technology. By Robert Burns, The Associated Press NAVAL STATION PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — In his first major speech as Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin […]
By Andrew Higgins, Washington Post Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor’s bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile’s trajectory back to an “enormous, stupid mistake” made 30 years ago. “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” says Mr. Cohen, a […]
By Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post All signs indicate that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to wage a protracted battle in the battered Gaza Strip as it seeks to crush the capabilities of the Islamist militant group Hamas. The ongoing conflict has already exacted a […]
By Mehdi Hasan, Dina Sayedahmed What do you know about Hamas? That it’s sworn to destroy Israel? That it’s a terrorist group, proscribed both by the United States and the European Union? That it rules Gaza with an iron fist? That it’s killed hundreds of innocent Israelis with […]
Yang was always weak on Israel/Palestine. ANDREW YANG UNITES THE LEFT! Everyone from Vaush to Kyle Kulinski to Virgil Texas to Chelsea Manning to Abby Martin to Aaron Mate to Ryan Knight to Eddie Huang to David Doel is calling out Andrew Yang over an extremely offensive Tweet […]
By Andrew Bacevich, The American Conservative In President Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress, military issues figured as an afterthought. Yet implicit in his presentation was a potential shift in basic U.S. policy from activism to restraint. The central purpose of American military power, he announced, […]
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He’s probably okay for mayor of NYC but keep him away from the presidency. Andrew Yang’s recent dehumanizing and pandering statements (https://twitter.com/kthalps/status/13…) in support of Israel as it engages in ethnic cleansing have rightfully earned him criticism. But, as Abby Martin already pointed out, Yang has a history […]
Abby Martin explores what’s missing from coverage of Biden’s announcement of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
By Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss Some day historians will scratch their heads over the fact that for the better part of 20 years U.S. presidents were engaged as a leading foreign policy question in how to restrain Iran, a small country half the world away that has not attacked […]
By Alan McLeod, MROnline riginally published: FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) (April 9, 2021) | In an earlier piece (FAIR.org, 3/3/21), we explored some country case study examples of how the press helps to manufacture consent for regime change and other U.S. actions abroad among left-leaning audiences, […]
Journalist, Glenn Greenwald, discusses where the US State Department stands on Palestinian right to self-defense.
From the patterns that I have observed, it seems to me that more is going on here than mere capitulation to political fads. It looks like they are deliberately trying to push people out of the armed forces that are not likely to be ideologically loyal (e.g. southern […]
Russia Today Late last month, the US Fifth Fleet said in a statement that Iranian vessels had come within 68 yards (204 feet) of the USS Firebolt patrol boat and another American ship in the Persian Gulf, north of the Strait of Hormuz. According to the statement, the […]
In a one-on-one interview with The Heat, film director Oliver Stone talks about United States foreign policy and the history of U.S. intervention.
Executive VP of The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Trita Parsi, details the negotiations taking place in Vienna to save the 2015 nuclear deal.
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right As expected, the Establishment Biden administration has rounded up the usual suspects to fill its defense and foreign policy slots. That means the neo-liberals are back, once again dictating to the rest of the world how it should live. Just as the […]
This is interesting. Totalitarian humanism vs. Latin American left-nationalist populist. By Ben Norton, The Grayzone When socialist Rafael Correa became Ecuador’s president, CIA cutouts poured money into environmental and Indigenous groups, while the US embassy cultivated opportunistic leaders to undermine his constituency. These forces helped secure victory for […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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