NB: A very useful appraisal. The sentence “I believe that during the unipolar moment, we were deeply committed to spreading democracy”, is jarring however. American foreign policy has never been committed to democracy but to its strategic interests of global dominance. It would announce its grand intentions only in so far as the ideology (as… Read More The USA’s role in the Ukraine crisis (2022)
Costs of War Project at Brown University indicated that the “war on terror” persisted on several continents. “The war continues in over 80 countries,” said Catherine Lutz, the project’s co-director. The war’s cost to taxpayers, the project estimated, was already at least $8 trillion…. Supplementing the automatic $3.8 billion in annual U.S. military aid to Israel, special new… Read More Norman Solomon: How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy
I want to share my understanding of the events that have befallen Europe, and I’ll include not only the Ukraine crisis, but also Serbia 1999, the wars in the Middle East, including Iraq, Syria, the wars in Africa, including Sudan, Somalia, Libya. These are to a very significant extent the result of deeply misguided US… Read More The Geopolitics of Peace: Jeffrey Sachs in the European Parliament
This is what Israel is doing now, just to be clear. A Nakba. Gideon Levy Something is happening for the first time in Israeli history. One war has yet to fully die down, but Israel is already stoking the next one. We have been denied the luxury of a moment to breathe or a bit… Read More When the Third Intifada Breaks Out, Don’t Forget That Israel Instigated It
Yanis Varoufakis As the annual high-level Munich Security Conference gets underway, the Russia-Ukraine war is dominating the agenda, and we speak to two guests protesting the conference. Economist, progressive leader and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis says the European project started with a noble goal of promoting peace but finds itself today “cornered” between… Read More “Frenzy of Warmongering”: Critics of Munich Security Summit Warn of Musk, Rising Fascism in Europe
Gabbard has switched from championing the oppressed to championing the oppressors. It’s tough to say whether she ever truly believes anything she says or merely points her trajectory towards the greatest number of clicks and attention Originally published on November 24, 2021, this investigation delves into Tulsi Gabbard’s political metamorphosis—from self-proclaimed anti-war progressive to champion… Read More From Anti-War Progressive to Pro-Drone Militarist: Tulsi Gabbard’s Odd Political Trajectory (2021)
It’s hard to accept that a dispositive majority of Americans love Trump and revel in his bigotry. To say that would amount to saying that the ground out of which American democracy grows is poisoned…. on the matter of Palestine, America’s lower depths have lower depths, its appetite for atrocity in the Middle East is… Read More Monstrous originality
NB: This is a crime unfolding right in front of our eyes; barely spoken of or called out for what it is by the so-called civilised world. The impunity enjoyed by the USA and Israel, backed up by covert or overt military assistance of the Western powers is a token of their brazen colonial attitude… Read More The Demon of Ethnic Cleansing Has Been Let Out of the Bottle in Israel
From Jairus Banaji’s Facebook page A builder fantasizes about transforming Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East, with a string of luxury hotels for the consumption of the world’s super-rich. Netanyahu looks baffled and even pained by the thought, because this real estate fantasy transforms the Israeli state into a mercenary that has unwittingly… Read More Trump on Ketamine
Dilip Simeon NB: This is part of a paper that I wrote in October 2023. Trump’s new declaration that he intends to complete the process of ethnic cleansing is merely the latest and most brazen declaration of the murderous impulses of American imperialism. He and his cronies will meet the same fate of the Presidents… Read More Nation-states as national homes; and Sir Edwin Montagu’s views on Zionism (1917)
After the truth-shower 