Reprinted from Consortium News. As U.S. House members grapple with whether to give $60 billion more to Ukraine, they must also grapple with the checkered nature of the intelligence they’ve been fed. On July 13, 2023, President Joe Biden announced Russian President...
The Tragic Reality of Rachel Corrie’s Death
Twenty years ago on March 16, the world got a tragic glimpse into what the state of Israel was going to become. Given the green light in the Oval Office by President George W. Bush, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon – "a man of peace," Bush said at the time –...
The Tragedy of Venezuela Is the Tragedy of the United States of America
Knowing what I know about my own Administration's attempt to unseat Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2002, I was not surprised when the effort was recently renewed by the Trump Administration, particularly when such arch-defenders of Latin American rights as...
The Elephant vs. the Shark
To pivot, according to the venerable Oxford English Dictionary, means to turn as on a pivot. Which takes us to the noun, which seems more appropriate for describing the Obama administrations Pacific policy: That on which anything turns; a...