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Originally appeared at TomDispatch. The next president of the United States, whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, will face many contentious domestic issues that have long divided this country, including abortion rights, immigration, racial discord, and economic inequality. In the foreign policy realm, she or he will face vexing decisions over Ukraine, Israel/Gaza, and China/Taiwan. … Continue reading “Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and the Armageddon Agenda”

In early September, the US Department of Justice announced criminal charges against two employees of RT (formerly Russia Today), alleging that the state media outlet “orchestrated a massive scheme to influence the American public by secretly planting and financing a content creation company on U.S. soil.” Separately, DOJ announced its theft (“seizure”) of 32 Internet … Continue reading “Would-Be Censors Peddle Yet Another Election Meddle”

The December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan was a watershed event, one that definitively ended “détente” between the global superpowers, the United States and the USSR, and inaugurated a new and more intense phase of tension. The invasion was a clearcut violation of international law and was widely condemned. At the time, it appeared that the … Continue reading “US Provoked the 1979 Russian Invasion of Afghanistan: Parallel to the Ukraine War?”

Two recent events in Europe have the potential to send shock waves well beyond the continent. The events are significant both in themselves and in how their double standards chisel away at the West’s heroic narrative and reveal the true cynical strategy. The first is France’s compromising of democracy in the appointment of a new … Continue reading “Double Standards Reveal the True Western Strategy”

In 1966, two famous Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and convicted on charges of disseminating propaganda against the Soviet state. The two were authors and humorists who published satire abroad that mocked Soviet leaders for failure to comply with the Soviet Constitution of 1936, which guaranteed the freedom of speech. … Continue reading “Free Speech and the Department of Political Justice”

For many years I lived just up the road from Megiddo prison in northern Israel, where new film of Israeli guards torturing Palestinians en masse has been published by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper. I drove past Megiddo prison on hundreds of occasions. Over time I came to barely notice the squat grey buildings, surrounded by watch … Continue reading “Israeli Torture Chambers Aren’t New. They Provoked October 7”

The first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump presented a bleak picture of the future of U.S. foreign policy no matter who wins in November. On the most urgent and important foreign policy issue of the year, the war and genocide in Gaza, Harris repeated empty platitudes about a “two-state solution” and Trump … Continue reading “Debate Debacle: Our Bleak Foreign Policy Future”

Reprinted from Jacobin with the author’s permission. The recent revocation of the Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) charitable status may be the most important Palestine solidarity victory in Canadian history. The grassroots win is a boost to the global Stop the JNF campaign and efforts to disrupt Canadian charity assistance to Israel. On August 10, the … Continue reading “Canada Is Ending Jewish National Fund’s Charitable Status”

Last week, 26-year-old Turkish-American activist Aysenur Eygi was brutally murdered by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).  She was killed as she protested, alongside several other activists with the International Solidarity Movement, against settlement expansion and settler terrorism against Palestinians in Beita; a village located in the illegally occupied Palestinian city of Nablus. Multiple eyewitness accounts … Continue reading “Washington’s Reaction to IDF Killing of Aysenur Eygi is Disgraceful and Hypocritical”