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Kamala Harris won the debate. People being bombed in Gaza did not. The banner headline across the top of the New York Times home page – “Harris Puts Trump on Defensive in Fierce Debate” – was accurate enough. But despite the good news for people understandably eager for Trump to be defeated, the Harris debate … Continue reading “Undebatable: What Harris and Trump Could Not Say About Israel and Gaza”

As military, economic and political events continue to spiral badly in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has undertaken the largest cabinet shuffle since the war began. Zelensky says that the cabinet shuffle is intended to reshape the government so that “Ukraine will achieve all the results we need” heading into a difficult period. Specifically, Zelensky says … Continue reading “As Ukraine Declines, Zelensky Shuffles His Cabinet”

If there is one eternal rule in Washington, it is that “politics makes for strange bedfellows.” If you were to presume twenty years ago, that former Vice President Dick Cheney would one day endorse a progressive Democrat from California for president, you would be sent to an insane asylum. The idea that a diehard neoconservative … Continue reading “Cheney Backs Harris: The War Hawk’s Blessing Reveals Continuity in Foreign Policy”

During World War II, American leaders proudly proclaimed this country the “arsenal of democracy,” supplying weapons and related materiel to allies like Great Britain and the Soviet Union. To cite just one example, I recall reading about Soviet armored units equipped with U.S. Sherman tanks, though the Soviets had an even better tank of their own … Continue reading “From the Arsenal of Democracy to an Arsenal of Genocide”

During her acceptance speech in August at the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris heaped praise on her mother.  She spoke proudly of a childhood full of promise, forged by a single mother who taught her to dream big. As Harris paid homage to her mother, I thought of how Israel has done everything … Continue reading “On the Frontline of Resistance: The Women of Palestine”

In recent weeks, there has been a surge of allegations that Moscow has long orchestrated an illegal campaign to influence U.S. public opinion. On September 4, 2024, the Justice Department charged two Russian media executives with an alleged scheme that authorities say illegally funneled millions of dollars to a Tennessee-based company [Tenet] to create and … Continue reading “Pro-War Lobby Attacks Russian Influencers”

One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching “Monday Night at the Movies” on NBC. The ad began with an adorable three-year-old girl counting petals as she pulled them from a daisy. Then came a man’s somber voiceover, counting down from ten to zero. Then … Continue reading “60 Years After Lyndon Johnson’s ‘Daisy Ad,’ the Silence on Nuclear War Is Dangerous”

Another 25 people were wounded.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir vowed, on August 26, to build a synagogue inside the Muslim holy site Al-Haram Al-Sharif. Ben-Gvir, as a representation of Israel’s powerful religious Zionist class in the government and society at large, has been candid regarding his designs in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of Palestine. He has … Continue reading “Zionism vs. Zionism – Ben-Gvir and the Acceleration of the Collapse of Israel”

The term ‘Orwellian’ is rapidly losing its gravitas with how often we make recourse to it in trying to explain global society’s piecemeal tumble into neofascism (same as the old fascism), but a recent batch of policy changes at the University of California, Los Angeles, rolling out this fall in retaliation for students and faculty’s … Continue reading “University of California Rolls Out New Free Speech Policies To Curtail Pro-Palestine Protests on Campus”