For more than 18 years, Karen Greenberg has been writing about the crimes the U.S. committed at its offshore prison of injustice at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It would be, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld assured Americans, “the least worst place” (a phrase Greenberg...
Americans Need to Acknowledge Washington’s Wartime Atrocities
Renewed attention on two historical episodes has revived debate about the wartime conduct of the United States. One was the release in theaters of the movie Oppenheimer, which highlights the role played by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in developing the first atomic...
‘Facebook Files’ Reveal Despicable Disregard for the Constitution
Last week’s revelation that Facebook took orders from the Biden Administration to censor even accurate information about Covid is the latest example of the US government’s disregard for our Constitution. Thanks to Rep. Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House...
Iraq Monthly Roundup: 39 Killed in July
America’s Cruel War Policy in Ukraine
In the early days, the war in Ukraine had not escalated into the dangerous NATO-Russia nightmare that it is today. The massive amounts of death and destruction was not yet imagined. Though "the news keeps repeating that Putin is targeting civilians,"...
Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Nuclear-Industrial Complex
Yes, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, would kill staggering numbers of people and be an eerily (if all too grimly) appropriate ending to the war that started with the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7,...
Iraq Weekly Roundup: Six Killed
PA President Mahmoud Abbas: A Puppet in the Hands of Israel and the US?
This is the perfect opportunity for Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, to exit the stage. But he will not. Abbas’ brief visit to the devastated Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank on July 12 demonstrated the absurdity and danger of the...
Has Liberty Died in Our Hearts?
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it." – Judge Learned Hand (1872-1961) Late last week, a judge on the Foreign...
Russia Decides Not To Renew Grain Deal: Some Context
Like the war that necessitated it, Russia’s decision not to renew the UN-Turkish brokered grain deal is bad for the world but not entirely unprovoked. The deal allowed Ukraine safe passage for its grain laden ships through the mined and blockaded Black Sea ports so it...


