Moldova’s September 28, 2025, parliamentary elections are shaping up to be another highly contentious struggle between pro-Russia and anti-Russia factions. Both the European Union and Moscow also are accusing each other of illicit election meddling to put their...
The jackals are back! In early September, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and the scion of another Big Apple real estate tycoon, began working with U.S. administration, eager to plan for post-genocide Gaza. After two years of destruction of Gaza and...
Reprinted from The Realist Review. Five years ago this September, the scholar Sherle R. Schwenninger, perhaps the most lucid thinker on U.S. foreign policy this country has ever produced, died alone in his apartment in Manhattan. To my embarrassment, I had only a...
Amid one of the most severe humanitarian crises of the century, the gap between the value-driven rhetoric of American foreign policy and the realities on the ground is becoming increasingly apparent. This chasm is deepened by reports of child malnutrition, images of...
Reporting has recently emerged that the United States is considering direct strikes on Venezuela that could increase volatility in the region and the risk of war. Under the pretext of disrupting the flow of drugs into the U.S. by Venezuelan drug cartels, the U.S. has...
The renaming of the Defense Department should have surprised no one. Donald Trump is an incipient fascist doing what such figures do. Surrounded by a coterie of illiberal ideologues and careerist sycophants, he and his top aides have dispensed with pretense and...
Notorious both in Israel and abroad, yet beloved as a visionary by his constituencies, Bezalel Smotrich is the far-right leader of Israel’s National Religious Party-Religious Zionism and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s current Minister of Finance. Ridiculed and...
For many Evangelical Christians in America, support for the state of Israel is a central religious dogma. Dispensationalism, the idea that the Old Testament should be taken literally, is often cited as the reasoning behind why Americans should support the modern state...
Scott Horton’s masterpiece “Enough Already” shows how the U.S. and its allies spread devastation through Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and Pakistan, propping up despots and arming extremists along the way. The final balance sheet: two million dead,...
Originally appeared at TomDispatch. My fellow Americans, my critical voice has finally been heard inside the Oval Office. No, not my voice against the $1.7 trillion this country is planning to spend on new nuclear weapons. No, not my call to cut the Pentagon budget in...
