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Another year of war and another NATO summit, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is still not going to get the NATO membership Ukrainians are fighting and dying for. At last year’s NATO summit, Zelensky was offered only “an invitation to Ukraine to join the Alliance when Allies agree and conditions are met.” “Ukraine isn’t ready … Continue reading “The NATO Summit Is on July 9, but Zelensky Is Already Angry”

Reprinted from Covert Action Magazine with the author’s permission. Politicians in the small Caucasian nation of Georgia have been sanctioned by Washington for “undermining democracy” and depriving Georgian people of “fundamental freedoms,” simply because its parliament has passed a law to control foreign influence over Georgian politics. Politicians in another small country, Nicaragua, were subjected … Continue reading “The US Sanctioned Georgia and Nicaragua for Laws That Copy the US”

Originally appeared at TomDispatch. Though I was never in the U.S. military, my life experience has been American wars, wars, wars, and more wars. I was born during World War II. I was in grade school when the Korean War took place. I still have a faint memory of a photo of a gleaming American … Continue reading “Another American War in the Middle East?”

As we approach Independence Day, patriotic displays will be everywhere. U.S. flags; red, white, and blue clothing; patriotic décor; and calls to appreciate our freedoms will greet us in the news, in stores and restaurants, and even in our workplaces. Some 67 percent of U.S. adults report being “proud” or “extremely proud” to be an … Continue reading “We Need Rational Patriotism”

Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft with the author’s permission. Two proposals that would radically alter the current system for registering Americans for a future draft were introduced recently in Congress without any hearings or debate. They raise practical issues about whether any draft today would even be possible. As part of this year’s National Defense Authorization … Continue reading “A War Draft Today Can’t Work. Let Us Count the Ways.”

One of the strangest and most incomprehensible coup attempts has just unfolded in Bolivia. Not only are the motives unclear, it is even unclear who ordered it: the general who led the coup against the president or the president. But the stage upon which it unfolded was partly set by a U.S.-supported coup that took … Continue reading “The Three-Hour Coup. What Just Happened in Bolivia?”

Humanitarian aid should never be politicized though, quite often, the very survival of nations is used as political bargaining chips. Sadly, Gaza remains a prime example. Even before the current war, the Gaza Strip suffered under a 17-year hermetic blockade, which has rendered the impoverished area virtually ‘unlivable’. That very term, ‘unlivable’ was used by … Continue reading “On Aid and War – How Israel Has Used Starvation To Subdue the Palestinians”

Those Americans who might hope that the growing public opposition to continuing U.S. aid to Ukraine might signal a wave of fresh thinking about foreign policy in the Republican party are likely to be disappointed. Most members of the establishment cling to the idea that the principal worry about Republican policy views is the growing … Continue reading “The Republican Establishment’s Sterile Foreign Policy Perspective”

After NATO’s catastrophic, illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Libya and Afghanistan, on July 9th NATO plans to invade Washington DC. The good news is that it only plans to occupy Washington for three days. The British will not burn down the U.S. Capitol as they did in 1814, and the Germans are still meekly pretending that … Continue reading “Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington”

Twelve more were wounded.