In recent weeks, North Korea has provided graphic demonstrations of its growing ballistic missile capabilities. During January, Pyongyang set a new record by conducting 7 tests in a single month. Kim Jong-Un’s government capped off that flurry by marking the lunar New...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Ten Killed
A Foreign Policy of Cheap Grace: Allies Prepare To Fight Russia to the Last Ukrainian
The US again is predicting an imminent Russian attack on Ukraine and urging Americans to leave. Whether reflecting a serious intelligence finding or attempt to unsettle Moscow’s plans, the Biden administration is treating the Ukrainian people more as a means than an...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Two Killed
‘Thank You for Hearing Our Afghan Pain’
During visits to Kabul, Afghanistan, over the past decade, I particularly relished lingering over breakfasts on chilly winter mornings with my young hosts who were on their winter break from school. Seated on the floor, wearing coats and hats and draped with blankets,...
From Tantura to Naqab: Israel’s Long Hidden Truths Are Finally Revealed
A succession of events in recent weeks all point to the inescapable fact that nearly 75 years of Israel’s painstaking efforts aimed at hiding the truth about its origins and its current racially-driven apartheid regime are failing miserably. The world is finally...
The Curious Case of the State of Israel – a Country Without Borders
This month’s publication of Amnesty International UK’s report on Israel and the occupied territories represents the latest declaration of Israel as an apartheid state by an established NGO. It can be read in the context of other such declarations made both in Israel...
Amnesty Apartheid Report: The Walls Protecting Israel Are Finally Crumbling
The walls protecting Israel are quickly crumbling. A year ago, it was Israel’s most celebrated human rights group, B’Tselem. Months later, it was the New York-based Human Rights Watch, whose senior staff have often enjoyed a revolving door with the US State...
Iraq Daily Roundup: 11 Killed
The Case Against Another Foolish War of Choice
A favorite expression of the faux down-home Republican senate leader from Kentucky is, "There is nothing to be learned from a second kick by a mule." I am in the same age group as Senator McConnell and most other senior political leaders (George W. Bush,...


