Twenty-one Israel-based civil society groups on Sunday joined Palestine defenders around the world in condemning the Israeli government's labeling of six Palestinian advocacy groups as terrorist organizations, calling the move "an act of cowardice." Israeli Defense...
Iraq Daily Roundup: 15 Killed
Biden’s Unforced Taiwan Error
The US is not obliged to defend Taiwan, and because of that China hawks have been agitating for at least the last year to make an explicit security guarantee to protect Taiwan against attack. Last week, President Biden made another unforced error when he affirmed that...
China and the Monroe Doctrine: What’s Good for the Goose Is Good for the Gander?
Nearly two centuries ago President James Monroe ordered the world’s powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere. The still young American republic, which lacked a serious navy or army, thereby compounded the hubris of its earlier claim to be creating a novus ordo...
Israel Calls the Fight for Palestinian Rights ‘Terror’ and So Turns Reality on Its Head
It certainly looked that way last Friday as Israel’s defense minister – who has been presented as a force for moderation in an Israeli government led by the settler right – declared six leading Palestinian human rights groups to be “terrorist...
Iraq Daily Roundup: 22 Killed
Antagonizing Russia: A Biden Administration Specialty
Joe Biden’s administration seems determined to surpass its predecessors in taking actions that are certain to antagonize Russia. In just the past two weeks, the United States and its NATO allies have gone out of their way to provoke Moscow on four separate occasions....
Julian Assange: A Threat to War Itself
The Pentagon's offer of "condolence money" to the relatives of the ten people (seven of them children) who were killed in the final U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan – originally declared righteous and necessary – bears a troubling connection to the...
Washington Should Learn Lessons From the Afghanistan Debacle
Only two months ago Washington’s 20-year Afghan experiment in nation-building collapsed both suddenly and ingloriously. The Biden administration would like to forget the entire disastrous experience. President Joe Biden is not to blame for the disaster, however. The...


