All Is Hype for the Biden-Putin Summit
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Karl Marx's comment came to mind as President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought to equate their tête-à-tête at the G7 confab in Cornwall, England, to the Atlantic Charter...
Killing with Kindness: Somalia Sets a Precedent for US ‘Humanitarian’ Interventions
A development that set an extremely unfortunate foreign policy precedent took place during the waning weeks of George H.W. Bush’s administration when the United States commenced a "humanitarian" military intervention in Somalia. Although that effort...
New Israeli Government, Same Israeli Apartheid
After 12 years, Israel finally inaugurated a new prime minister. While being hailed by many as the opportunity for a fresh start, Naftali Bennett is at best a continuer of Netanyahu’s policies and at worst an ideologue whose positions are to the right of Netanyahu’s....
Joe Biden and Latin American Question Marks
The Trump years were not good years for Latin America. There were coups in Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela. There were some signs that things may change under the Biden administration. But recent moves have pointed those signs back in the old direction. Ecuador After...
Iraq Daily Roundup: 18 Killed; 123 Found In Mass Grave
Where Have You Gone Daniel Ellsberg? Nowhere. – 50 Years of Courage in an Era of Apathy
He hasn’t gone anywhere, actually. He’s been here all along – poking small holes of decency in sick system, for five-plus decades. At 90, Dan Ellsberg is with us still, and still calling bullshit on a government that couldn't act right if it tried, to a citizenry that...
Five Decades After the Pentagon Papers: Presidential Lies and Foolish Forecasts
Fifty years ago the Pentagon Papers exploded politically in a nation weary of the Vietnam War. Daniel Ellsberg worked on a Defense Department study about Washington’s involvement in Vietnam. He was so appalled with the findings that he leaked the document to the New...
Bombs in Paradise: Missiles and Munitions Headed to Ewa Beach, Hawaii
The United States Army plans to build an enormous weapons facility storing stockpiles of conventional warheads and explosives right next to the residential housing communities of Ewa Beach, Ewa Villages, West Loch Estates, and Ewa Gentry, as well as beside the Pearl...


