‘A Horrible Mistake’ – Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions
Originally posted at TomDispatch. The bad news stemming from the ill-planned and ill-managed U.S. evacuation of the Afghan capital just kept coming in. The Washington Post put it this way in blowing the whistle on the culminating disaster: “U.S. military admits...
Novichok Secret Paralyzes British Doctors Following German Doctor’s Disclosures
The leading hospital doctors on Novichok poisoning in Britain and Germany are not allowed by their governments to reveal publicly the medical information they have exchanged with each other. James Haslam, the chief doctor at Salisbury District Hospital treating Sergei...
Iraq Monthly Roundup: 149 Killed in September
Then and Now: Dissenters From American Foreign Policy on Russia in the 1980s and Today
In my intense, nearly daily exchange of emails with the late Professor Steve Cohen in 2015 before and during our incorporation of The American Committee for East-West Accord, Steve often expressed his deep regret that American political dialogue on policy towards...
If We Fight a New Cold War, Who Are We Fighting It With?
President Biden’s words were hollow. The content had been cored because the words were empty of any real world content. On September 21, 2021, he told the UN General Assembly that the US is "not seeking a new Cold War or a world divided into rigid blocks."...
The Untold Story of Why Palestinians Are Divided
The political division in Palestinian society is deep-rooted, and must not be reduced to convenient claims about the "Hamas-Fatah split", elections, the Oslo accords and subsequent disagreements. The division is linked to events that preceded all of these,...
Remembering the Crime of War
The effort to make war more humane has had the regrettable and foreseeable effect of making war more tolerable and therefore much easier to perpetuate. Along the way, the focus on how wars are fought has distracted us from the even more important questions of whether...
Europeans Whine That US Is Unreliable: Time for Them To Take Over Responsibility for Their Own Security
The Europeans are in a whiny mood. So what else is new, you ask? True, but the Biden presidency was supposed to be a halcyon time for Euro-enthusiasts. Senator and Vice President Joe Biden was the ultimate Atlanticist. Candidate Biden ran promising to restore...


