The attempt to reverse a democratic election in a classic quiet coup in America has now turned ugly and noisy. On the very same day as Joe Biden condemned the coup, he nominated Victoria Nuland as under secretary of state for political affairs: the same Victoria...
As Joe Biden Takes Over, Washington Is in Desperate Need of a Little Foreign Policy Humility
Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s newly appointed National Security Adviser, began issuing orders to Russia two days before his installation. Sullivan urged Moscow to release Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader arrested on his return to Russia on Sunday. Insisted...
Medical Apartheid in Palestine
Medical apartheid is moving at full speed in Palestine. Israel has refused an informal request from the World Health Organization (WHO) to immediately make COVID-19 vaccines available to Palestinian medical workers to avert a health disaster, citing shortages of jabs...
By ‘Force and Fraud’: Is This the End of the US Democracy Doctrine?
In an interview with the British newspaper, The Times, in 2015, former US Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, vehemently denied that exporting democracy to Iraq was the main motive behind the US invasion of that Arab country 12 years earlier. Rumsfeld further alleged...
ISIS-Africa Alarmism: Brought to You Context-Free by Defense Analysts
Long before he played various roles in the Obama administration, Robert Berschinski was described as among the "rarest of creatures." For starters, he was an R.O.T.C. cadet at an Ivy League school – Yale – on September 11, 2001, at a time when graduates of elite...
The Unwelcome Return of the Real Purveyors of Violence
With the mainstream media still obsessing about the January 6th “violent coup attempt” at the US Capitol Building, the incoming Biden Administration looks to be chock full of actual purveyors of violent coups. Don’t look to the mainstream media to...
Iraq Daily Roundup: 10 Killed
How CENTCOM Chief McKenzie Manufactured an Iran Crisis to Increase His Power
Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author's permission. During the final two months of the Trump administration, a series of provocative U.S. military moves in the Middle East stirred fears that a war against Iran was being hatched. The atmosphere of crisis was not...
Iraq Daily Roundup: 14 Killed; Mass Graves Yield Hundreds of Victims
Trump Administration Commits Another War Crime in Yemen
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spent his final days in office committing political terrorism, planting foreign policy landmines to hinder incoming President Joe Biden. One of his cruelest actions was to charge the Yemeni Houthis with being a terrorist organization. He...


