Eyewitness Exposes the Execution of a Palestinian By an Israeli Soldier
As illegal Jewish settlers increase their attacks on Palestinian civilians in the occupied city of Al Khalil (Hebron), the people of the Palestinian city continue to mount a campaign of popular resistance. One of the channels of resistance is Human Rights Defenders,...
The US Occupation of Haiti
While remembering their past has not prevented history from repeating itself, it is not possible for the descendants of the world’s first successful large-scale slave revolt to forget the trauma inflicted by their northern neighbors. One hundred and five years ago...
Trump’s Desperate, Last-Ditch Effort To Hike Tensions With Iran
During the past month, Iran has suffered a half-dozen explosions and fires at military and civilian sites. A bomb blew up near the Parchin missile base outside Tehran, Iran’s capital. Fires broke out at an electric power station and aboard seven ships in a southern...
The Russians Are(n’t) Coming!: Paul Reveres, the Washington Hawks Are Not
In America’s Emerald City these days, if there’s even a hint of a war-wind-down, imperial-deescalation, or military budget-cuts, Washington’s (non-dribbling) Wizards have a ready response: Russia! Indeed, these military's magicians have a far-simpler and more...
List of Israeli Targets Leaked: Tel Aviv Fears the Worst in ICC Investigation of War Crimes
When International Court of Justice (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed last December that the Court has ample evidence to pursue a war crimes investigation in occupied Palestine, the Israeli government responded with the usual rhetoric, accusing the...
Presumptuous Pompeo Pushes Preposterous ‘Peking’ Policy
Quick. Somebody tell Mike Pompeo. The secretary of state is not supposed to play the role of court jester – the laughing stock to the world. There was no sign that any of those listening to his “major China policy statement” last Thursday at the Nixon Library...
Yemen: A Torrent of Suffering in a Time of Siege
"When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable, the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer." ~ Bertolt Brecht In...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Five Bodies Found in Mosul Rubble
Engagement With China Was a Success: Trade Helped Transform a Totalitarian State
As the Trump administration pushes the U.S. toward a new Cold War with China, it has become conventional wisdom that America’s opening to the People’s Republic of China "failed." Trading with the PRC and bringing it into the World Trade Organization were...


