History is over. The world is flat. These were the sort of self-congratulatory and wildly grandiose platitudes that passed for wisdom in the first decade after the United States declared "victory" in the Cold War. Neither slim statement is true – at least...
Eisenhower’s Anti-Interventionist Course for Republicans
It should be an important lesson for everyone that possibly the most antiwar President we have ever had is the only one who spent almost his entire career in the military before becoming President. President Dwight David Eisenhower said in his most famous speech that...
Iraq Daily Roundup: One Killed; 32 Bodies Found in Mass Grave
Iraq Daily Roundup: 15 Killed; Chinese Workers Wounded in Attack
Afghan Troops Say Taliban Are Brothers and War Is ‘Not Really Our Fight.”
The world is waiting anxiously to see whether the U.S. and Afghan governments and the Taliban will agree to a one-week truce that could set the stage for a "permanent and comprehensive" ceasefire and a withdrawal of US and other foreign occupation forces from...
Anti-BDS Laws Violate Our Freedom
Americans’ free-speech and other rights are being violated by state laws aimed at stifling the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Movement against Israel’s illegal rule of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, both conquered over half a century ago....
Assange’s Extradition Case: Critical Moment for the Antiwar Movement
Last week, Leader of the UK opposition Jeremy Corbyn challenged Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the House of Commons on the US extradition request for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Corbyn stated that Assange had been charged by the US "for exposing war...
UN Publishes List of Companies Profiting From Israel’s Illegal Settlements in Palestine
Read the list here After years of unexplained delays, the United Nations this week released a list of over 100 companies with ties to illegal Israeli settler colonies in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. In a statement released on Wednesday, the UN Human Rights...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Three Killed in ISIS Attack
America and Israel Against the World
This article originally appeared at TruthDig. My Spotify workout playlist is a time warp. Growing up in a blue-collar neighborhood of New York City in the 1990s and early 2000s, listening to popular East Coast hip-hop was practically required. So on a recent morning...


