A few days before the end of 2024, the independent magazine +972 reported that “Israeli army forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital compound in Beit Lahiya, culminating a nearly week-long siege of the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza.” While fire spread...
The Gaza Genocide: The Fall of Israel’s Immunity
A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the reason that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli army, managed to escape justice in Brazil. Vagdani was accused by a Palestinian advocacy legal group, the Hind Rajab Foundation, of carrying out well-documented...
Iraq Weekly Roundup: 12 Killed
Can Trump Fix Our Broken Foreign Policy?
By the time most of you read this column, we will have a new US President. Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated for his second term today at 11:30 AM, Eastern time, and many Americans are hopeful that the disastrous foreign policy of the past four years under Biden...
Federalism, New Hampshire, and the USS Liberty
In 1986, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was awarded the "Seal Medallion of the Central Intelligence Agency 'In recognition of his outstanding accomplishments as... a leader in establishing the oversight of intelligence…'" By 1995, on the first day of the first...
Trump One; Biden Nothing
Before the first day of Donald Trump’s term in office, he already had more diplomatic achievements than Joe Biden did on the last day of his. The entrance of the Trump team into the negotiations was the difference in Gaza. Biden opened his administration...
Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning, Denouncing the Merchants of Death
Over the past three years, a collective of volunteer researchers, lawyers, and commentators created The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, dedicated to holding accountable four weapon manufacturing corporations based in the U.S. Their tribunal amassed copious...
The Fatal Effort To Dismantle UNRWA
Early in the year, State Department officials briefed Joel Rayburn from the Trump transition team there could be a humanitarian "catastrophe" in Gaza when a new Israeli law barring contact with the UN refugee agency for Palestinians takes effect at the end of the...
Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break the Silence
April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, New York The sermon which I am preaching this morning in a sense is not the usual kind of sermon, but it is a sermon and an important subject, nevertheless, because the issue that I will be discussing today is one of the most...
Tulsi Gabbard: A Switch in Time?
When she was a member of the House of Representatives, Tulsi Gabbard was a fierce defender of personal privacy rights protected by the Fourth Amendment. She consistently opposed permitting federal agents to spy on Americans without search warrants, and she...


