Non-Violent BDS Should Be Welcomed, Not Condemned
A thousand Israelis and their supporters gathered in Jerusalem’s International Convention Center on March 28 at a conference aimed at combating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). The conference was a display of “fear, paranoia, anger and...
Extrajudicial Executions Reported; 194 Killed in Iraq
A Doctor’s Note
I had a few doctor's appointments and so there's no column today, but never fear – I'll be back on Friday. So please stay tuned to this space. NOTES IN THE MARGIN You can check out my Twitter feed by going here. But please note that my tweets are sometimes...
US Aid to Israel Is ‘Too Much’ Say 61.9% of Americans
A majority Americans say US foreign aid to Israel is excessive – either “much too much” (32.5 percent) or “too much’ (29.4 percent). The single-question March 10, 2016 opinion survey, fielded through Google Consumer Surveys, reveals only slight changes since it was...
Writing a Blank Check on War for the President
Originally posted at TomDispatch. It was a large banner and its message was clear. It read: “Mission Accomplished,” and no, I don’t mean the classic “mission accomplished” banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln under which, on May 1, 2003,...
Six Year Anniversary of WikiLeaks Collateral Murder; A Celebration of Free Speech
On April 5, 2010, WikiLeaks published classified military footage of a July 2007 attack by a US Army helicopter gunship in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad. The video titled Collateral Murder depicted the killing of more than a dozen men, including two Reuters...
Military Progress Slows as 200 Killed in Iraq
Vietnam War at 50: Have We Learned Nothing?
Last week Defense Secretary Ashton Carter laid a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington in commemoration of the "50th anniversary" of that war. The date is confusing, as the war started earlier and ended far later than 1966. But the Vietnam...
More Western Military Meddling in Libya Is a Bad Idea
Unbelievably, after causing the chaos in Libya by overthrowing Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the United States is about to lead another Western military intervention designed to unify the country to fight ISIS's strongest cell outside Iraq and Syria, which...


