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Never in its history of war, and military occupation has Israel been so incapable of developing a coherent plan for its future, and the future of its victims. Even a quick glance at headlines in international media reveals the depth of the Israeli dilemma. While Tel Aviv continues to carry out a genocidal war against … Continue reading “Israel’s True Objectives in Gaza, and Why It Will Fail”

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As the nations of the world meet in New York this week for the high-level week of the 79th session of the General Assembly, many important global issues will be debated and addressed. But the most important issue will be discussed, not in the General Assembly Hall, but on the sidelines. That is where Ukrainian … Continue reading “The Most Important Issue at the UN This Week”

Reprinted with permission from Consortium News. We are on the eve of the possible final act of the tragicomedy that is Ukraine. It could come at the end of the month during the general debate at the U.N. General Assembly when  the odd couple of the lame-duck and expired presidents of the U.S. and Ukraine … Continue reading “Two Men Who, if Allowed, Could Decide Humanity’s Fate”

It is always dangerous to human freedom and due process when politics interferes with criminal prosecutions. Yet, present-day America is replete with tawdry examples of this. The recent exposures of the political machinations of the Chief Justice of the United States in the presidential immunity case is just one sad example of the highest judge … Continue reading “Gitmo and Politics”

In April 2021, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree postponing parliamentary and presidential elections, which were scheduled to take place in May and July respectively. The then-85-year-old Palestinian leader justified his unwarranted decision as a result of a ‘dispute’ with Israel over the vote of Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian city of … Continue reading “Abbas ‘Postponed’ Democracy – So, Who Speaks on Behalf of the Palestinian People?”

The West is being increasingly confronted with the cold realization that Ukraine cannot win this war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has set as a threshold for victory, not only the recapture of territory up to his country’s prewar borders, but the reclamation of all of its territory to the 2014 border, including the Donbas and … Continue reading “Ukraine at the Crossroads”

Reprinted from World Beyond War Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki is in Washington D.C. for the fourth time to voice Okinawan concerns to the U.S. government. Last night, the Washington Office of the Okinawan Prefectural Government  hosted “Okinawa Night with Governor Denny Tamaki” at the City Club of Washington.  I was asked to attend on behalf … Continue reading “Okinawan Governor Calls Out Crimes Committed by U.S. Military Personnel, New Henoko Base Construction, and PFAS”

Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. ― H. … Continue reading “The Russians Are Coming? The Russians Are Coming?”

On Friday, September 14, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House to discuss granting Ukraine permission to use U.S. and British long-range missiles to strike inside Russia, or, at least, to discuss the U.S. granting Britain permission to allow Ukraine to use British long-range missiles. The meeting passed … Continue reading “The War in Ukraine and the Search for the Goldilocks Formula”