Scott Horton’s speech to the Tbilisi Summer Forum on June 6th No offense, but Georgia’s interests are just none of my affair. It’s such a long way from here. I know my government has been messing around there since the 1990s, picking winners and losers, making big promises and causing lots of trouble. Keeping Russia … Continue reading “A Message to Georgians: America Will Not Protect You”
The Gaza Crisis and the Repeal of Christianity’s Personhood Revolution
The relentless bombing of Gaza, with its gut-wrenching toll on civilian lives – children buried under rubble, families torn apart, entire neighborhoods reduced to ash – has become a grotesque spectacle on the global stage. The effort to bully Americans into co-signing this carnage, framed as a necessary strike against Hamas terrorists (whom Israel itself … Continue reading “The Gaza Crisis and the Repeal of Christianity’s Personhood Revolution”
Is There a Crack in Western Support for Genocide?
After twenty months of horror in Gaza, political rhetoric in Western countries is finally starting to shift – but will words translate into action? And what exactly can other countries do when the United States still shields Israel from efforts to enforce international law, as it did at the UN Security Council on June 5th? … Continue reading “Is There a Crack in Western Support for Genocide?”
Israel Is Fully Integrating Its Gaza ‘Food Aid Hubs’ Into the Genocide
It is entirely unsurprising that Israel has yet again been caught out in a lie – a lie that the BBC once again spread far and wide on its news services. Israel claimed that it had not fired at starving Palestinians queueing on Sunday morning to get food from one of its highly militarised “aid … Continue reading “Israel Is Fully Integrating Its Gaza ‘Food Aid Hubs’ Into the Genocide”
Why Iran Can’t Be ‘Allowed’ To Enrich Uranium
“The AUTOPEN,” US president Donald Trump wrote on his “Truth Social” platform on June 2 (referring to Joe Biden), “should have stopped Iran a long time ago from ‘enriching.’ Under our potential Agreement – WE WILL NOT ALLOW ANY ENRICHMENT OF URANIUM!” Trump’s absolutely right, but only in three ways that don’t reflect the pomposity … Continue reading “Why Iran Can’t Be ‘Allowed’ To Enrich Uranium”
Toward a Policy of Restrained Pessimism
Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. The discursive rhetoric President Trump deploys when speaking about Russia and its apex-leader, Mr. Putin, risks lending the impression that once the unfortunate business of the war wraps up, he and Mr. Putin will at last be free to guide US-Russian relations to unimaginable levels of peace, prosperity … Continue reading “Toward a Policy of Restrained Pessimism”
Could a Deal With Iran Really Be on the Horizon?
When U.S. President Donald Trump began his second term in office, he promised to be “a peacemaker and a unifier.” With wars and conflicts raging around the world, the one he seemed least likely to resolve was the dangerous standoff with Iran over its civilian nuclear program. Yet, four months later, with all the wars … Continue reading “Could a Deal With Iran Really Be on the Horizon?”
Riyadh and Khartoum Heading Toward a Deal That Will Anger Cairo
In the final days of Ramadan, and just days before Eid al-Fitr, Sudan’s de facto president and army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, knelt in prayer beside Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman at the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Al-Burhan had arrived in the kingdom only two days before the Sudanese civil war entered its … Continue reading “Riyadh and Khartoum Heading Toward a Deal That Will Anger Cairo”
A Short Guide on How To Starve a Population to Death
A short guide on how to engineer a genocide by starvation and ethnic cleansing: 1. Choose your moment. OK, you’ve been ethnically cleansing, occupying, oppressing and killing your neighbors for decades. The international courts have ruled your actions illegal. But none of that will matter the moment your neighbors retaliate by attacking you. Don’t worry. … Continue reading “A Short Guide on How To Starve a Population to Death”
The Vance Doctrine
The last vice president to serve during wartime was also the last president to have done so: George H.W. Bush (1924-2018). Bush’s presidency, unlike that of his son’s, was marked, mainly, by a prudential approach to foreign affairs. Bush’s warning about the dangers of unleashing the demons of “suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic hatred” in … Continue reading “The Vance Doctrine”