Congress accidentally protected the American people’s liberty this week when it failed to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign citizens. However, it has been “interpreted” by...
Adam Hochschild’s masterpiece King Leopold’s Ghost reconstructs one of the largest and least remembered mass atrocities of the modern era and exposes how Belgium’s liberal monarchy built a slave state in the Congo, which killed millions. First published in 1999 and...
[First published by Middle East Eye] The truth slowly comes to light: Israel‘s genocide in Gaza was planned decades ago. Listen to the testimonies of four Israeli soldiers who served in Gaza. Soldier 1: “Human lives didn’t matter. You could kill, there was no law. No...
Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. It’s important to understand that, contrary to Donald Trump’s quip to Barak Ravid that Netanyahu has “no f***ing judgment,” the Israeli Prime Minister knows exactly what he is doing: With a set of strikes at the...
When President Donald Trump appointed an obviously unqualified friend, a home builder executive, to be acting director of national intelligence, he inadvertently triggered attention to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The director of national...
Note from Tom: TomDispatch (at least as run by me) is now done, but if all goes well, Tom himself isn’t. And with that in mind, here’s what I hope will be but the first of a series of pieces that I’ll be writing on this ever-stranger world of ours at this new Substack...
Starting from the modern-day West Bank, Jesus rode his donkey westward around the Mount of Olives toward Jerusalem for what would be his Last Supper. As he passed through the ancient olive groves that blanketed the hillsides, he would have been surrounded by the rich...
On June 11, the US House voted down — on a bipartisan basis, with 19 Republicans joining most Democrats — the latest attempt to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Absent some kind of mid-June legislative miracle, Section 702 will expire on...
When the US-Iran conflict escalated earlier this year, the immediate concern centered on oil prices and the Strait of Hormuz. But the real danger was never confined to crude oil. The crisis has evolved into a broader energy, logistics, fertilizer, food and financial...
It all started with a call to my family in a displacement camp in northern Gaza. Since internet lines rarely stay connected, I managed to send a message to the widow of my cousin – who was killed along with all of his sons during the ongoing Gaza genocide. I asked her...
