The US increasingly prioritizes technological dominance, supply-chain security, industrial protection and strategic competition with China. Under Trump, this approach has become openly transactional and unilateral: tariffs, market access and security instruments are...
Support the Troops: Bring Them Home!
Last week we heard that US sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and other ships in the Middle East were being fed food that, from photos that surfaced in the media, looked worse than what you would feed a dog. Parents and spouses of service members...
Solidarity Is Not Enough: Why the World Must Force Accountability on Gaza Now
It is now official: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly rejected the core conditions of the Board of Peace framework, explicitly stating that Israel will neither adhere to a ceasefire nor withdraw its forces from Gaza. During a cabinet meeting on...
The Right To Be Left Alone
"The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness... They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone — most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men."...
The Two Terrorists: Britain Jails Tweets While the West Crowns al-Qaeda’s Man in Damascus
Two men, one word. Next Monday, at Kingston Crown Court in London, a 72-year-old grandfather goes on trial for terrorism; the evidence is a tweet of seven words, and the maximum sentence is 14 years. Nine months ago, a man who founded al-Qaeda's Syrian branch and...
Paper Tiger: The Failure of America’s Trillion-Dollar War Machine
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made...
When ‘Victory’ No Longer Justifies the Iran War
CNN reported this weekend that Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has privately urged senior Trump administration officials to look for an “off-ramp” from the war with Iran. According to three sources familiar with the discussions, Caine has warned...
The Secret Marriage: How Arab States Betrayed Palestine While Denouncing Gaza
Someone had to organize the catering; that's the detail that got me. From the start of Israel's assault on Gaza, Arab states have issued a steady stream of condemnation – labeling it genocide, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing – even as they've been secretly deepening...
The Bomb in Monaco and a Torture Room Near Kyiv
They took her trainers. That is the detail that survives, once the rest is stripped away – the belongings removed from the corpse, the shoes pulled from her feet, the shallow hole in woods sixty kilometers west of Kyiv. Anastasiia Berezovska had been shot in the back...
The New Apologists for American Empire
The Trump administration marked the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of U.S. independence with a series of statements in support of American empire. Despite the fact that Trump campaigned against endless war and the White House issued a National Security Strategy...


