During the past six weeks, President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. troops to attack and destroy four speed boats in the Caribbean Sea, 1,500 miles from the United States. The president revealed that the attacks were conducted without warning, were intended not to stop...
Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN
As U.S. President Donald Trump surely intended, his “20-point Gaza plan” succeeded in upstaging calls by many other world leaders at the UN General Assembly for concrete, coordinated UN-led measures to force Israel to end its criminal genocide in Gaza and the illegal...
Empire by Numbers: 392 U.S. Military Interventions Across Every Region of the World
Monica Duffy Toft and Sidita Kushi’s 2023 book Dying by the Sword is both a work of scholarship and an unflinching indictment. It demolishes the enduring myth of the United States as a hesitant warrior, reluctantly drawn into conflicts by others. Instead, using their...
Bringing a Howitzer to a Knife Fight: US Armada Off Venezuela
Donald Trump boasted striking small boats off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast to “blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water.” Claiming destruction of enough drugs to kill 25,000, he called the extrajudicial murders “an act of kindness.” Then he ominously...
War Criminals Don’t Face Trial – They Get Retirement Deals
Ten years from now, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and countless others who enabled or excused the destruction of Gaza will almost certainly be dead – perhaps passing away peacefully one night during a restful dream. What they leave behind, however, is a...
US Now Violating Long-Standing Informal Proxy War Rules
NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is attracting growing attention as it threatens to spiral out of control. There is ample reason for concern. What began as a limited military assistance program to Kyiv from the United States and its European allies...
What Happened to America First?
Reprinted from The Realist Review. A quarter of a century ago, a newly elected Republican president, who campaigned on a promise of a more humble, less arrogant foreign policy was putting together his Cabinet and national security team. By the time he was finished,...
Tony Blair and the Gaza Trap: Continued Colonial Control Disguised as ‘Transition’
Reprinted with permission from The Kucinich Report. Gaza is an occupied territory. Its borders, airspace, imports, exports, and even calories are controlled by Israel and its Western backers. Gaza does not need another flag flown above its ruins; it needs the right to...
How the Pakistan-Saudi Arabia Defense Agreement Changes the Region and the World
On September 17, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, visited Saudi Arabia. Something bigger than expected happened. “Building on the historic partnership extending for nearly eight decades,” Sharif and Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al...
Who Will Protect Us From the Protectors?
In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets of Portland, he quietly signed a Presidential National Security Memorandum that purports to federalize policing....