As he was sworn in for a second time, Donald Trump openly declared America to be a territorial empire that would expand, even to Mars, reports Joe Lauria.
On Monday President Donald Trump signed an executive order that ensures no federal government official facilitates conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen, reports Joe Lauria.
Arrayed around him in the Capitol’s rotunda for his inauguration were people with more blood on their hands than every serial killer in U.S. history, says John Wight.
Biden’s last-minute move allows the American Indian Movement activist, imprisoned for nearly half a century, to “spend his remaining days in home confinement.”
Trump will do many evil things but none will reverse the fact that Biden just spent four years advancing genocide, nuclear brinkmanship and authoritarianism.
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Estimates are that it will take 80 years to rebuild Gaza, writes Jonathan Cook. How is a “sovereign and viable Palestinian state,” or a “better future,” going to emerge out of ruins on that scale?
At a time when U.S. domestic crises demand urgent attention, Robert Inlakesh highlights unwavering governmental foreign aid for Israel and Ukraine.
As NATO fails in its attempt to expand into Ukraine, popular support has shifted significantly in favour of a path to peace.
Israel plays a cynical game. It makes phased agreements with the Palestinians that ensure it immediately gets what it wants. It then violates every subsequent phase and reignites its military assault.
What may be drawing to a close is merely a particularly intense phase in the genocide. The author saw Israel break the ceasefire in Lebanon every day, and expects the same in Gaza.
There’s little doubt Donald Trump’s intervention was the main reason for the Gaza ceasefire but predictably Joe Biden, who facilitated genocide until the bitter end, is saying it was him on his way out the door, says Joe Lauria.
Andrew P. Napolitano on Tulsi Gabbard’s abandonment of the people’s constitutional protection from spying under the Fourth Amendment.
Critics say it should not have taken the president four years to take Cuba off the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
Britain’s “public service broadcaster” has kept the public in the dark about U.K. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, writes Mark Curtis.
In a send-off interview with The New York Times, Biden’s secretary of state renders a sober-sounding account of the world as the retiring regime now leaves it that is so shockingly far from reality as to be frightening.
Speaking before the ceasefire was announced, Blinken effectively said Israel hadn’t made any advancements in its stated mission of defeating Hamas in more than 15 months of the Israeli military’s genocide in Gaza, writes Sharon Zhang.
By professing support for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after opposing it for years, Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence has just told America it’s the same old imperium after all.
The U.S. took advantage of a changing regional and domestic environment to make a favorable arrangement for itself this time. But the notion that it can drag Lebanon into the pro-Israeli orbit of the Gulf will prove illusory.
That General Joseph Aoun is the U.S. and Israel’s man is not in doubt. This is another defeat for Hezbollah following its disastrous ceasefire agreement, which led to the same-day start of the assault on their ally Assad.
