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.
Even as the gloomy realities of war and hunger threaten to dull the light of humanity, the red sparkling dance of our struggles illuminates the path forward.
Welcome to the age of the “Pyrocene” where cities burn and water does not come out of the hydrants.
Acclimatizing the U.S. to the Gaza genocide was most crucially abetted by Biden and his loyalists, who pretended he wasn’t doing what he was really doing, says Norman Solomon.
Considering the horrific history of sexual assault in the U.S. military, Ann Wright says her primary concern is the Trump nominee’s record of violence toward women. But there are other red flags as well.
During Trump 2.0, Medea Benjamin says the Palestine solidarity movement must find and expand the cracks in the pro-Israel war machine.
Andrew P. Napolitano on the George W. Bush-crafted Devil’s Island at Guantanamo Bay and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s pending courtroom plea, which will take place before Biden leaves office.
Gerry Condon recalls the years of determined resistance and organizing that led the late president to pardon draft resisters.
While indirectly backing the genocidal atrocities it now denounces in Sudan, the Biden administration pushes through an $8 billion weapons shipment to Israel as a blood-soaked punctuation mark on the U.S. president’s far-too-long political career.