With the war on Iran stuck in low-intensity conflict, new focus is on the U.S.-Israel relationship. Everyone has a theory, but it’s perhaps more complex than it looks. This week we try to unravel it. Watch the replay.
It’s a war on the human conscience. Sentencing anti-genocide activists as terrorists. Working to deport mainstream foreign policy experts for criticizing a U.S. war. They’re actually punishing people for not acting like sociopaths.
The “end of history,” as Fukuyama should have foreseen, could lead to only one destination: enslavement. Only the colonial arrogance of the West could imagine that others would submit to such a fate.
Obstacles to the aggressors’ expansion and occupation in the Middle East are Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Shia militia in Iraq. They are presented as “threats” rather than defenders of their dignity, sovereignty and land.
No other military power is segmented into areas of responsibility spanning every continent on earth. This is because normal military forces defend their own territory, whereas the U.S. military is used to dominate the entire planet.
Alfred W. McCoy on the the causes and consequences at home and abroad of U.S. global decline.
Matt Kennard shows in his new book that the bipartisan War on Terror laid the groundwork for the Trump presidency and the rise of fascism — now, with extremists empowered, we face the consequences.
As U.S. leaders realize the limits of their imperial reach, the American people are realizing their power to insist on making peace, writes Nicolas J.S. Davies.
NATO’s Ukraine proxy war seeks to weaken Russia and topple Putin. To launch an economic, information and ground war, NATO needed Russia to invade. Now it needs Russia to attack a NATO nation to justify direct war. Watch the replay.
TRANSCRIPT ADDED: In an interview in Berlin, German journalist Patrik Babb explains the rise of the new German militarism and why Germany is so obedient to the U.S.