The war with Iran is Trump’s folly but Congress’s disgrace for not stopping it.
Category: Donald Trump
The ‘Anti-Terrorist State’ Has Captured Latin America
The global war on terror, born from the ashes of the twin towers, perpetuates itself by constantly seeking new targets, writes Manuel Tufró.
Hedges Report: The Cartoonist Dissidents
Derf Backderf’s new graphic novel illustrates the repression of socialists during the McCarthy era through the stories of political cartoonists. It resonates powerfully with current times.
Chris Hedges: Osama Bin Trump
When the U.S. became the terrorists it claimed it was seeking to defeat, the country defeated itself.
War in the Twilight
The question is not whether a president is strong enough to exercise power, but whether the president is restrained enough to obey the laws he has sworn to uphold, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.
Chris Hedges: The Next Election May Be Our Last
Donald Trump is determined to subvert the midterms. All that can save us, if he succeeds, is a national strike.
Hedges Report: ‘Biggest Strategic Blunder in US History’
With its military options exhausted and China, Russia and key regional powers refusing to isolate Tehran, Washington is flailing in a war it cannot win, says John Mearsheimer.
Hormuz: US & Israel Escalated the Known Risks
Washington has converted a military operation into a strategic endurance contest in which Iran possesses an exceptionally powerful economic weapon, writes Dan Steinbock.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Canada & Creeping US Isolation
Canada is not alone in believing that to resist the Trump regime’s aggressions, lawful or otherwise, on the field of battle or at the mahogany table, is what must be done.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Landlord Diplomacy
You read here and there that Kushner and Witkoff’s undertakings with Moscow and Tehran reflect a diplomatic “style.” On we go to the normalization of stupidity and hubris as merely a new form of statecraft.