If the U.S. gets into the business of congressional ratification of presidentially initiated wars, it will continue the slow and inexorable normalization of presidential force, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. That’s not what the Constitution requires.
As the U.S. and Israel kill Middle East children, including 165 schoolgirls in Iran, a U.N. diplomat said the first lady running a meeting on children in conflict was a high point of hypocrisy in U.N. history.
One noncommissioned officer told the Military Religious Freedom Foundation that he was directed to tell his troops that Trump was “anointed by Jesus” and that war with Iran was “all part of God’s divine plan” to bring about Armageddon.
Journey to the center of the world of American leaders’ madness and ruin, writes Dennis Kucinich, to see desperate Iranian parents picking through rubble, searching for any signs of their little girls.
The film masterfully exposes the impulse towards power, death and destruction that the Israeli military embodies.
Earth’s Greatest Enemy gives antiwar and climate activists a film in which to find common ground against the Pentagon, writes Corinna Barnard.
Oil shipments to Cuba have virtually stopped, writes Marjorie Cohn. Lack of electricity has led to widespread blackouts, impacting hospitals and essential services. Cuba’s oil reserves could be totally depleted by March.
Trump’s ICE agents have resurrected the Ace of Spades death cards inserted into the mouths of dead Vietnamese by U.S. troops in Vietnam more than 50 years ago, writes Nick Turse.
In the hands of Israel’s genocidal settler-colonial society, the state of exception is a relentless nightmare that will not stop at the borders of Palestine, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Edith Romero reports on the unbridled power, tech fantasy and resource hoarding of ZEDEs — Zones for Employment and Economic Development — where the governments are run by AI and crypto is the main currency.