Electoral politics is about power, leverage and quid pro quo, writes Wilmer J. Leon, III. What are Black supporters of Kamala Harris getting in exchange?
As war looms with Iran, in 2017, a group of U.S. intelligence veterans urged the U.S. stop false claims about Iran being the leading state sponsor of terrorism and a threat to the West.
As assiduously as Israel seeks war with Iran is precisely the extent to which it will seek to draw the U.S. into it. That is what made Congress’ insanely intemperate recent reception of Netanyahu so dangerous.
If you didn’t like the outcome of this odyssey through uncharted legal territory before Lloyd Austin reversed it, blame the C.I.A., Mitch McConnell and almost every other member of Congress who served in 2009 and 2015.
An interview with Atef Abu Saif, the Palestinian novelist who chronicled his experience surviving the most recent onslaught in Gaza. Born in the besieged territory, Saif has known war his whole life.
Phyllis Bennis says the killing of Haniyeh in Tehran was a deliberate provocation that matches Netanyahu’s longstanding goal of drawing the U.S. into a potential Israel-Iran war.
The U.S. must make clear that “military assistance to Israel will be leveraged to secure an end to the conflict,” said the president of the National Iranian American Council.