CN Editor Joe Lauria assesses the increasingly bizarre foreign policy of the Trump administration with journalist Rachel Blevins.
WATCH: A Foreign Policy of the Absurd
Category: Middle East
Arab Complicity in Israel’s Genocide
Arab failure in Palestine goes beyond disunity or incompetence, writes Ramzy Baroud. It reflects a much more cynical reality.
Alleged War Crime Applauded in Leaked Signal Chat
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Vice President J.D. Vance celebrated news that a residential building in Yemen collapsed following a U.S. strike.
The ‘Disappearing’ War Chat
Had the war plans been discussed on a secure government channel a record would have been kept, but Signal offered a way to make it disappear unless someone from outside took screenshots, writes Joe Lauria.
Chris Hedges: The Last Chapter of the Genocide
As Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza accelerates, its lies fall away and the West’s so-called humanitarian values are revealed as meaningless.
The Chris Hedges Report: America’s Constitutional Crisis
“An abusive exercise of power accompanied by humiliation” —Katherine Franke, former law professor at Columbia, on the university’s handling of Mahmoud Khalil, for whom she served as disciplinary adviser.
Israel’s Most Explicit Statement of Genocidal Intent
The Israeli defense minister is simply following Trump’s position and reiterating what everyone who isn’t a blinkered partisan hack knew Trump was saying two weeks ago, says Caitlin Johnstone.
The Lost ‘Arab’
Ramzy Baroud on the isolation of Palestine, from physical sieges and military occupation into the realm of language.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Trump’s Vision for Gaza
The U.S. president’s ethnic-cleansing plan is the latest installment in the Zionist project, for over a century, to eradicate Palestinians’ national aspirations.
Trump Vows to Press King of Jordan on Gaza Cleansing
The U.S. president said he would consider using aid to Jordan and Egypt as leverage to make them take part in the war crime of ethnically cleansing Gaza, reports Joe Lauria.