James Zogby calls El-Sayed’s victory in the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, a bellwether Midwestern battleground state, a watershed moment in U.S. politics.
A Groundbreaking US Political Defeat for Israel
Category: U.S. Congress
The Normalcy of US Wars
A government willing to kill millions and spend trillions on war while borrowing to pay interest on borrowed money will one day collapse of its own weight; as have all empires, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.
Inured to the Rising Gaza Death Toll
No one acts, writes Ramzy Baroud. Israel keeps bombing, U.S. Congress continues assigning it more weapons and the rising death tally provides a reminder of the magnitude of the horror.
Common Sense & the Pentagon Budget
For Americans, the courage required today is not to defeat an empire abroad, but to confront one at home — the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex, writes Dennis Laich.
US-Israel Rot Goes Deeper Than AIPAC
While Israel’s impunity for conducting unbridled violence is cracking in the U.S., politicians’ habit of tying career survival to Tel Aviv persists in traditional power structures, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Teaming Up for Genocide
While a record number of Democrats voted to block weaponry to genocidal Israel earlier this month, Hakeem Jeffries and J Street came together to keep it flowing, writes Norman Solomon.
US House Committee Targets Non-Profit Press Freedom
As part of a probe of leftwing nonprofits, a congressional committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News, the People’s Forum and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Ensuring Israel’s Genocides
As Israel loses popular support, the Israeli-intelligence sharing provision in the now-stalled Pentagon 2027 authorization bill ensures a seamless flow of support for an increasingly unpopular proxy, writes Nuvpreet Kalra.
US Rifles Pointed at a US Lawmaker in the West Bank
Tracing a rifle to a settler implicates the transfer itself, so no U.S. administration wants to run that trace, writes Imran Khalid. That is what the incident with Rho Khanna in the occupied West Bank reveals.
Barely Stopping Trump’s Assault on Birthright Citizenship
Alarmingly, only five members of the nine-person U.S. Supreme Court found the U.S. president’s executive order revoking birthright citizenship unconstitutional. This is a slender thread, writes Marjorie Cohn.