What happened on Election Day in the U.S. is the denouement of a story that goes back nearly six decades.
Patrick Lawrence: Notes of a Non-Voter
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Chris Hedges: Extermination Works. At First.
In the long term, this indiscriminate violence waged by Netanyahu and those driving Middle East policy in the White House creates adversaries that, sometimes a generation later, outdo in savagery — we call it terrorism.
Hamas & ‘Human Shields’
Jonathan Cook takes apart the response by Jake Sullivan, U.S. national security adviser, to the savage Israel-U.S. military operation at the Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday that massacred more than 270 Palestinians.
Patrick Lawrence: The Impotence of Antony Blinken
With the U.S. unable to compete in the EV market and desperate in Ukraine, the secretary of state traveled to China to talk at Beijing for his domestic audience.
Biden Increases Spying on Americans
The White House backed surveillance reauthorization that, despite a fresh record of routine abuses, expands security agencies’ spying power, writes Kevin Gosztola.
VIPS MEMO: To Biden — Avoid a Third World War
No experience of the failure of policy can shake belief in its excellence, even though foreign adventures drained the treasury and led to imperial decline.
Chris Hedges: Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse
Joe Biden relies on advisors who believe in the West’s civilizing mission to the “lesser breeds” of the earth to formulate his policies towards Israel and the Middle East.
IDF Knew Real Hamas HQ While Lying About al-Shifa
While telling the world that Hamas HQ was under al-Shifa Hospital, the IDF had already found the actual command center 8.5km away, reports Gareth Porter.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Decency Becomes Indecent
At this point, Washington’s defense of Israel becomes as baldly obscene as the apartheid state’s long record of lawless aggression toward the Palestinian population.
SCOTT RITTER: Israel’s Massive Intelligence Failure
The origins of Israel’s intelligence failure on the Hamas attacks can be traced to the decision to rely on AI instead of the contrarian analysis born of the earlier intelligence failure of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.