A bill’s provision to integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries will go to a U.S. House vote after an effort to stop it failed Thursday. Passage will make it nearly impossible to end the U.S.-Israel special relationship, writes Alan MacLeod.
As Washington pushes Beirut to produce a disarmament plan, Hezbollah’s leader vows to keep “the weapons that protected our dignity,” Aseel Saleh reports.
Joe Biden quietly sought to ethnically cleanse Gaza; Bill Clinton and George W. Bush deported millions; Clinton tried to shrink the state and Steve Bannon warned in 2019 what Donald Trump would do, notes Wilmer J. Leon.
The United States confirms it has no regard for international law or a genuine rules-based order.
A hostile military alliance, now including even Sweden and Finland, is at the very borders of Russia. Chris Wright asks how Russian leaders are supposed to react to this as the NATO summit kicked off in Washington.
Medea Benjamin on the pro-Israel forces in Washington trying to derail Karim Khan’s request for Israeli and Hamas arrest warrants.
The war in Gaza serves as a smokescreen to the escalation of settler expansion and violence in the West Bank, writes Dan Steinbock. Meanwhile, Biden’s hawks refocus on Iran. Last of a 5-part series.
The first official imperial position — (A) “We hate this war and never wanted it” — is discredited by its second, simultaneous position — (B) “This war benefits us tremendously.”
Marjorie Cohn delves into the U.S. double standard in using an international court to prosecute war crimes.