Friday, January 10, 2025

Trump & Biden’s secret bombing wars

President Biden cannot restore the world’s respect for American leadership, or the American public’s support for our foreign policy, by piling more lies, secrets and atrocities on top of those he has inherited.

What mission accomplished? More questions than answers after Syria bombing

Hopefully, policy makers in the future will realize that drawing 'red lines' in terms of conflicts in other countries creates dangers of its own.

America is reaping what it sowed in Ukraine

Will the prospect of such a 21st Century Cuban Missile Crisis be enough to bring America’s irresponsible leaders to their senses and back to the negotiating table, to start unwinding the suicidal mess they have blundered into?

The dead end of liberal American Zionism

“I am now persuaded that Israel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”

Girding for confrontation

Right now, a Sino-American war sounds like the plotline of some half-baked dystopian novel. But could it become reality in the future?

Biden administration approves $8 billion arms sale to Israel amid allegations of genocide in...

Human rights groups condemn Biden’s approval of $8 billion arms deal with Israel amid Gaza conflict

September 11 and the debacle of ‘nation-building’ in Iraq and Afghanistan

Nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq was the resurrection of a doctrine that should have been buried after Vietnam.

Saudi women may soon be behind the wheel, but still not in the drivers’...

Though a hard-won victory for Saudi women, we should recognize that the biggest impediment for women has not been the inability to drive.

‘De-certifying’ the Iran deal may be Trump’s most reckless decision yet

Iran is complying with the nuclear deal. Trump, on the other hand, is risking a war – and torching U.S. credibility.

12 ways the US invasion of Iraq lives on in infamy

“Today, it is we Americans who live in infamy.”