Thursday, November 21, 2024

The never ending cycle of nuclear insanity

Please repeat after me: No excuses. No compromise. No fear.

Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Earliest Earth overshoot day ever, it's been over a year since MSNBC mentioned the war in Yemen, Trump wants to strip security clearance of those who have criticized him, and more.

War and the imperial presidency

Congress offers a bipartisan blank check to Donald Trump.

The US war in Iraq: 15 years and counting … the dead and displaced

Fifteen years after the calamitous invasion of Iraq, those who precipitated the war still walk free.

Norvergence: Climate change fueled Syria’s civil war

“Until now the main cause of civil war is a wealth of the nation in few men hands but Syria showed us...

Trump’s recycling program

In many countries, covering up war crimes would itself merit prosecution; in Washington, it earns a promotion.

Netanyahu soldiers on

The only winner in the perennial confrontation between Israel and Hamas: Benjamin Netanyahu.

End the war in Ukraine

No diplomatic solution is possible without serious pressure on Putin.
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The Most Important Neglected Middle East Stories of 2015

The past 12 months saw enormous political, economic and military shifts in the Middle East, changing its geopolitics for the foreseeable future.