Fakster Holocaust memorial organization condemns Jeff Bezos for selling World War II-era children’s books “Auschwitz is our Sinai, the ovens our burning bush. Like the Jews receiving God’s commandments, the Jews of the camps experienced a sacred mystery, received a secret message, which we can only approach at a distance, with awe and trembling. I, … Continue reading
The specific use of the term “humanitarian” in Western discourse, when applied to an act of war, seems to have started with NATO’s 1999 war for Kosovo. It was right around then that the term “intervention” became commonly used in place of war. By Helena Cobban I am old enough to remember when a “humanitarian … Continue reading
The Taliban relentlessly pressure Afghan soldiers and police to turn and fight the Americans as invaders (and rightly so) As U.S. forces have shrunk their presence and interaction with regular Afghan soldiers, American airstrikes have reached record numbers, often pounding areas close to where the soldiers come from and sometimes killing civilians. In an age … Continue reading
January 28, 2015 The U.S. relationship with Israel has long been a challenge in the context of wider U.S. foreign policy. It has often touched on national security issues, for instance when the government of Israel and its U.S. supporters (most notably the American Israel Public Affairs Committee [AIPAC]) opposed arms sales to Arab nations. … Continue reading
8 Republican Senators vote against Trump February 13, 2020 In a vote of 55-45, the Senate passed the Iran War Powers Resolution on Thursday afternoon, setting out opposition to any unauthorized war with Iran, and instructing the president not to deploy troops for such a war. Voting was heavily along party lines, with Democrats and … Continue reading
Is ‘Israel first’ a hot potato in 2020? haaretz ‘Never Bernie’ AIPAC now sounds a lot like a pro-Trump caucus, not a bipartisan pro-Israel lobby. But it has no choice This past week AIPAC found a way to alienate just about everyone in the American political world. After the group’s decision to run Facebook ads … Continue reading
The Massacre of Deir Yassin is only a single incident out of so many it’s too much to cover. The Lehi and the Irgun dissolved into the newly established Israel Defense Forces, a citizen’s army, which became Israel’s military backbone. Israel has never gotten worse, it’s never changed. The history and the massacre that took … Continue reading
It has already become a common practice for the Israeli air force to use civil aircraft to shield their own fighter jets from the Syrian air defense systems. #SYRIA | #Israeli airstrikes on #Damascus suburbs put at risk civilian flight with 172 passengers on board, which was diverted to #Russia’s #Khmeimim airbase to avoid getting … Continue reading
“As the neoliberal order is visibly collapsing, it is giving rise to ‘morbid symptoms’ Since early Tuesday morning, when it became clear that the Iowa Democratic Party would not immediately release its 2020 caucus results, a range of conspiracy theories have bloomed on social media about the Democratic National Committee and Shadow Inc., the tech … Continue reading
xcerpt from Torture Is the Central Issue in the Guantanamo TrialsJanuary 30, 2020 The CIA is hiding the names of those who ordered and carried out the torture of Guantanamo detainees. Even after years of legal battles, the United States is likely still using black sites and torture. These were two psychologists who had worked … Continue reading
I read this 2016 article and was reminded that the Haiti earthquake was a free for all for opportunists and predators of all sorts “The Clinton family, they are crooks, they are thieves, they are liars,” says Haitian activist Dahoud Andre. He has been leading protests outside the Clinton Foundation headquarters in Manhattan and Hillary … Continue reading
Netanyahu had hoped to immediately “finish the job” before Israel’s March vote. He also didn’t get his war with Iran via the US HAHA! US President Donald Trump’s newly unveiled Middle East “peace plan” sparked exceedingly divergent reactions around the world, but also within Israel itself — despite the fact that most see the state of Israel … Continue reading
