The Israeli government was already deliberately starving the population of Gaza with their blockade, and now they have resumed intense bombing: Israel’s military launched a large-scale bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, breaking the fragile ceasefire...
Trump Escalates the Illegal War in Yemen
The Trump administration is continuing and escalating the illegal war in Yemen: The United States began to carry out large-scale military strikes on Saturday against dozens of targets in Yemen controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia, according to local news...
Trump’s Pro-War ‘Understanding’ With Netanyahu
Trump has reportedly reached an “understanding” with Netanyahu on Iran: Earlier this week, Netanyahu flew back from Washington on cloud 9. Whereas observers attributed his broad grin to the boost Trump gave him on crushing Hamas in Gaza and the release of Israeli...
Wanting To ‘Own’ Gaza Is Insane
The president isn’t giving up on his insane expansionism: President Trump again reiterated his proposal for the United States to take over Gaza, telling reporters on Air Force One on Sunday that the strip of land was “a big real estate site” that the United States was...
Trump’s Awful ‘Return to Maximum Pressure’ on Iran
Trump’s Iran policy in the second term is set to be just as awful as it was in the first. Reuters reports: U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign a presidential memorandum on Tuesday to restore his "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran to stop the country...
Americans Will Pay for Trump’s Pointless Trade War
Trump launched his pointless trade war over the weekend. Canada and Mexico are predictably retaliating against the unwarranted tariff hike, and China is preparing its own response: Mexico and Canada, the top two U.S. trading partners, immediately vowed retaliatory...
‘For the Protection of the Free World’
Trump is sounding more and more like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney: "I think the people want to be with us," Trump said when asked about the island in the press room on board the presidential plane. "I don't really know what claim Denmark has to it, but it would be a...
Trump’s Malevolent Yemen Policy
As expected, Trump has started the process for redesignating the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), and he is also going after USAID support for U.N. and humanitarian aid groups working in Yemen: It also directs the US Agency for International...
Cuba and the Ridiculous State Sponsors of Terrorism List
The Biden administration is getting something right on foreign policy at the very end: Less than a week before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden is lifting the state sponsor of terrorism designation for Cuba, nearly four years to the day from when President...
Attacking Iran Would Be Wrong and Illegal
Richard Nephew thinks that the case against attacking Iran isn’t as strong as it used to be: But today, the case against military action is not so neat. If anything, the case against attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities is stronger than it has ever been. It is because...