Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Today’s post has a simple goal: to praise TomDispatch, a regular, reliable, and highly effective “antidote to the mainstream media.” Its creator, editor, and chief author, Tom Engelhardt, founded the site soon...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. Iran has responded with drones and missiles to Israel’s previous attack on its consular building in Syria, which killed senior officers in the Iranian military. The Iranian response seems to have done little...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The Biden reelection campaign tells me to fear MAGA and Donald Trump. I fear the Biden administration and its moral bankruptcy. It’s been a grim 48 hours in the Middle East, as summarized here by Caitlin...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Courtesy of Stephen Semler, let’s take a look at the federal budget recently signed into law by President Biden: The biggest boost in spending from 2023 to 2024 went to the Pentagon. Of course! Even though the...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Early in 2003, Ashleigh Banfield was a star in the making. A rising journalist at MSNBC, she covered the opening stages of the Iraq War. Before that, she’d made a name for herself covering the 9/11 attacks and...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The U.S. government is complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Americans may think that “aid” to Israel is held up in Congress, more than $14 billion in death-dealing munitions and machinery of war, but in...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. If you’re like me, you subscribe to news services like the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and Reuters, which send daily news reports and quick highlights. Given the busy pace of life, most people...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I have a modest proposal: Stop all U.S. aid to Israel. Why does Israel need billions and billions in aid, mainly so they can buy U.S. weaponry? If they need it, they can pay for it. And if they’re going to use...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I was watching Congressman Ro Khanna question Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on 2/29 about Israel’s demolition of Gaza when Austin uttered a humdinger about trusting Israel to “utilize weapons that we...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Disgust is the word today that captures my feelings about the actions of “my” government. Disgust at facilitating and defending the Israeli genocide in Gaza, as casualties among Palestinians soar above...
