The Gaza Catastrophe: Is It a Genocide?

The Hamas-Israel War has devastated Gaza and displaced its people. It could result in expulsions in the West Bank over time. Is it a genocide? In late December, South Africa filed a genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) arguing that...

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The US Is Choosing Escalation and a Wider War

Spencer Ackerman is not impressed by defenses of the U.S./U.K. strikes in Yemen: The respectable set says that once the Houthis started attacking Red Sea shipping, a U.S. reprisal was inevitable. There's a lazy-person's truth here, for sure. Like the Royal Navy before...

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Bombing Another Country for Peace

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Last night, the U.S. bombed another country, Yemen, in the name of the “rules-based order.” Yemen has been striking shipping as a form of protest against the ongoing Israeli genocide-in-slow-motion in Gaza. It...

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