More Militarism Puts America on the Road to Ruin

Walter Russell Mead ends his latest column with some random assertions, mindless talking points, and a call for violence: Crows cluster where scarecrows fail. If Team Biden wants a world with fewer challenges to the American order, it must restore respect for American...

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Their Time Will Come

I gave a Saint Patrick’s Day speech at a rally for Palestine yesterday. Last year, I spent Saint Patrick’s Day standing in a bar with a fellow Marine veteran. In 2010, he had been a mortar man with Third Battalion, Fifth Marines, in Sangin, Helmand Province,...

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When Starvation Is a Weapon, The Harvest Is Shame

In a work entitled “Irish Famine 4,” Palestinian-American journalist and artist Sam Husseini combined grass and paint to commemorate a bitter time in Irish history when starving people died with their mouths stained green because, according to historian Christine...

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Gaza’s Famine and the Pathetic US Response

Antony Blinken was asked yesterday at a State Department press briefing if he agreed with the EU’s Josep Borrell that Israel was using starvation as a weapon in Gaza, and he gave this answer: What we’ve seen in terms of food as well as other supplies, going to your –...

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Red Line, What Red Line?

The Biden administration wants you to know that you shouldn’t take any of the president’s warnings to Israel seriously: The White House denied on Tuesday that President Biden had set any “red lines” for Israel in its campaign against Hamas in Gaza but warned again...

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