From The American Conservative:Bruce Riedel calls for the U.S. to pressure the Saudi coalition to end their blockade of Yemen:For the war to end, the Biden administration will need to lay out a political process that entices the Houthis to a ceasefire. A good place to...
Will Biden’s Syria Attack Help ISIS?
ISIS is back, we are told. Suddenly after a prolonged silence the ISIS threat is now being used to justify expanding the US presence in the Middle East. Last Thursday, however, President Biden ordered an airstrike on one of the Iraqi militias formed in 2014 to fight...
Biden’s Airstrike Still Reliant on Iraq AUMF
From The American Conservative:Thirty-five days after he was sworn into office as President of the United States, Joe Biden ordered airstrikes on Iranian-backed militias in Syria, in response to rocket attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq. Congress has not declared war...
USA Today Makes Major Contribution to Foreign Policy Debate
The USA Today, drawing on the work of the Cost of War Project, Quincy Institute, David Vine, William Hartung, and others, has gone beyond the limits of every other big corporate U.S. media outlet, and beyond what any member of the US Congress has done, in a big new...
Why Joe Biden Will Continue the US War on Nord Stream 2 Till the Bitter End
Any doubts as to whether Joe Biden will continue Donald Trump’s opposition to Nord Stream 2 should now be laid to rest. With 18 companies quitting the gas pipeline project this week following threats of US sanctions, there has never been so much pressure on Angela...
Imagining Palestine: On Barghouti, Darwish, Kanafani, and the Language of Exile
For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homes and their inability to return. It is not a casual topic pertaining to politics and international law, either. Nor is it an ethereal notion, a sentiment, a poetic verse. It is all...
Will Biden Fall for a Few Further Feckless Sanctions?
The Washington Post and other media, owned and operated by the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex), yesterday beat the drums for more sanctions on Russia. (See, for example, this and this.)Cuticles Beware!The...
GOP Rep. Biggs: Failure To Withdraw From Afghanistan a ‘Slippery Slope’
From The American Conservative:Arizona Republican Congressman Andy Biggs warned President Biden that any delay in keeping the timetable to withdraw in Afghanistan could lead to what he called a “slippery slope.”“I respectfully urge you to continue to...
A Global Demand to 35 Governments: Get Your Troops Out of Afghanistan / A Thank You to 6 That Already Have
The governments of Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway,...
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism Video Adaptation Chapter Twelve – Iraq War III
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism by Scott Horton, A Video Adaptation Commentary by the author. Directed by Gus Cantavero. Access the full video playlist here....


