A new survey from the Chicago Council finds that most Americans oppose sending U.S. forces to defend Israel if it comes under attack. If Israel is attacked by Iran, 56% oppose U.S. intervention to defend them. If Israel is attacked by any of its immediate neighbors,...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. ~ Charles Dickens Yoshito Matsushige, a photographer for the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper in...
On COI #651, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from Israel and Ukraine. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
On COI #650, Kyle Anzalone breaks down Middle East tensions. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Great orators in history would not have been recognized as such if their words carried no value. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is neither a great orator, nor did his speech before a joint Congressional session on July 24 have actual worth. It was an...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I wrote my first article for TomDispatch in 2007, two years after I’d retired from the military. That article was highly critical of the U.S. military and its disastrous war in Iraq. I wrote that we, the...
In the face of moves in Congress to ramp up U.S. readiness to activate a draft, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) have reintroduced an alternative proposal to step back from the brink of mass military mobilization by repealing the...
Soon after the Gaza war began 10 months ago, a prominent newspaper columnist denounced Congresswoman Cori Bush under a headline declaring that “anti-Israel comments make her unfit for reelection.” The piece appeared in the newspaper with the second-largest readership...
On COI #648, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news from the Middle East. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
The Israeli government assassinated the leader of Hamas’ political wing while he was in Tehran to attend the inauguration of the newly-elected Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian: Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political wing, was killed in Iran, Hamas announced...
