[Editor’s Note: Yesterday I printed some excerpts from Branco Marcetic’s domestic policy post-mortem on the Biden presidency, from Jacobin magazine. Today I offer a few excerpts — even more damning — from Marcetic’s assessment of Biden’s disastrous (and to me, frightening) foreign policy.] EXCERPTS: There is no ambiguity about President Joe Biden’s foreign policy…
[Editor’s Note: This is one of several articles from Jacobin magazine by Branko Marcetic, together comprising a fair and balanced post-mortem on the Biden administration, both domestic/economic and foreign policy accomplishments and failures. I subscribe to Jacobin because of its consistently intelligent socialist/working class perspective. In this article, Marcetic shows conclusively how liberal pundits…
Time to acknowledge that the president chose the circumstances that led to US complicity Trita Parsi Reprinted with permission of the author, from Responsible Statecraft (Jan 16, 2025) There is little doubt that President-elect Donald Trump’s posture vis-a-vis Israel is a key reason why a ceasefire in Gaza has finally been achieved. According to…
By Chris Hedges ScheerPost Israel, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants — in this case the release of the Israeli hostages in Gaza — but Israel habitually fails to implement subsequent phases that would lead…
Many mainstream news outlets, in reporting on this incident, are referring to Max Blumenthal and Sam Husseini as “activists” or “protesters,” when in fact they are both accredited journaists who have been properly vetted for attendance at White House news conferences. Here’s Democracy Now‘s report: “How Does It Feel to Have Your Legacy Be…
