Editor’s Note: This is the third or fourth time I’ve reprinted this article on Memorial Day since I first wrote it in about 2009. I keep reprinting it because I still haven’t found a better way to express my revulsion for war and at the same time my admiration for warriors. The best way…
“Almost everything said in the U.S. about Israel’s assault on the Palestinians is a lie — because we are implicated By CHRIS HEDGES PUBLISHED MAY 15, 2021 4:00PM (UTC) “Nearly all the words and phrases used by the Democrats, Republicans and the talking heads on the media to describe the unrest inside Israel and the…
Could the U.S. and China Face an Unintended Blowup in the Western Pacific in the Biden Years? BY MICHAEL KLARE Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch.com The leaders of China and the United States certainly don’t seek a war with each another. Both the Biden administration and the regime of Chinese President Xi Jinping view economic…
Life in a Wounded and Wounding Land BY TOM ENGELHARDT Here’s one of the things I now do every morning. I go to the online Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center and check out the figures there — global coronavirus cases and deaths, U.S. coronavirus cases and deaths. And I do so the way that, not so long…
“By Juan Cole “Eric Schmitt, Maggie Haberman, David E. Sanger, Helene Cooper and Lara Jakes at the New York Times get the scoop. Their sources in the White House tell them that last Thursday, in a meeting with his senior advisers, Trump abruptly asked them if there were options for a US strike on Iran’s…