Congressional progressives must reject Biden's regressive budget
There is nothing progressive about Biden’s $753 million military budget request.
Read MoreThe Caesar sanctions won't get rid of Assad, but they will hurt ordinary Syrians. The cruelty is the point.
The U.S. has repeatedly and ineptly failed the Syrian people. The Caesar sanctions convert the proxy war into an economic siege calibrated to punish Syrian civilians to coerce Iran. Rather than hastening the demise of Bashar Al-Assad, the sanctions will only bring about further hardship for ordinary Syrians.
Read More‘Deal of the Century’ dead on arrival - Part 2: How U.S. aid to Palestine deliberately perpetuates the occupation
Israel receives more aid every three years than Palestine has in seven decades. This aid disparity is not the only issue; in reality, much of U.S. support to Palestine is — in effect — support to Israel. Crucially, U.S. policies that favor Israel and deprive Palestinians of basic rights the means of self-determination reflect a bipartisan consensus that long predates Trump.
Read More‘Deal of the Century’ dead on arrival - Part 1: How U.S. military aid sabotaged the Israel-Palestine ‘peace process’
There is good reason to dwell on the deliberate cruelty of foreign policy in the era of Trump. This would be a mistake. It is precisely the temptation to see these events as a historical discontinuity that must be resisted, lest we fail to understand the fact that in terms of substance, Trump’s approach to Palestine differs little from that of his predecessors in the White House and in Congress.
Read MoreU.S. allies are strangling Sudan’s peaceful uprising. So is American indifference.
The military’s perverse obsession with preserving inter-military relationships at all costs has turned what the military construes as a source of leverage into a glaring liability. Leaning on these relations may be the only way to prevent U.S. allies from undermining Sudan’s uprising.
Read MoreThe U.S. is pushing for war with Iran. The media is failing to push back
The Trump administration is making the public case the for war with Iran. For the second time in a generation, the media is failing to make the case against it.
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