Op-Ed

It’s Time for the World to Impose Sanctions on Donald Trump

It’s time for Americans to get a taste of their own medicine. The world should blacklist Trump, his associates, and his businesses. (FPIF Opinion) — It’s embarrassing enough to have Donald Trump as president. But now American citizens have to endure the additional pain of the sanctions that other countries are imposing on the United States. Doesn’t […]

That Time John Bolton Threatened to Murder Children to Start the Iraq War

(CJ Opinion) — If you’ve been wondering why you’re seeing John Bolton’s carrion-soaked mustache on screen more than usual lately, it’s because things are escalating further with Iran. President Trump’s National Security Advisor has been on a whirlwind media tour helping the imperial propaganda machine manufacture support for the latest round of crushing sanctions that have now gone […]

People Who Smear WikiLeaks Are Fueling Trump’s War on the Media

(CJ Opinion) — You can’t throw a rock in establishment media circles these days without hitting a hand-wringing empire loyalist who is in the middle of an existential crisis about the US president hurting Jim Acosta’s feelings. They act like Trump saying mean words about mainstream media outlets worth billions of dollars is some kind of horrible, […]

Winning an Arms Race in Space: Trump Wants to Militarize Life Beyond Earth

(CN) — When Donald Trump declared it was time to Make America Great Again, he didn’t just mean here on Earth. As he directed the Pentagon in June to create a new branch of the armed services devoted just to space warfare, Trump declared, “It is not enough to have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in […]

Chomsky: “Israeli Intervention in US Elections Overwhelms Anything Russia Has Done”

(ZHE) — Well, this is going to make the weekend’s political conversations a little more awkward around America. As the mainstream media (and even the leftist politicians) begin to back quietly away from the “collusion” narrative, they remain increasingly focused on Russia’s “evil” efforts at “meddling” in the US election and “interfering with our democracy,” or some […]

Why Talking to Trump Is Such a Tricky Thing for Iran to Actually Do

(MEE Op-ed) — US President Donald Trump’s offer of dialogue with Iran without preconditions – which was quickly walked back by his secretary of state – has put the ball in Iran’s court once more. Many believe this is a golden opportunity for Tehran to stroke Trump’s ego and divert him from his path of confrontation by […]

They Work to Manufacture Consent Because They Need It. Don’t Give It to Them.

(CJ Opinion) — Plutocrat-owned news media outlets lie constantly. When I say this I don’t mean that everything they say is false; many of the events reported by mass media are for the most part factual. Whenever it’s convenient for the loose alliance of western plutocrats, the political establishment those plutocrats own and operate, and the secretive […]

Netanyahu Threatens to Deploy Israeli Military to Yemen

(MPN Op-ed) — On Wednesday, during a speech at a naval parade in Haifa, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to deploy the Israeli military to Yemen if the country’s resistance movement blocks the Bab al-Mandab Strait on Yemen’s western coast. The strait, the geostrategic position of which was arguably the reason for the Saudi Arabian-led coalition war against Yemen in the first […]

Why Calling Israel an Apartheid State or Racist Is Not Anti-Semitism

For Palestinians and their supporters, a definition of anti-Semitism cannot be disconnected from the history and nature of Israel’s founding and ongoing policies. (MEE Op-ed) — The frenzied debate over the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s definition of anti-Semitism – or more precisely, definition and illustrative examples – has centred on whether the document restricts criticism of […]

An Iran War Would Destroy the United States

(AHT Op-ed) — The establishment of a military force to go abroad and overthrow governments does not appear anywhere in the Constitution of the United States, nor does calling for destruction of countries that do not themselves threaten America appear anywhere in Article 2, which describes the responsibilities of the President. Indeed, both Presidents George Washington and […]