Reprinted from Consortium News with the author’s permission. Although corporate news media have made it clear they don’t buy the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claim that al-Shifa Hospital has been a cover for a Hamas command and control center and weapons armory, Western media have failed to report a much bigger story. The IDF and … Continue reading "IDF Knew Real Hamas HQ While Lying About al-Shifa"
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts German writers on peace and war Georg Ebers: Each one must bring a victim to the war Georg Ebers: I tremble at the word, the mere word, war Georg Ebers: War is a perversion of nature ==== Georg EbersAn Egyptian PrincessTranslated by Eleanor Grove “Have a care what […]
US President Joe Biden’s November 18, 2023 op ed for The Washington Post opens with his rendition of Madeleine Albright’s no longer popular hit, “we are America; we are the indispensable nation.” “The United States,” Biden writes, “is the essential nation.” Biden’s tune is tone deaf to the rising voice of the nonaligned world and … Continue reading "Washington’s Message Is Like a Record with the Needle Stuck"
The ongoing discussions on the Israeli military objectives in Gaza are largely focused on whether Israel is planning a long or a short-term military reoccupation of the Strip. Israelis themselves are fueling this conversation, with 41 percent of Israelis wanting to leave Gaza following the war and another 44 percent wanting the Gaza Strip to … Continue reading "The Strip is Already Occupied: The Two Gazas That Israel Cannot Break"
From the Brian Wilson Writes Substack: The Two and Only celebrate Happy Bird Day! Brian and Jim return with a paean for the pain of Hunter Biden’s name! Plus the WaPo’s ‘Pity Party” and the latest on “Last Rights, The Death of American Rights.” Listen to the 24 minute podcast at this link – and […]
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In a city awash in foreign interests, dual citizens, and intersecting and at times conflicting loyalties, sometimes the most egregious examples are hiding in plain sight. While largely complicit in the ‘gentleman’s agreement’ that dictates, among many other things, that we never ever mention that the Long Island-raised editor of the once venerable Atlantic magazine … Continue reading "Tel Aviv’s Man in Washington"
U.S. officials view the war in Ukraine as a way of achieving geopolitical objectives in the Black Sea, an energy-rich region that connects Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. At two recent Senate hearings, State Department officials portrayed the war as a means of transforming the geopolitics of energy in the Black Sea. As long … Continue reading "The Ukraine War Has Been a ‘Great Bargain’ for US in the Black Sea"
Eleven more people, including Americans, were wounded.
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Oliver Goldsmith: Selections on war ==== Oliver GoldsmithThe Logicians RefutedIn Imitation of Dean Swift Brutes never meet in bloody fray,Nor cut each others’ throats, for pay.Of beasts, it is confess’d, the apeComes nearest us in human shape;Like man he imitates […]
On February 27, just the third day of their war, Russia and Ukraine announced direct negotiations in Belarus.
