Reprinted from Consortium News with the author’s permission. UPDATES: Biden defends Israel incursion into al-Shifa hospital against Hamas ‘headquarters’ – The Hill. “You have a circumstance where the first war crime is being committed by Hamas by having their headquarters, their military, hidden under a hospital. And that’s a fact, that’s what’s happened,” Biden said on … Continue reading "Israeli Deceit and the Battle of Shifa Hospital"
As Ukraine’s counteroffensive begins to unravel, it is not clear that the hundreds of thousands of deaths already suffered have purchased any of its goals. Ukraine is not in NATO, and it has not received any firm assurance that it will ever be. All that has happened is that the fifteen year old promise that … Continue reading "What’s Next for Ukraine: The Outlines of a Peaceful Settlement"
When the Trump administration obtained an indictment of Edward Snowden for violation of the Espionage Act of 1917, many of us who believe that the Fourth Amendment means what it says were deeply critical of the government, and we remain so today. Snowden is the former CIA and National Security Agency operative – he was … Continue reading "A Great Man in Moscow"
I started TomDispatch in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the launching of what President George W. Bush quickly labeled “the Global War on Terror.” And here we are, 22 years after Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld stood in the ruins of the Pentagon and told an aide, “Near term target needs – go … Continue reading "The Pentagon Proclaims Failure in its War on Terror in Africa"
YEREVAN – Over the past month, legacy and social media have been saturated with reports of the Netanyahu regime’s war on Gaza, which is being met with growing calls from the international community to invoke the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Less known, however, is the role the Israeli government has played … Continue reading "Israel’s Other War: Ethnic Cleansing in the South Caucasus"
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war ==== Ben JonsonEvery Man in His Humour CAPTAIN BOBADILL….I will tell you, sir, by the way of private, and under seal; I am a gentleman, and live here obscure, and to myself; but were I known to her majesty and […]
Volodymyr Zelensky was willing to end the war. On multiple occasions in the early days of the war, long before the escalation and long before the horrifying loss of life, limb and land, the Ukrainian president was willing to preserve his people’s land and protect his people lives in exchange for abandoning the dream of … Continue reading "The Zelensky Paradox"
In my public presentations on the subject of Palestine-Israel, I am frequently asked to identify the force most responsible for the catastrophe we are witnessing today in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem. Audiences are surprised when I say that the source is easily identifiable – it is Zionism. Zionism is the political ideology that … Continue reading "The Catastrophic Roots of Zionism in Palestine"
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REVISITING THE FAMOUS NOSTRADAMUS QUATRAIN In a previous post called WHAT DO WE DO?—DEEP STATE HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT & THE BROWN ROBE PROPHECIES, this author felt compelled to include various prophecies for the purpose of ‘war-gaming’ out possible future scenarios. The purpose of that exercise was two-fold: To allow the public time to prepare for … Continue reading →
