By Norman Solomon* – ZNetwork A few days before the end of 2024, the independent magazine +972 reported that “Israeli army forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital compound in Beit Lahiya, culminating a nearly week-long siege of the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza.”…
By Alexander Zaitchik* – Drop Site News The leading theorist of America First foreign policy has his work cut out for him On November 13, Elbridge Colby appeared on CNN to discuss and defend Donald Trump’s selection of Peter Hegseth to run the Pentagon. The role of explaining…
By Stuart Rees* – Pearls and Irritations In numerous journals and newspapers, death and destruction in Sudan is described as probably the greatest, certainly the most neglected, humanitarian catastrophe in existence. Save the Children identifies 15 million people, more than one…
By Ahmad Ibsais* – Mondoweiss The fires burning in Palestine and Los Angeles today are symptoms of the same disease: a system that values conquest over conservation, profit over people, and expansion over existence. For the last few days, I have stared at my phone watching…
By Medea Benjamin* and Nicolas J. Davies* – Common Dreams Neutrality resolves the root causes of the conflict for all the countries involved, and therefore provides a stable and sustainable solution.Ukrainian Neutrality Is Still the Key to Peace President-elect Trump said on…
Sachs* and Ehud Shapiro* – Common Dreams The sheer majority of people in the Middle East, and in the world, yearn for peace. Yet a violent extremist minority commits the region to endless war.
By Stewart Patrick* – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Reviving the interventionist Monroe Doctrine would be deeply counterproductive to U.S. foreign policy and the global order. At a press conference on Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump once again vowed to push…
By Mariamme Latif Estafan* – Modern Diplomacy The immediate entry of Israeli forces into Syria following their liberation from the Assad regime is unnecessary and counterproductive, exacerbating the country’s instability and undermining Syria’s path to sovereignty. The recent…
By Thomas Klikauer* – ZNetwork Regularly, Donald Trump is presented as a fascistic leader. Yet, he has no Italian-style Blackshirts roaming the streets and no Hitler-style SA or SS beating up opponents.
By Norman Solomon* – Common Dreams* While Biden refused to acknowledge the ethnic cleansing and mass murder that he kept making possible with bombs and political support for Netanyahu, Democrats in his orbit cooperated with silence or other types of evasion. When news broke over…
