Independence Day 2025
We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4th 1776? When the President of the United States bombs the lawful facilities of […]2025-07-04 | Uncategorized
Could NATO Burden-Sharing Be a Subtle Snare for the United States?
Both Donald Trump and his legions of critics in Europe are celebrating the outcome of the latest NATO summit. The centerpiece of NATO’s renewed image of solidarity was an agreement among all Alliance members (except Spain) to boost their annual defense outlays to at least 5 percent of their yearly gross domestic product (GDP). Although […]2025-07-04 | Uncategorized
The Military-Industrial Complex Is Riding High
Originally published at TomDispatch. The Senate is on the verge of passing the distinctly misnamed “big beautiful bill.” It is, in fact, one of the ugliest pieces of legislation to come out of Congress in living memory. The version that passed the House recently would cut $1.7 trillion, mostly in domestic spending, while providing the […]2025-07-02 | Uncategorized
A Big Beautiful Bill for the Military-Industrial Complex
The US Senate worked through the weekend on the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The goal was to pass it quickly to ensure the House will then pass it and send it to President Trump’s desk before the July 4th holiday. However, disagreements among Republican Senators over reductions in spending on programs including Medicaid and food stamps […]2025-07-01 | Uncategorized
US Bombing of Iran Harms Non-Proliferation
Iran didn’t violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the United States did. When the U.S. bombed Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities on June 23, they didn’t just violate the cardinal rule of international law by attacking a sovereign nation, without Security Council approval, that had neither attacked it nor threatened to attack it. They also violated […]2025-06-30 | Uncategorized
Will Trump Continue Seeking War? If So, Here’s Why.
In 1938, five years into Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” the US remained mired in the depths of a “Great Depression.” Real income still hadn’t regained its 1929 level. Unemployment stood at six times at level. The nation languished in economic failure with no end in sight, making even the far-from-free-market policies of his predecessor, […]2025-06-25 | Uncategorized
Hey, POTUS, America Don’t Need No Bunker Busters, Either
We have observed on multiple occasions that Donald J. Trump is an unhinged, egomaniacal Caesarist who knows no limits to power. Indeed, it would appear that he believes himself to be the CEO of the world, bombing Iran last weekend for the good of mankind despite the fact that it poses no military threat whatsoever […]2025-06-25 | Uncategorized
The Dangerous Consequences of the US Attack on Iran
On June 21, the United States committed an act of war, attacking a sovereign nation that had neither attacked nor threatened it without the approval of the Security Council. Iran’s nuclear facilities were severely damaged. But that is not all that was damaged. The aggression has potentially left international law in ruins. America’s consistent appeals […]2025-06-24 | Uncategorized
How the US and Israel Used Rafael Grossi To Hijack the IAEA and Start a War on Iran
Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), allowed the IAEA to be used by the United States and Israel – an undeclared nuclear weapons state in long-term violation of IAEA rules – to manufacture a pretext for war on Iran, despite his agency’s own conclusion that Iran had no nuclear weapons […]2025-06-24 | Uncategorized
Bombing Iran Is Part of the USA’s Compulsion for War War War
Twenty years ago, one day in June 2005, I talked with an Iranian man who was selling underwear at the Tehran Grand Bazaar. People all over the world want peace, he said, but governments won’t let them have it. I thought of that conversation on Saturday night after the U.S. government attacked nuclear sites in […]2025-06-23 | Uncategorized
Israel’s Attack on Iran: The Violent New World Being Born Is Going To Horrify You
Western politicians and media are tying themselves up in knots trying to spin the impossible: presenting Israel’s unmistakable war of aggression against Iran as some kind of “ efensive” move. This time there was no rationalising pretext, as there was for Israel to inflict a genocide in Gaza following Hamas’ one-day attack on 7 October 2023. […]2025-06-20 | Uncategorized
Family of Kenyan man shot at close range by police demands accountability
Boniface Kariuki was shot by a masked police officer at close range while a protest against police brutality was underway in Nairobi on Tuesday. According to his family, Kariuki, who was holding a packet of face masks when he was shot, was working as a street vendor and not threatening police.2025-06-19 |
Can Russia Help End the War in Iran?
No one has been able to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, but could Russia help end the war in Iran? Russia is one of the rare powers that has very close relationships with both Iran and Israel, and both Iran and Israel trust Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken to both Iranian President Masoud […]2025-06-19 | Uncategorized
Debate: No, America Should Not Export Freedom Abroad
The following is adapted from Antiwar.com editorial director Scott Horon’s statements in debate with Chinese exile Wang Dan on June 12 at Freedom Fest in Palm Springs, California “In order to preserve freedom at home, America must make an effort to export it abroad.” Ha. You’ve got to be kidding me. In the last 25 […]2025-06-18 | Uncategorized
Democracy in Georgia Is Under Threat by the US Congress and the Helsinki Commission
Tbilisi – It was Lincoln who once said “I would like to see someone proud of the place in which they live.” The 16th president never made it to the South Caucasus, but here reside a people quite justly proud of the place in which they live. Among the most striking differences between the vision … Continue reading "Democracy in2025-06-12 | Uncategorized
Gaza’s ‘Humanitarian’ Façade: A Deceptive Ploy Unraveled
Just one day before the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operating officially inside the Gaza Strip, its executive director, Jake Wood, resigned. The text of his resignation statement underscored what many had already suspected: GHF is not a humanitarian endeavor, but the latest scam by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to control the Gaza … Continue reading "Gaza’s ‘Humanitarian’2025-06-10 | Uncategorized
Don’t Fund the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: It’s a Genocidal Smokescreen
Recent reports say that US AID is considering giving $500 million to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) – an “aid” initiative launched at Israel’s request. At first glance, that might sound like a generous effort to help desperate Palestinians in Gaza. But peel back even one layer, and you’ll find a deadly political scheme masquerading … Continue reading "Don’t Fund2025-06-09 | Uncategorized
Is There a Crack in Western Support for Genocide?
After twenty months of horror in Gaza, political rhetoric in Western countries is finally starting to shift – but will words translate into action? And what exactly can other countries do when the United States still shields Israel from efforts to enforce international law, as it did at the UN Security Council on June 5th? … Continue reading "Is There2025-06-06 | Uncategorized
Israel Is Fully Integrating Its Gaza ‘Food Aid Hubs’ Into the Genocide
It is entirely unsurprising that Israel has yet again been caught out in a lie – a lie that the BBC once again spread far and wide on its news services. Israel claimed that it had not fired at starving Palestinians queueing on Sunday morning to get food from one of its highly militarised “aid … Continue reading "Israel Is2025-06-04 | Uncategorized
Japan's ALPS Treated Water Release Continues to Comply with International Safety Standards, IAEA Task Force Mission Confirms
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today that Japan continues to comply with international safety standards in its discharge of ALPS treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS), following the latest review mission by the Task Force set up to assess the safety of the process.2025-05-30 | Press Release
Celebrate Our Namesake’s Birthday: The Brilliance of Randolph Bourne
Today is the 139th anniversary of Randolph Bourne’s birthday. Antiwar.com named its parent institute for this early 20th century antiwar activist. Read Jeff Riggenbach’s biography of Bourne. [Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Randolph Bourne (1886–191 ”] Randolph Bourne was an American intellectual journalist who flourished for a few years in the second decade of … Continue reading "Celebrate2025-05-30 | Uncategorized
Punishing Freedom: Trump’s Attack on the First Amendment
All attempts by the government to evaluate the content of speech and deter or punish what the government and its benefactors hate or fear is un-American, unconstitutional and unlawful; and if not stopped, will reduce the American people to serfdom. During the past three months, the Trump administration has sought to withhold the delivery of … Continue reading "Punishing Freedom:2025-05-29 | Uncategorized
Netanyahu’s Endgame: Isolation and the Shattered Illusion of Power
There was a time when Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to have all the cards. The Palestinian Authority was largely passive, the occupied West Bank was relatively calm, Israel’s diplomatic reach was expanding, and the United States seemed ready to bend international law to accommodate Israel’s desire for complete control over Palestine. The Israeli prime minister had … Continue reading "Netanyahu’s Endgame:2025-05-23 | Uncategorized
Why the Wall of Silence on the Gaza Genocide Is Finally Starting To Crack
Who could have imagined 19 months ago that it would take more than a year and a half of Israel slaughtering and starving Gaza’s children for the first cracks to appear in what has been a rock-solid wall of support for Israel from western establishments. Finally, something looks like it may be about to give. … Continue reading "Why the2025-05-22 | Uncategorized
Jeremy Bowen’s interview with Gaza aid chief was shameful – and he knows it
There was yet more shameful reporting by BBC News at Ten last night, with international editor Jeremy Bowen the chief culprit this time. He prefaced an interview with Philippe Lazzarini, head of United Nations refugee agency UNRWA, with an utterly unwarranted disclaimer – as though he was talking to a terrorist, not a leading human … Continue reading "Jeremy Bowen’s2025-05-20 | Uncategorized
Surprising Developments in the Iran Nuclear Negotiations
In the past several days, there have been surprising developments in the negotiations between Washington and Tehran over Iran’s civilian nuclear program. U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently, but not always, defined the goal of the negotiations as being limited to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. He repeated that definition as recently as … Continue reading "Surprising Developments2025-05-19 | Uncategorized
Can Trump Slip the Grip of the Neocons?
During the 1988 campaign, George W. Bush came to the Courthouse in Maryville, TN to speak at a rally for his Dad. As we were leaving, I told my friend and later Chief of Staff, Bob Griffitts, “Bob, he is better than his Dad.” When he ran for President in 2000, then Governor Bush went … Continue reading "Can Trump2025-05-19 | Uncategorized
America’s Weaponization of Space Continues Whilst NASA Sees Budget Cuts
If flagship NASA missions like the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Mars Sample Return mission are being cancelled at the same time that defense spending amounts the majority of last year’s increase in global government space investment, that’s a clear signal how the elected officials in Washington view the Final Frontier. At a … Continue reading "America’s Weaponization2025-05-16 | Uncategorized
The Deep State’s Favorite Columnist Just Turned on Bibi
Thomas Friedman’s message to President Trump, published in The New York Times, cuts sharper than most of the foggy, ideologically neutered op-eds that clutter that paper. It is, quite simply, one of the most brutally honest assessments of America’s relationship with Israel in years – from Thomas Friedman, of all people: an institutionalist and a … Continue reading "The Deep2025-05-14 | Uncategorized
What Will Trump Find in the Middle East This Week?
President Trump’s return to the Middle East this week, the first since his first-term 2017 visit, will take place amidst great turmoil. It is a region that bears little resemblance to the Middle East of 2017 and it appears, at least from media reporting this past week, that the Trump Administration has some understanding of … Continue reading "What Will2025-05-13 | Uncategorized
New Appeals Briefs Filed in USS Liberty FOIA Lawsuit
On Monday, April 7, 2025, the opening brief in Kinnucan v. NSA et al. (no. 24-7642) was filed in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeal seeks to reverse a US District Court decision that a 57-year-old report in the possession of the National Security Agency (NSA) is a Congressional record not subject … Continue reading "New Appeals2025-05-12 | Uncategorized
US priorities shift: Israel no longer first
ALBAWABA — Columnist Uriel Daskal makes the harshly critical claim that U.S. President Donald Trump has made a major shift in American foreign policy by essentially ignoring Israel in favor of short-term economic interests and strategic agreements, including with the Houthis and possibly Iran, in an opinion piece published by the Hebrew daily Maariv...2025-05-10 | NEWS, Main Headlines, Conflict with Israel
We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords
“We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones bombed on May 2, 2025, almost certainly launched by Israel. Cassandra had traveled to Malta after spending six weeks in Masafer Yatta, the West Bank region where, for two … Continue reading "We Were2025-05-09 | Uncategorized
US Change in Tone May Not be to Ukraine’s Benefit
The Trump administration warned recently that, if progress is not made in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, they could walk away from the talks. On April 18, U.S. President Donald Trump said, “If for some reason one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we’re just going to say, ‘you’re foolish, you’re … Continue reading "US Change2025-05-09 | Uncategorized
Trump Interview Puts Iran Negotiations in Jeopardy
Donald Trump’s unexpected answer on Sunday to an interviewer’s question has thrown his administration’s nuclear negotiations with Iran into confusion. U.S. President Donald Trump has consistently said that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program are limited to preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon: “You know, it’s not a complicated formula. Iran cannot have … Continue reading "Trump Interview2025-05-07 | Uncategorized
The Myth of Conquest: Why Gaza Will Never Be Subdued by Israel
To conquer a place is to fundamentally subdue its population. This must be clearly differentiated from ‘occupation’, a specific legal term that governs the relationship between a foreign “occupying power” and the occupied nation under international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention. When Israeli forces were ultimately compelled to redeploy from the Gaza Strip in … Continue reading "The Myth2025-05-01 | Uncategorized
The Marketplace of Ideas Works Only If We Leave the Doors Open
In 1958, Soviet intellectuals Alexander Yakovlev and Oleg Kalugin arrived at Columbia University as Fulbright scholars for a year of graduate studies. They weren’t defectors. They were loyal Party apparatchiks, sent to study how America’s “propaganda machine” worked so they could better defend socialism back home. Instead, they encountered something far more dangerous to totalitarianism … Continue reading "The Marketplace2025-05-01 | Uncategorized
IAEA Kicks Off 2025 Cooperation with G20 under South African Presidency
For the second year in a row, the IAEA has been invited to collaborate with the G20 on work related to nuclear power. The cooperation resumed under the presidency of South Africa at meetings this week in Cape Town, kicking off with a side event on the role of nuclear energy in clean energy transitions.2025-04-30 | News Story
The Path to Peace: Europeanization Then Normalization
Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. Much has been made of Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky’s tête-à-tête in Saint Peter’s Basilica over the weekend. If nothing else, the optics were stunning: The US and Ukrainian president looked to be patching things up – perhaps the spirit of Pope Francis awakened the better angels of … Continue reading "The Path2025-04-30 | Uncategorized
Iran and the United States: Nuclear Argy Bargy
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” ~ Voltaire, Enlightenment author and philosopher (1694-177 Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the United States and Israel have been zealous in their efforts to disempower it. Israel has used its powerful hasbara (propaganda) machine to peddle absurdities about Tehran as a nuclear threat … Continue reading "Iran2025-04-30 | Uncategorized
50 Years On: US Elites Learned Nothing From the Vietnam Defeat
April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the final, definitive defeat of the U.S. military crusade in Vietnam. The images of U.S. helicopters desperately flying American diplomats and Washington’s high-level South Vietnamese collaborators from the roof of the U.S. embassy in Saigon effectively captured not only the chaotic environment, but also the extent of … Continue reading "50 Years2025-04-29 | Uncategorized
French Contradictions: Macron’s Palestine Play – Too Little, Too Late?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vehement opposition to a Palestinian state aligns perfectly with a long-standing Zionist ideology that has consistently viewed the establishment of a Palestinian state as a direct threat to Israel’s very foundation as a settler colonial project. Thus, the mere existence of a Palestinian state with clearly defined geographical boundaries would … Continue reading "French Contradictions:2025-04-25 | Uncategorized
IAEA Director General Grossi Discusses Global Non-proliferation, Nuclear Safety Issues with Senior US Officials in Washington DC
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi met high-level officials from the U.S. administration to discuss important current issues related to non-proliferation and nuclear safety worldwide, during a visit to Washington DC where he also spoke to the heads of the World Bank and Asian Development Bank about the financing of nuclear energy projects.2025-04-24 | News Story
NATO Membership for Ukraine Was Always Russia’s Red Line
This week, the Kremlin said it was finally satisfied with Washington’s position on future NATO membership for Kiev. “We have heard from Washington at various levels that NATO membership for Ukraine has been ruled out,” Russian spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained. “And of course this is something that brings us satisfaction and coincides with our position … Continue reading "NATO Membership2025-04-23 | Uncategorized
Does Zelensky Want Peace or War?
Considerable attention has been paid to whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is serious about negotiating a peace or whether he is delaying to provide time to achieve all of Russia’s goals on the battlefield. The Kremlin, itself, has said that, though they take the Trump administration’s diplomatic efforts seriously, they cannot simply be accepted “as … Continue reading "Does Zelensky2025-04-22 | Uncategorized
New Poll: Americans Reject Deporting Foreigners for ‘Wrongthink’ on Middle East
An important new public opinion survey taken by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has revealed very little American support for the deportation of legal foreign guests in the United States for expressing support for Palestine in its current conflict with Israel. Responding to FIRE’s quarterly National Speech Index survey conducted by the … Continue reading "New Poll:2025-04-21 | Uncategorized
The Stones Still Cry Out: Holy Week’s Political Reckoning
Holy Week is no mere ritual rehearsal for Christians; it’s a political dynamite keg, detonating the myth of human order built on blood. Jesus’ trial, crucifixion, and resurrection expose the scaffolding of power – then and now – as a rickety structure held together by scapegoats and silenced victims. As we navigate our fractured polis … Continue reading "The Stones2025-04-18 | Uncategorized
The Cross and the Pieta: The Passion of Palestine
Reprinted with permission from The Kucinich Report. Michelangelo’s Pieta, the larger-than-life sculpture of the crucified Christ held tenderly in Mother Mary’s lap, has attracted visitors to Rome since it was installed in the old St. Peter’s Basilica more than 500 years ago. Contemplation of the Pieta gifts one with the powerful presence of sacrifice and … Continue reading "The Cross2025-04-18 | Uncategorized