Why ‘Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace’ Advocates Cling to Genocide Denial
Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza comes several months after both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports concluding without equivocation that Israel was engaged in genocide. But very few members of Congress dare to acknowledge that reality, while their silence and denials scream out complicity. In a New York Times interview last weekend, the … Continue reading "Why ‘Pro-Israel,2025-03-20 | Uncategorized
American Spring? Uphold Freedom of Speech on American Campuses
Reprinted with permission from The Kucinich Report. Throughout my political career, I have steadfastly defended the First Amendment, particularly the right to free speech. In 2002, I delivered a speech entitled A Prayer for America, where I challenged the rationale of the PATRIOT Act and questioned actions that infringed upon the constitutional guarantees of freedom … Continue reading "American Spring?2025-03-19 | Uncategorized
Surveillance in Africa threatens privacy and data protection rights
Address surveillance and bolster personal data and privacy protections through adopting robust legal and regulatory frameworks and repealing restrictive digital laws and policies. Promote and enhance transparency and accountability through the establishment of independent surveillance oversight boards. Strictly regulate the use of surveillance technologies by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to ensure accountability. Collaborate with other countries to develop harmonised privacy standards within2025-03-19 |
President Trump: Stop Bombing Yemen and Exit the Middle East!
Over the weekend President Trump ordered a massive military operation against the small country of Yemen. Was Yemen in the process of attacking the United States? No. Did the President in that case go to Congress and seek a declaration of war against the country? No. The fact is, Yemen hadn’t even threatened the United … Continue reading "President Trump:2025-03-18 | Uncategorized
Ceasefire: Ukrainians Died in Vain
On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine with a small force of around 142,000 troops. Not enough to conquer Ukraine, the invading force was sufficient to persuade Ukraine to the negotiating table. Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that was the original goal of the military operation: “[t]he troops were there to push the Ukrainian … Continue reading "Ceasefire: Ukrainians2025-03-18 | Uncategorized
The Genesis of Sectarian Violence in Syria
Reprinted with permission from The Kucinich Report. While many in Washington claim to defend Christianity and Western values, their policies have led to the systematic annihilation of some of the world’s oldest Christian communities. The same politicians who posture as defenders of faith have not just turned a blind eye to the suffering of Christians … Continue reading "The Genesis2025-03-17 | Uncategorized
Negotiating a Lasting Peace in Ukraine
Reprinted from CommonDreams. There should be little doubt about how a lasting peace can be established in Ukraine. In April 2022, Russia and Ukraine were on the verge of signing a peace agreement in Istanbul, with the Turkish Government acting as mediator. The U.S. and U.K. talked Ukraine out of signing the agreement, and hundreds … Continue reading "Negotiating a2025-03-12 | Uncategorized
Is This the Beginning or the End of a New Cold War?
When European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6th to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron called this time “a turning point in history.” Western leaders agree that this is an historic moment when decisive action is needed, but what kind of action depends on their interpretation of the nature of … Continue reading "Is This2025-03-11 | Uncategorized
Was October 7 Avoidable?
After the Hamas-led offensive of October 7, 2023, it was portrayed as “Israel’s 9/11,” which came out of the blue. Yet, this assumption is not supported by verified facts, including ignored intelligence, abandoned hostages and neglected Israeli communities around Gaza. A day after October 7, Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer said that the “massive attacks by … Continue reading "Was October2025-03-10 | Uncategorized
China’s 6th Gen Warplanes Set To Outgun USAF
It was December 26th, 2024 – Chairman Mao’s Birthday – when a pair of unmarked, unidentified warplane screamed across the skies above Chengdu, a city that hosts the factory of the Chengdu Aerospace Corporation that is known to be currently working on a new fighter jet. Tentatively being called the J-36 and J-XX, (no official … Continue reading "China’s 6th2025-03-07 | Uncategorized
Zelensky Told Trump That Putin Cannot Be Trusted. But Who Killed Minsk 2?
On February 28, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky got the meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump that he had been hoping for. It was an opportunity to sign their agreement on minerals and, more importantly, to improve relations and heal their recent fight. Instead, another fight erupted (you can see the whole discussion below). Much has … Continue reading "Zelensky Told2025-03-06 | Uncategorized
Canary in the Coal Mine: Romania’s Dying Democracy
The commitment of Washington’s European allies to democracy is increasingly fragile, if not hypocritical, as Vice President J D Vance highlighted in his speech to the Munich Security Conference last month. That problem is most acute in Romania. In the first round of the country’s presidential election on November 24, 2024, Calin Georgescu, the candidate … Continue reading "Canary in2025-03-06 | Uncategorized
Is Trump Right About Zelensky’s 4% Popularity?
U.S. President Donald Trump says that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is “very low in Ukrainian Polls.” So low, in fact, that his approval rating is only 4%. Trump is wrong. But he may not be as wrong as mainstream media commentators have accused him of being. And the number he cited may be closer to … Continue reading "Is Trump2025-03-04 | Uncategorized
The Geopolitics of Peace
Reprinted from Consortium News. This is an edited transcript of Professor Jeffrey Sachs’ speech in the European Parliament at an event titled “The Geopolitics of Peace,” hosted by former U.N. Assistant Secretary General and current BSW MEP Michael von der Schulenburg, on Feb. 19, 2025. The transcript has been edited for clarity and annotated. Introduction … Continue reading "The Geopolitics2025-03-03 | Uncategorized
Manifest Destiny in the Histories of the US and Israel
For Palestine and Palestinians, 14 May 1948 was a fateful day in its 4,000-year history. It was also historically pivotal for the United States. Paraphrasing British author, George Orwell, it is essential to rediscover the past in order to gain control of the present and save the future. Eleven minutes after David Ben-Gurion, head of … Continue reading "Manifest Destiny2025-02-28 | Uncategorized
Netanyahu Views the Hostages as His Excuse To Restart the Slaughter
Israel sustained the West’s support for its slaughter in Gaza for 15 months only through an intensive campaign of lies. It invented particularly heinous Hamas war crimes, such baby beheadings and mass rape, for which no evidence has ever been produced. Conversely, it played down its own, even graver war crimes in response to Hamas’ … Continue reading "Netanyahu Views2025-02-27 | Uncategorized
Trump’s Mineral Deal and Pillaging Ukraine
Normally, it is the country that defeated you in war, and not the country that defended you, that pillages you after the war. Unfortunately for Ukraine, its biggest military defender is set to pillage its resources as the two countries have now signed a minerals agreement after Trump warned that a refusal to sign would … Continue reading "Trump’s Mineral2025-02-26 | Uncategorized
President Trump Wants To Cut the Pentagon Budget in Half. How?
Reprinted with permission from The Kucinich Report. It is Presidents’ Day, and President Donald Trump has made a bold statement regarding military spending – one that no other president in modern history has made. He claims he could cut the Pentagon budget by about 50%. President Trump has suggested a major cut in defense spending, … Continue reading "President Trump2025-02-25 | Uncategorized
Torjuntavoitto: The Finnish Strategy That Could Save Ukraine
After three years of stagnation, this past week saw clear steps towards peace in Ukraine. Trump and Putin spoke on the phone, and US and Russian negotiators met face to face in Saudi Arabia for the first time in years. Trump said explicitly that he was “okay” with Russia’s demand that Ukraine be denied membership … Continue reading "Torjuntavoitto: The2025-02-25 | Uncategorized
Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Surveillance Negotiations Raise Constitutional and Human Rights Whirlwind under U.S. CLOUD Act
Introduction to Canada-U.S. CLOUD Act agreement Canadian and U.S. constitutional law diverge on digital surveillance CLOUD Act agreement risks subordinating Canadian constitution to U.S. law U.S. fails to protect human rights domestically and internationally No recourse or remedy if people’s rights violated by U.S. police surveillance Canadian government should reject CLOUD Act agreement to uphold Canada’s constitutional and human rights Acknowledgements2025-02-24 | Transparency and Accountability, canada-us border, CLOUD Act
Should We Celebrate the Demise of USAID and NED?
The opening month of the second Donald Trump Presidency has produced a number of consensus-shattering executive actions that have upended the normal functioning in Washington. One of the most surprising is Trump’s attempt to eliminate the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and defund the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). For decades, USAID and … Continue reading "Should We2025-02-24 | Uncategorized
Gaza Has Changed the Discourse on Popular Resistance, But Are We Truly Listening?
Palestinians and Israelis agree that the Gaza resistance was the main reason behind Israel’s forced decision to accept a ceasefire and begin its gradual withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The oddity is that Palestinians – dying, resisting, but remaining steadfast in Gaza – usually stand at the polar opposite of everything the Israeli government and … Continue reading "Gaza Has2025-02-21 | Uncategorized
Greenlandic Grievances With Denmark and Trump’s Annexation Plan
One of my favorite places on Earth, Greenland, has suddenly become the center of worldwide attention as US President Donald Trump reiterated his 2019 proposal that the US should do whatever it takes to acquire Greenland from Denmark. Trump’s interest stems from Greenland’s strategic location between the US and Russia, its large untapped deposits of … Continue reading "Greenlandic Grievances2025-02-20 | Uncategorized
Hallelujah! President Trump Actually Wants To Give Peace a Chance
Wow! These are the most powerful and consequential 36 words spoken by any US President. Ever. “One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia, and I want to say, ‘let’s cut our military budget in half.’ And we can do that.” Yes, from the … Continue reading "Hallelujah! President2025-02-19 | Uncategorized
Can We Really Cut Half of the Military Budget? You Bet!
The wailing sound you heard last Thursday was the chorus of the Beltway warmongers shrieking in despair at President Trump’s suggestion that there was no reason for the United States to be spending one trillion dollars on “defense.” “…[O]ne of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China and President … Continue reading "Can We2025-02-18 | Uncategorized
South Korea, US committed to denuclearization of North Korea
Seoul, February 16 (QNA) - South Korea's foreign ministry said on Sunday that South Korea Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul and his US counterpart Marco Rubio agreed in bilateral talks in Munich, Germany, to strengthen close cooperation on issues related to North Korea under the administration of US President Donald Trump...2025-02-16 | NEWS, Main Headlines
The Isolation Is Over: Trump Calls Putin
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the U.S. has led an international campaign to shun and isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin. Former U.S. president Joe Biden did not talk to Putin once after the war began. That policy of isolation is now over. On February 12, U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed that he had … Continue reading "The Isolation2025-02-14 | Uncategorized
Indonesia Joining BRICS Is a Huge Deal That Went Unnoticed
On January 6, Indonesia formally entered BRICS as a full member. It was an important geopolitical shift that went largely unreported and little discussed in the mainstream media. BRICS is an international organization whose primary purpose is to balance U.S. hegemony in a new multipolar world. Its roots go back to 1996 and the emergence … Continue reading "Indonesia Joining2025-02-12 | Uncategorized
The Great March of Hope: Gaza’s Defiance Against Erasure
The return of one million Palestinians from southern Gaza to the north on January 27 felt as if history was choreographing one of its most earth-shattering events in recent memory. Hundreds of thousands of people marched along a single street, the coastal Rashid Street, at the furthest western stretch of Gaza. Though these displaced masses … Continue reading "The Great2025-02-10 | Uncategorized
Moving from a Doomsday Clock to a Peace Clock
This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists only moved the hands of the Clock forward by one second, from 90 seconds up to 89 seconds to midnight, which must have come as a relief to the few … Continue reading "Moving from2025-02-07 | Uncategorized
Slashing Foreign Aid Redux
Hot damn! Not only has Elon Musk brought the hammer down on the entirety of the Deep State’s foreign aid boondoggles, but his sleuths have apparently also uncovered one of the Swamp’s most pernicious artifices. To wit, numerous Federal agencies, including USAID, purchase a shit-ton of expensive subscriptions from beltway megaphones like Politico, which by … Continue reading "Slashing Foreign2025-02-07 | Uncategorized
Thirty Years of Middle East Lies Just Keep Coming Back To Bite US
The story: Did you believe it 30 years ago when they told you that the Oslo Accords would bring peace to the Middle East? That Israel would finally withdraw from the Palestinian territories it had illegally occupied for decades, end its brutal repression of the Palestinian people, and allow a Palestinian state to be created … Continue reading "Thirty Years2025-02-06 | Uncategorized
Russia, Iran, and the Caucasian Chalk Circle
Reprinted from the American Committee for US-Russia Accord. It was only a few weeks ago that Russian President Vladimir V. Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met to ink the historic Russo-Iranian Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. The pact itself was a milestone, so much so that commentators around the world are still widely discussing … Continue reading "Russia, Iran,2025-02-05 | Uncategorized
What Does National Security Have To Do With Soaring Defense Spending?
Paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson, the natural progress of things is for prices to yield and for quality to gain ground. Technology is what enables this natural progress. Do televisions cost more now than they did in the early ‘90s? What about mobile phones? Same answer for both questions: both are better and less expensive today than … Continue reading "What Does2025-02-04 | Uncategorized
Trump Should End the Ukraine War Now
President Trump had a simple but profound message about the Ukraine war during his campaign: “I want everybody to stop dying. They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying.” About two weeks into his second term in office, Russians and Ukrainians are still dying, and not just soldiers. On January 29, a … Continue reading "Trump Should2025-02-03 | Uncategorized
Job posting: Systems and Security Technical Lead
Date Posted: 01/30/2025 Req ID: 41494 Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science Department: Citizen Lab Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto) About us: Your opportunity: Essential Qualifications: EDUCATION: EXPERIENCE: Six (6) years working in an Information Technology environment, including at least two years working with Information Security as a significant focus of activity. Requires broad and in depth knowledge of industry innovations and state-of-the-art technology in both computing and networking arenas. IT Security2025-01-31 | Opportunities
A Republic of Spies
In 2021, to his credit, President Joe Biden warned the American public against the dangers of zero-click spyware manufactured by an Israeli corporation. Zero-click is unwanted software that can expose the entire contents of one’s mobile or desktop device to prying eyes without tricking one into clicking on to a link. Biden banned its importation … Continue reading "A Republic2025-01-30 | Uncategorized
Trump & Ukraine: The Coming Battle Over Conscription
There may be a battle looming, not just between the Trump administration and Ukraine over the conscription of men between the ages of 18 and 25, but also within the Trump administration. The call for Ukraine to cast a wider conscription net predates the Trump administration. Facing imminent loss on the battlefield, after NATO had … Continue reading "Trump &2025-01-29 | Uncategorized
Will There Be a Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
One of the earliest points to become apparent about Donald Trump’s second term as president is that there is a significant difference in foreign policy priorities and a vast change in style from his predecessors over the past 8 or 9 decades. Blather about the United States promoting or defending democracy around the world has … Continue reading "Will There2025-01-28 | Uncategorized
Everyone Wants US Forces in Ukraine Except the US
Russia’s now unstoppable advance across eastern Ukraine ushers in the inevitability that Ukraine has lost, and the war will end. The election of Donald Trump ushers in the inevitability that the war will end with a negotiated settlement. Two things are now clear about that settlement: Ukraine will not be in NATO, and Russia will … Continue reading "Everyone Wants2025-01-27 | Uncategorized
The Russo-Persian Partnership Pact: Significance and Implications
Reprinted from the American Committee for US-Russia Accord. At the end of 1829, the social scene in St. Petersburg was abuzz about a charming young Persian prince, who had traveled from Tabriz to the Russian Imperial capital with gifts for Tsar Nicholas I and the Romanov family. The journey of Iran’s Khosrow Mirza, the seventh … Continue reading "The Russo-Persian2025-01-24 | Uncategorized
When Israeli Warplanes Rain Death on Gaza, the Co-Pilot Is Uncle Sam
Originally published on TomDispatch: In recent weeks, political soothsayers have speculated about a wide variety of odious new policies the incoming Trump administration and its allies in Congress may or may not pursue. No one can predict with certainty which of those measures they will inflict on us and which they’ll forget about. But we … Continue reading "When Israeli2025-01-24 | Uncategorized
When Israeli Warplanes Rain Death on Gaza, the Co-Pilot Is Uncle Sam
Originally published on TomDispatch: In recent weeks, political soothsayers have speculated about a wide variety of odious new policies the incoming Trump administration and its allies in Congress may or may not pursue. No one can predict with certainty which of those measures they will inflict on us and which they’ll forget about. But we … Continue reading "When Israeli2025-01-24 | Uncategorized
Federalism, New Hampshire, and the USS Liberty
In 1986, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was awarded the “Seal Medallion of the Central Intelligence Agency ‘In recognition of his outstanding accomplishments as… a leader in establishing the oversight of intelligence…'” By 1995, on the first day of the first session of the 104th United States Congress, Sen. Moynihan informed his colleagues and the nation … Continue reading "Federalism, New2025-01-21 | Uncategorized
Can Trump Fix Our Broken Foreign Policy?
By the time most of you read this column, we will have a new US President. Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated for his second term today at 11:30 AM, Eastern time, and many Americans are hopeful that the disastrous foreign policy of the past four years under Biden will be improved. There is good … Continue reading "Can Trump2025-01-21 | Uncategorized
Joe Biden’s Legacy: Waging Proxy Wars, Spreading Terrorism and Killing Diplomacy
As the sun sets on Joe Biden’s presidency, the Commander-in-Chief and his top staffers are using their final moments in power to convince the American people that we live in a safer and more stable world. “The United States is winning the worldwide competition compared to four years ago,” Biden declared Monday. “America is stronger. … Continue reading "Joe Biden’s2025-01-16 | Uncategorized
Fiscal Redemption Requires a Republic, Not an Empire
There is not a snowball’s chance in the hot place of containing America’s public debt disaster unless the Empire is brought home and the national security budget is slashed by $500 billion per year. The merits aside, all the other big slices of the budget led by Social Security and Medicare are surrounded by nearly … Continue reading "Fiscal Redemption2025-01-15 | Uncategorized
You Can’t Make Peace if No One is Talking
During the Cold War, American and Russian officials and diplomats were in constant communication. The Cuban missile crisis was resolved, not by isolating each other, but by communicating with each other. Contrary to American mythology, the Cuban missile crisis was resolved, not when Kennedy coldly stared down Khrushchev and forced him to back down, but … Continue reading "You Can’t2025-01-14 | Uncategorized