The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

The one thing you can say about Donald Trump in his second term in office is that, whatever he may be doing at home, he’s not fighting any wars abroad, right? Well, actually, wrong! Yes, American ground troops are no longer actively fighting wars around the world, but when it comes to air power, think […]
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Neocons Responsible for Russian-Ukraine War

On August 16, my wife, Vickie, and I attended a conference at the Dulles Airport Hilton just outside Washington, D.C. It was titled “A Blueprint For Peace” and was hosted by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. This institute was started by Rep. Paul at the end of his last year in Congress […]
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No Compromise on Iran and Venezuela

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly stressed the need for both Russia and Ukraine to make difficult but reasonable compromises if progress is to be made toward peace. He has expressed hope that Russian President Vladimir Putin “will be good” and that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will “show flexibility as well.” But Trump has shown […]
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How Western Media Helped Turn Israel’s Genocide Into ‘Fake News’

First published by Middle East Eye Israel’s justification for the mass slaughter of Gaza’s people and their starvation – now officially confirmed as a famine engineered by Israel – was built on a parade of easily discredited lies from the start: of beheaded infants, of babies in ovens, of mass rape. It should surprise no […]
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‘Russiagate’ and the Anchorage Meeting

Reprinted from the American Committee for US-Russia Accord with permission. Most commentators are reporting accurately that President Trump abandoned his previous demand that a cease-fire in Ukraine precede negotiations. He clearly did despite his earlier comments – not the first time he has changed his mind. I believe he did so because he was honestly […]
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DNC Leaders Are Pretending That US Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza

This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic Party had a chance to oppose the U.S. government’s arming of Israel. But with the first Democratic National Committee meeting in seven months getting underway on Monday, the DNC’s leadership is determined to derail a resolution calling for […]
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AI and the Collapse of Business Moats

From Scale to Individual Leverage Example: A two-person startup can now produce marketing campaigns, financial models, and investor presentations that previously required dozens of staff. Indie game developers using AI for art and dialogue design can compete with mid-tier studios that once relied on large teams. From Information Asymmetry to Commoditised Knowledge Example: Legal AI tools such as Harvey or Casetext can draft
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Russia and China Are Not Threats to the US

This article is a continuation of “A Nobel for the Donald?“ To repeat: the geopolitical equivalent of a tree is about ready to fall unheard in the global forest. Once the Trump/Putin peace deal is inked, not one element of the neocons’ scary bedtime stories about Russian aggression will be heard anywhere on the planet. […]
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A Nobel for the Donald?

Donald Trump doesn’t really deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Not after his unprovoked bombing of a country (Iran) that is no military threat whatsoever to the American Homeland. Not after continuing to green-light and arm Israel’s genocidal madness on Gaza and elsewhere. And not, most especially, after fronting for an even bigger defense budget than […]
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The Airline Loyalty Program Revolution

United’s MileagePlus was appraised at $21.9 billion in mid‑2020 while the airline itself was much less valuable. United also secured a $5 billion loan using MileagePlus as collateral—valued around $20 billion. United’s and Delta’s programs were separately valued at $22 billion and $24 billion respectively. From Perk to Balance Sheet Powerhouse Reframing the Business: Airlines as Financial Services Firms Flights became one way to distribute currency. Banks became bulk buyers of
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The Arabs, the Left, and Those Who Remained Silent: History Will Not Forgive You

The consequences of the Israeli genocide in Gaza will be dire. An event of this degree of barbarity, sustained by an international conspiracy of moral inertia and silence, will not be relegated to history as just another “conflict” or a mere tragedy. The Gaza genocide is a catalyst for major events to come. Israel and its benefactors […]
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UK aware of Israel’s ‘terror’ for over 20 years

‘Defensive shield’  RELATED Blair considered a ‘special partnership’ between israel and NATO READ MORE  ‘Routine excessive force’ RELATED ‘Buried alive under the sand’: how British weapons killed Palestinians READ MORE  20 years of support Promoting terrorism RELATED Revealed: The British military college teaching Israeli soldiers READ MORE  But still helping Israel
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What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?

Originally appeared at TomDispatch. On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, Hiroshima Day served to honor the first victims of atomic warfare and to reaffirm the enduring promise that their suffering would not be in vain, that they and the residents of Nagasaki, devastated three […]
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Bret Stephens Is Wrong About Mortality in Gaza

The New York Times columnist Bret Stephens recently claimed that Israel is “manifestly not committing genocide”. His key argument is that if Israel were committing genocide, the war would have been “vastly more deadly”. In actual fact, he notes, the death toll reported by the Gaza Health Ministry is around 60,000—not particularly large by the […]
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Trump and Putin are Ready to Talk. What’s Different?

On August 6, U.S. President Donald Trump posted that special envoy Steve Witkoff had just returned from “a highly productive meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.” Trump said that “Great progress was made!” During that meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the Trump administration with a ceasefire proposal. When asked if it was true that […]
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Heavy Machinery and Patriotic Demolition in the Service of Genocide

Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv is a well-respected holy man in Israel with some devoted followers. He is a dayan, a judge in the rabbinical courts of Tel Aviv, dispensing wisdom in matters of religion and Jewish law. He’s also a reservist in the Seyeret Givati brigade of the IDF and is currently serving in Gaza. There, […]
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No, Nuking Cities Did Not Save Lives

Reprinted From World Beyond War It’s oddly encouraging that the New York Post had to bring up its kookiest rightwing propagandist on Friday to argue that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives. It’s almost as if the New York Times’ kookiest rightwing propagandist’s claiming that killing Palestinians is not genocide had to be one-upped by the Post. It’s even more encouraging that the Post felt obliged […]
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Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror

Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. The indications, then and since, that the development of nuclear weapons did not bode well for human survival, were clear enough. The two small atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed between […]
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Here’s What Gabbard’s Russiagate Report Missed

“An easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia — from a position of strength — is possible. Common sense says this cycle of hostility must end.” Candidate Donald Trump said that on April 27, 2016. At first glance that might sound rather irrelevant to Gabbard’s Russiagate revelations. But let me connect the dots for […]
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Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers

When, in his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the unwarranted influence wielded by a partnership between the military and a growing cohort of U.S. weapons contractors and came up with the ominous term “military-industrial complex,” he could never have imagined quite how large and powerful that complex would become. In […]
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Abandoning Ukraine

The war with Russia is now going very badly for Ukraine. But Ukrainians must feel like the world, and not just Russia, is treating them badly. At the beginning of July, the Russian armed forces took full control of the Luhansk region for the first time. And, though it is too early to tell if […]
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West Bank: Would Annexation Include Citizenship For The Annexed?

On July 23, the Israeli Knesset voted 71 to 13 in favor of a “non-binding” motion to “annex” the West Bank, where Palestinian Arabs have lived under Israeli military occupation since 1967. Naturally, Knesset speaker Amir Ohana disagrees with that plain statement of fact. Channeling Adolf Hitler’s ethno-nationalist claims on Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, Austria, etc., Ohana proclaimed that […]
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Trump White House Calls Netanyahu a Madman: He’s Something Far More Dangerous

Following Israel’s strikes on Damascus, Axios quoted a Trump White House official as saying, “Bibi acted like a madman. He bombs everything all the time”. However, while some on the MAGA or ‘America First’ right might celebrate this as a sign that Trump might further pressure Israel into ending its, as Pope Leo XIV recently […]
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Are We Being Lied to About Ukrainian Losses?

The Western media has resisted the reality that Russia has been winning the war in Ukraine for a very long time. Many outlets continue to insist that Ukraine can win. Recently, some of America’s flagship outlets have begun to fine tune their reporting. The New York Times has expressed concern about a “precarious time for […]
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Is Trump’s Ukraine Arms Deal a Deception?

U.S. President Donald Trump has consistently insisted that the war in Ukraine “is not Trump’s war. This is a Biden war, this is a Democrat war.” But on July 14, it started to look a lot like Trump’s war, as Trump announced “billions and billions” of dollars of American military equipment to be sent to […]
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Israel’s Conservative Counter-Revolution

After its far-right election victory in late 2022, the Netanyahu cabinet’s newly-appointed justice minister, Yariv Levin, claimed that “judicial activism” had ruined public trust in the legal system and made it impossible for the government to rule effectively. Sensing a historical opportunity to remake the Israeli legal system, the new government would seek to “reform” […]
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NATO’s Proxy War against Russia Becomes Increasingly Reckless

The strategy that the United States and its European allies have adopted to use Ukraine as their military proxy in a war to weaken Russia has always involved a sizable element of risk. At some point, Russian leaders might no longer be content with just attacking the puppet that NATO members were using to torment […]
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Trump’s Tariffs Threats Against the Global South, ASEAN and the Philippines

In early April, the Philippines responded with “guarded optimism” to US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, saying higher rates placed on its neighbors could present an opportunity. Hit with Trump’s reciprocal levy of 17%, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) sought to re-frame it by stating that the “the new tariffs put the Philippines […]
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Iran-US Negotiations: Will Non-Violence Prevail?

For the first time in a generation, there was a national consensus in Iran that negotiations with the United States are necessary to resolve the issues over Iran’s nuclear program. Practically every political group and faction, as well as the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, supported talking with the United States. With Israel’s brutal war […]
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Smoothing market entry in a state-guided economy: China's new Private Economy Development Bureaus

Smoothing market entry in a state-guided economy: China's new Private Economy Development Bureaus H.Seidl Tue, 07/15/2025 - 15:21 picture alliance / NurPhoto | Ying Tang Comment Jul 16, 2025 5 min read Smoothing market entry in a state-guided economy: China's new Private Economy Development Bureaus Fewer conflicting regulations could make market entry more predictable for firms Political alignment increasingly determines a company’s chance
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Yörük cuisine in resorts

Many years ago, tourism in Türkiye centered around cultural tours of the country. Tours typically began in Istanbul, exploring key sites on the historic peninsula, particularly the iconic trio of Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and Topkapı Palace, before heading eastward to Anatolia, starting in Cappadocia. After visiting the fairy chimneys and several cave churches, tour buses would head westward
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Searching for Monsters

“America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy … She might become the dictatress of the world, But she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit.” ~ John Quincy Adams (1767-184 In the middle of his term as Secretary of State, the future president John Quincy Adams requested permission to […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 in
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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’
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