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Manifest Destiny in the Histories of the US and Israel

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.
28.02.2025

Ukraine Timeline Tells the Tale

Ukraine Timeline Tells the Tale

Without historical context, which is buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story, but journalists are cut short for trying to tell it now.
26.02.2025

The US Needed Russia to Invade Ukraine

The US Needed Russia to Invade Ukraine

In a moment of candor in March 2022, Joe Biden revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion to launch its three-pronged, pre-meditated war on Russia.
25.02.2025

US "Democratic" Allies Are Becoming Increasingly Authoritarian

US "Democratic" Allies Are Becoming Increasingly Authoritarian

U.S. officials have a long history of portraying Washington’s allies and clients as democratic, even when their behavior is blatantly authoritarian.
17.02.2025

The Catastrophic Resolution

The Catastrophic Resolution

The U.N.’s process on the partition of Palestine led to mass ethnic cleansing, stark inequality, perpetual fear and genocidal war.
14.02.2025

Plan To Ethnically Cleanse Gaza Didn’t Start With Trump

Plan To Ethnically Cleanse Gaza Didn’t Start With Trump

Kicking the Palestinians out of Gaza to neighboring Arab states has always been the plan; it didn’t just emerge out of nowhere when Trump became president.
11.02.2025

Panama Tries Compromise; US Says It’s Not Enough

Panama Tries Compromise; US Says It’s Not Enough

The U.S. secretary of state’s visit to Panama on Sunday in the context of American imperialist history in the Canal Zone and U.S. obsession with China.
04.02.2025

Auschwitz’s Brutal Lesson

Auschwitz’s Brutal Lesson

The stench of decaying flesh still lingered in the barracks of Auschwitz the day I visited in 1987.
03.02.2025

How the West Hides Its Gaza Genocide Guilt Behind Holocaust Day Remembrance

How the West Hides Its Gaza Genocide Guilt Behind Holocaust Day Remembrance

The ghosts of thousands of Palestinian children crushed by Israeli bombs loomed over this year's Auschwitz commemorations.
03.02.2025

30 Years of Middle East Lies

30 Years of Middle East Lies

The “War on Terror” was built on a series of deceptions to persuade the Western public that its leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nourishing it.
03.02.2025

Complaining About China While Your Civilization Crumbles

Complaining About China While Your Civilization Crumbles

Our ancestors set sail to conquer the world; their ancestors built a wall.
30.01.2025

Trump’s Homework on Russia

Trump’s Homework on Russia

As Donald Trump says he wants to end the war in Ukraine, recommends some background reading on the roots of the conflict.
29.01.2025

Gaza’s Unbreakable Resistance: A Historical Perspective on the War and Its Aftermath

Gaza’s Unbreakable Resistance: A Historical Perspective on the War and Its Aftermath

The problem with political analysis is that it often lacks historical perspective and is mostly limited to recent events.
29.01.2025

80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz: Imperialist barbarism returns

80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz: Imperialist barbarism returns

Eighty years ago, on 27 January 1945, the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. The soldiers were presented with an indescribable scene of horror.
27.01.2025

You Can’t Make Peace if No One is Talking

You Can’t Make Peace if No One is Talking

During the Cold War, American and Russian officials and diplomats were in constant communication.
14.01.2025

A Man, A (Bad) Plan, A Canal, Panama

A Man, A (Bad) Plan, A Canal, Panama

In 1989, US forces invaded, conquered, and occupied Panama, replacing its pet dictator, Manuel Noriega with a new regime.
28.12.2024

The Syrian Fiasco

The Syrian Fiasco

About 17 years ago the insufferable former general, Wesley Clark, reported on a talk he once had in the Pentagon.
16.12.2024

The Worst Presidents in American History

The Worst Presidents in American History

There have been 45 men who have been president of the United States. Over the decades there has been voluminous speculation over who were the worst. That distinction now belongs to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
13.12.2024

Net Zero Is Asinine

Net Zero Is Asinine

Ever since the United Nations decided that combating so-called climate change would become its signature issue in the late twentieth century, it has ratcheted up the rhetoric against carbon dioxide emissions.
10.12.2024

The Much Awaited End of KJP

The Much Awaited End of KJP

In a 1977 release, the Talking Heads included a lyric in one of their songs that somehow foresaw the approach to be employed by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (KJP): “You’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything.”
02.12.2024

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