Now Congress is Trying to Legislate Permanent Intelligence Sharing With Israel
Advertisements Last week it was the NDAA. This weeks it’s the must-pass Intelligence Appropriations bill. A section of that bill would not just authorize but REQUIRE, but for narrow exceptions, a vast array of sharing of US intelligence, not only with Israel but with any country that joins the AbrahamContinue Reading
Democracy Denied: How the World Leaves Palestine Behind
Advertisements The world’s refusal to even consider allowing Palestinians to decide their own future is not a product of the October 7 attacks. The democracy exception for Palestine has been a constant feature of Mideast “diplomacy.” Read more at The Battleground Continue Reading
What Centrist Democrats Really Mean When They Say “Vote Blue No Matter Who”
Advertisements While corporate Democrats talk of the need to defeat Republicans, their actions reveal that they are willing to risk that victory to prevent the sort of progressive change that voters want. Read more at Cutting Through Continue Reading
Will Trump sideline Israel in order to make a deal with Iran?
Advertisements Donald Trump has a choice. Accept the MOU on offer which will ease the flow of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and will be viciously attacked by Israel and its supporters in Washington. Or he can go back to bombing and plunge the global economy into further chaos. ReadContinue Reading
A Foreign Policy Failure: Trump’s Defeat in the Middle East
Advertisements As Donald Trump blunders his way, incapable of deciding if he wants to end the war with Iran and deal with the heat from his far-right allies, including Israel, or plunge the world even further into economic crisis, his unfitness for the job has never been clearer. Read more atContinue Reading