Advertisements There really isn’t any way to sugar-coat Joe Biden’s and his whole administration’s approach to Middle East policy. The foibles that have always plagued U.S. policy in the region are magnified to a monstrous degree with Biden. That includes the extreme bigotry that places no value on Arab, andContinue Reading
Advertisements As Joe Biden’s top enforcer, Antony Blinken, heads to the Middle East yet again to try to force Muslim and Arab states to work to stop Israel’s genocide from sparking a regional conflagration, the administration continues to pour arms into Israel at a breakneck pace, circumventing congressional oversight toContinue Reading
Advertisements The United States has responded to attacks by Ansar Allah (commonly refer to as the Houthis) on commercial shipping in the Red Sea the only way it knows how–by sending huge, expensive military hardware into the area. In my latest piece at Mondoweiss, I examine why this is happening,Continue Reading
Advertisements The strawmen came out in force in a piece by Alexis Grenell in, of all places, The Nation. Using the recent flap over a commencement speech at CUNY, Grenell attacks anti-Zionists, employing the classic and tiresome nonsense about opposition to a political ideology being, by definition, antisemitism. In the latestContinue Reading
Advertisements There were strong reactions to last week’s surprise announcement that China had brokered an agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to normalize relations once again. Most viewed it as a very positive development, although how much impact it will have and whether it will even ultimately last remains toContinue Reading
