Middle East

When the foreign policy of a country as large and significant as the United States is governed by a case of cognitive dissonance, terrible things happen. These terrible things are, in fact, already taking place in the Gaza Strip, where well over 100,000 people have been killed, wounded or are missing, and …

Today’s generation of “leaders” seems not yet to have had their fill of war, hate, and oppression. That tragic fact — not China, not Russia, not any foreign power — is now the greatest threat to this country’s “national security.”

The US “port” in Gaza is not for getting things IN to Gaza. It’s about getting Palestinians OUT. It’s a scheme planned carefully by US-Israel, taking into consideration the needs also of Egypt’s élite etc. Israeli hyper-Zionists have said they would “drive the Palestinians into the Mediterranean” – and that …

Foreboding gray clouds remain on the horizon line for U.S. democracy, Richard Barton writes.

European discussions about sending troops obscures the fact that several NATO countries already have boots on the ground.

Homeland security towers are to be powered by artificial intelligence.

“Make America Great Again” (MAGA) slogans have politically weaponized U.S. empire’s decline, always in carefully vague and general terms.

To surmount the debt crisis, America needs to stop feeding the Military-Industrial Complex In the year 2000, the U.S. government debt was $3.5 trillion, equal to 35% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). By 2022, the debt was $24 trillion, equal to 95% of GDP. The U.S. debt is soaring, …

For decades the world has been exposed to US-weaponized dollar-economics – US sanctions dished out left and right, whenever an autonomous, sovereign regime refuses to do Washington’s bidding. These “sanctions” – as they call them benignly – were and are anything but benign. They bring untold human suffering and kill people. The …

A new report finds that DOD uses ‘security cooperation’ programs for ‘secret wars,’ recommends that Congress rein them in. U.S. military forces have been engaged in unauthorized hostilities in many more countries than the Pentagon has disclosed to Congress, let alone the public, according to a major new report released late last …