Democratic Party

( Middle East Monitor ) – A groundbreaking federal lawsuit has been filed against US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accusing him of systematically failing to implement US law that prohibits military assistance to foreign security forces involved in gross human rights violations, according to legal documents seen by Middle East Monitor (MEMO). The lawsuit, […]

Democratic Party

Progressives must Act to Protect the most Vulnerable: mere Resistance to Trump is not Enough

Tomdispatch

By Ira Chernus ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Count on one thing: the next four years are going to be tough. If you can muster the energy for political action while Donald Trump and his minions rule Washington, it will have to be channeled in two ways: first, resisting the worst excesses of him (and his […]

Featured

What Rough Beast? President Biden’s Gaza Policy Leaves the Middle East in Flames

Juan Cole

This is my summation of President Joe Biden’s Middle East policies for Tomdispatch.com. Check out Tom Engelhardt’s searing introduction. And note his recommendation for my new book, Gaza Yet Stands.. ( Tomdispatch.com ) – President Joe Biden has now joined the ranks of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush as a president whose Middle East […]

Democratic Party

Gaza: Harris lost because her Party represented War Mongering, Q.E.D.

Shamai Leibowitz

( The Times of Israel) – My beloved grandmother Savta Greta z”l often liked to use the acronym “Q.E.D.” – an abbreviation of the Latin phrase “quod erat demonstrandum” which means “that which was to be demonstrated” — signifying the end of a mathematical proof or logical argument. Essentially, it indicates the argument has been […]

Democratic Party

As UN warns entire Population of Gaza is at Risk of Death, Bill Clinton says he’s not keeping Score

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bill Clinton is a Rhodes scholar and a voracious reader. He is not a stupid man. He is, however, morally stupid. I’m not referring to his personal life but to his remarks on Israel’s behavior in its total war on little Gaza. Clinton came to Michigan and said, “I understand […]

Democracy

Pennsylvania’s Undecideds: The 2024 Election Will Likely Turn on the Democrats’ Ground Game

Bob Dreyfuss

( Tomdispatch.com ) – If you’re like many of my friends, I know what you’re thinking: OMG, how is it even possible that half the country is going to vote for that guy? And there’s a slightly less common corollary to that: I mean, really, who are these people who say that they’re undecided? Who […]

Israel/ Palestine

How Netanyahu’s Ambitions in Lebanon undermine Biden’s Middle East Strategy

Foreign Policy in Focus

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The Biden administration’s approach to the Middle East crisis that erupted in the wake of October 7, 2023 is on the brink of collapse. Israel’s aggressive maneuvers, coupled with Iran’s growing involvement, are pushing the region toward a full-scale war, one that the Biden administration ostensibly hoped to […]

Hizbullah

Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran

Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies

( Code Pink ) – On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), Hezbollah and Hamas. There are conflicting reports about how many of the missiles struck their targets and if there were any deaths. But Israel is now considering a counterattack that could […]

Democratic Party

Harris-Trump was the Worst Smack Down of a Republican Presidential Candidate since Kennedy-Nixon

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Vice-President Kamala Harris held Donald Trump accountable for his record as president, and his promises (actually threats) about what another Trump presidency would bring. It was probably the most devastating debate defeat for a Republican presidential candidate since Richard Nixon, dogged by a five o’clock shadow and […]