Joe Biden

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 […]

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 […]

Israel/ Palestine

Biden lost the Vote of this Pastor over Gaza. Harris must earn it Back

contributors

( New Jersey Star-Ledger ) – I cannot see President Biden without seeing 40,000 dead Gazans. He rightly stepped aside after his disastrous debate with Donald Trump, but he continues to lose a far more disastrous debate with Israel’s Prime Minister, weakening the basic principles of US foreign policy. Alongside his humiliating failure to achieve […]

Democratic Party

The Democratic Party’s Culture of Compliance and the Biden Debacle

Tomdispatch

By Norman Solomon ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The Biden campaign drove the Democratic Party into a ditch and speculation is rampant about grim prospects for the election. But little scrutiny has gone into examining how such a dire situation developed in the first place. Joe Biden was on a collision course with reality long before […]

Australasia

Blinded to all but the Anglo-Saxon “Five Eyes:” The Bias of US Policy toward Asia

Michael T. Klare

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Wherever he travels globally, President Biden has sought to project the United States as the rejuvenated leader of a broad coalition of democratic nations seeking to defend the “rules-based international order” against encroachments by hostile autocratic powers, especially China, Russia, and North Korea. “We established NATO, the greatest military alliance in […]

Donald Trump

Trump called Biden a “Weak Palestinian:” is the P-word the new N-Word?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – During CNN’s sh*tshow — I mean, debate — Trump at one point insisted that Biden let the Israelis “go” at the Palestinians: You got to ask him, as far as Israel and Hamas, Israel is the one that wants to go. He said the only one who wants to keep […]

Featured

Netanyahu openly Reneges on Ceasefire, Stabs Biden in Back, Charging US cut off Weaponry

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In an interview on Israeli Channel 14, the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “The heavy duty phase in the war is about to end with the end of the operation in Rafah. Therefore, the forces will be moved to the north.” By “north” he meant […]

Democratic Party

Not your Father’s Israel: Extremist Israeli PM Netanyahu is Playing Biden and Blinken for Fools

H. Scott Prosterman

Though Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries signed onto inviting Israeli PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu to address Congress on July 24 in the “spirit of bi-partisanship,” many US and Israeli Jews loudly object. They plan a major demonstration in Washington to show up his address. The organization UnXeptable is organizing an effort to have […]