One of my family’s favorite regular getaways is Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. The roller coasters are top notch, the shows are fun, and everyone is in a constant state of joy; it’s great. It’s also a veteran’s hangout. Every day when the park opens…

President Trump professed to be extremely pleased with the results of his recent summit meeting with Xi Jinping in South Korea.  Indeed, with his typical hyperbole, he rated it “a 12 out of 10.” Trump expressed special satisfaction with the conclusion of…

I recall when then-President Barack Obama was planning to send troops to enforce his “Assad must go” policy in Syria, many Republican US Senators passionately argued that the US President must come to Congress for approval before sending US troops into combat…

On Saturday, 8 November, 2025, Dan Perry wrote in The Jerusalem Post about Israel's projected lifting of the media blockade on Gaza. Perry laments that Israeli censorship has left all reporting of the atrocity in the hands of Palestinians, who refuse to be…

For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth – it instead brings death, dismemberment…

While the country's attention was drawn to the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), which purports to designate the ideology of antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization" and directs…

Washington D.C.’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine continues to grind up lives. Increasingly, the war looks like an indefinite hellscape, though there have been bright moments of hope. U.S. President Donald Trump has at times seemed sincerely committed…

Reprinted from The Realist Review. Large, conventional wars break old structures and change the world around them. They shatter societies and individuals in a tempest of carnage and displacement. Even if the outcome is not decisive, as it often is not, the…

On October 29, just before meeting with China’s President XI Jinping, President Trump posted on the right-wing social media network Truth Social that “because of other countries [sic] testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing…

Recently, a classified report by a U.S. government watchdog discovered that Israeli military units have committed “many hundreds” of potential violations of U.S. human rights law in the Gaza Strip. The findings by the State Department’s Office of Inspector…

Reprinted from TomDispatch: There’s one rule in the age of Donald Trump. When it comes to him, you simply can’t rule anything out. It’s true that, only recently, when asked about the possibility that he would order military strikes not just on ships off the…

On November 9, The New York Times published an update on the situation with Iran’s nuclear program. The article contains some valuable material. But it also gets three important things wrong. The article badly misses the shift in relations in the region.…

Children are a gift from God. In a world rigged against the little guy – where BlackRock and its ilk scoop up homes while families scrape by on shrinking paychecks – the laughter of a child can cut through the despair like sunlight through storm clouds. I’ve…

The Trump administration is pushing an Israeli-crafted resolution at the UN Security Council (UNSC) this week aimed at eliminating the possibility of a State of Palestine. The resolution does three things. It establishes US political control over Gaza. It…

Last Thursday dawn, Israeli settlers set fire to the Hajja Hamida Mosque in the Palestinian village of Deir Istiya in the north of the West Bank. Photographs taken at the scene showed racist, anti-Palestinian slogans sprayed on the walls of the mosque, which…

Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv re-establish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide, but the entire legacy of Israeli colonialism in Palestine and the Middle East. The perfect little story, built…

The second phase of President Trump’s fragile 20-point Gaza peace deal appears to have stalled.  Implementation of the first phase of the peace plan was monitored by a contingent of high-ranking U.S. officials visiting Israel amid reports of escalating violence…

Reprinted from TomDispatch: Donald Trump remains a mystery man of some eerie sort. After all, just ask yourself, why in the world did he only recently announce that this country was going to “immediately” resume nuclear testing, not having tested a nuclear…

On November 10, the Israeli parliament passed the first reading of a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners convicted of killing Israeli individuals, with 39 votes in favor and 16 against out of 120 members. The bill would make it mandatory…