Between the Kremlin Cup and the General Staff Lip After Sunday’s Crimea and Dagestan Attacks
Another tug-of-war between the Russian General Staff plus its hawkish friends and Putin.
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Grieving the Family Cat in a Painfully Violent World
Despite large-scale tragedies and wrong, why grieving the death of small friends is not self-indulgent.
Read more...The United States Is the Main Obstacle to Peace in Palestine
A good, high level review of how Israel’s long-standing and now accelerating ethnic cleansing in Palestine depends on US backing.
Read more...The EU’s Outsourced Migration Control Is Violent, Expensive and Ineffective
Does a critique of EU migration policies reveal more than it intended to?
Read more...Israel Threatening to Take on Hezbollah After Cross-Border Attacks Produce Intense Wildfires
Israel desperately wants a hotter conflict with Hezbollah even though Israel is likely to lose bigly. What next?
Read more...Israel Boosterism Keeps Israel Bonds Afloat Even as Some Top Global Investors Exit
Israel bonds, an important element of Israel’s war financing, are coming under attack.
Read more...Italy Pipes Up Against NATO Escalation as Court Ruling Could Cut Off Russian Gas Sooner Than Expected
Italy also faces major energy squeeze from Red Sea crisis. Will opposition to Project Ukraine solidify or will Rome go along as it usually does?
Read more...Ready Reckoner For Killing – The Raisi Assassination
Why the death of Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi looks more and more like an inside job rather than an accident.
Read more...Will Israel Kill Public Support for America’s Bipartisan Consensus?
Could there be a tiny silver lining in the Israel genocide in Gaza?
Read more...Repress U., Class of 2024: How to Build a Homeland Security Campus in Seven More Steps
The apparatus behind the explosion of police crackdowns against campus anti-Gaza-genocide protests has been very long in the making.
Read more...‘To Be America’s Friend Is Fatal’: A Current Overview
Nowadays, to be America’s enemy is largely beneficial.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Economic Costs of Modern War
How economic, military and political costs and consequences are intersecting in the Ukraine and Israel-Palestine conflicts
Read more...Israel Gaza Starvation Ploy Intensifies With Seizure of Rafah Crossings
The Rafah operation is speeding the pace of genocide in Gaza. That looks to be its primary aim.
Read more...“Am I An Extremist? ”
How the UK is using the extremist label to act against people holding mainstream views. The US is not far behind.
Read more...From the History of Israel−Palestine Conflict: The First Palestinian Intifada Against the State of Israel (1987−1993) and its Political Consequences
For those looking for the libretto to the Middle East version of Gotterdammerung, a compact retelling of the First Intifada.
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