For decades, Gulf rulers mistook access to America for influence, but now, with the Iran war, they finally see they are viewed as disposable on the front lines of the U.S. empire.

The Trump administration’s extraordinary and unprecedented move to effectively expel South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was done for one reason: South Africa had the audacity to hold Israel accountable for the Gaza genocide.

The 2024 presidential election was more than just a setback for the Democrats. It exposed the entrenched racism of the country’s myopic political elite, which features a bipartisan moral blindness toward injustice abroad notably the genocide in Gaza.