The Taliban defeat of the United States is a turning point in world history. Not only will the power of the American empire be weakened, but the War on Terror has also been politically defeated in within the United States. This is the beginning of the end of the American century.
We must not lose sight of what lies behind Israel’s unbridled use of force: American support.
Israeli provocation inside the Al-Aqsa mosque made the recent fighting in Gaza a war of choice for Israeli leaders. US approval also made it a war of American permission.
There is a long history of the U.S. opposing ceasefires when Israel wants to continue bombing.
It is not a coincidence that Israel decided to remind us of its original sin, namely, the Nakba, by celebrating its “independence” in Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza. By committing the Wehda Street massacre, it has taken the so-called “conflict” to its origin.
Over 100 leaders in the Democratic Party call on the Biden Administration to end support for Israeli human rights abuses in Palestine. “Otherwise,” the letter says, “any and all Eid greetings ring hollow.”
“If anything, Biden is simply picking up where Trump left off when it comes to Israel.”
On March 29, activists with the Yemeni Liberation Movement (YLM) launched a hunger strike in Washington DC to demand that the United States end its support for the Saudi-led blockade on Yemen. Michael Arria spoke with spoke with YLM organizer Monica Isaac about the strike, the Biden administration’s response, and how activists have pushed ending the Yemen blockade into the political conversation.
This weekend, Iran and China signed a 25-year cooperation agreement which will cover economic, political, and cultural relations. Juan Cole writes that China’s entry into Iran is the most consequential change in the geopolitics of the Middle East since the the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Joe Biden and his associates appear demonstrably incapable of exchanging the history that they know for a history on which our future may well depend. As a result, they will cling to an increasingly irrelevant past. Under the guise of correcting Trump’s failures, they will perpetuate their own.