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U.S. War Crimes in Yemen: Stop Looking the Other Way

September 26, 2020

The longstanding involvement of the United States in the conflict in Yemen is facing renewed scrutiny. On September 16, State Department officials testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee …

Iraq Is Going Further Down the Drain

September 17, 2020

Opinion

It was announced on September 9 that the U.S. Administration would reduce troop numbers in Iraq from 5,200 to 3,000 by the end of the month. The commander Central Command, General McKenzie, said the w…

Whither the Arab and the Muslim World?

August 19, 2020

Opinion

An agreement to establish diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel and a Saudi-Pakistani spat over Kashmir coupled with feuds among Gulf states and between Turkey, the kingdom,…

A Dozen Reasons Now is the Time for Housing as a Human Right

August 7, 2020

Opinion

Congress’s inability to actually represent the real-live human beings of America, combined with an economic system that rewards lack of empathy and an excess of greed, has brought us to a dark time wh…

Human Rights and Washington’s Global Britain

July 31, 2020

Opinion

U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo went to London on July 21 because the British government had bowed the knee to Washington and obeyed Trump’s orders to cut commercial contact with China’s Huawei technol…

Setting Pompeo Loose on the Concept of ‘Human Rights’ Is a Warning the US Is About to Violate a Lot More

July 20, 2020

Opinion

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has unveiled what he calls a “moral foreign policy,” attempting to limit other nations’ power to declare unalienable human rights. The aim, as usual, is legitimizing …

Which Is the Most Totalitarian Country?

July 17, 2020

Opinion

Is it the country that has a higher percentage of its citizens in prison than any other? That’s the U.S. Is it the country that prosecutes an entity for having murdered 196 of its citizens but prohibi…

Conservatives Are Comparing Racial Justice Protestors to Maoists

June 23, 2020

Opinion

In their effort to transform their discomfort with the current #BlackLivesMatter protests into a superficially sophisticated critique, right-wing “intellectuals” in the United States and Europe have l…