Tag Archives: USA
America’s forever foreign policy debate: Groupthink recipe for perpetual disasters
Lawrence Davidson says the confinement of Washington's foreign policy debate to insiders dooms the US to repeat its fiascos and renders its policy "the product of the desires of dominant lobbies pursuing parochial interests". Read more [...]
Horizon scanning in Afghanistan
Mohamed El-Doufani* writes:
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The poison of nationalism
Graham Peebles writes:
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How to undermine a diplomatic triumph: Biden and the Iran nuclear deal
Lawrence Davidson notes the Biden administration's misinformation that seeks to blame Iran for the failure to reinstate the nuclear deal, a failure he attributes to US "ideologues tied hand and foot" to the Israel lobby. Read more [...]
US Zionist academics align themselves with the power of a proven apartheid state, Israel
Lawrence Davidson writes:
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We can defeat the corporate media’s war to snuff out independent journalism
Jonathan Cook highlights "mainstream" media's efforts "to shape the values and worldview of its readers, over time limiting the range of possible thoughts they are likely to entertain", and how new technology "has offered us new tools in our struggle and… redrawn the battleground". Read more [...]
The US Democratic Party’s big mistake – support for Israel
Dan Lieberman shows how the US Democratic Party's – and President Biden's – support for Israel not only undermines US interests worldwide, but also serves to bolster chauvinists and racists all over the world. Read more [...]
Lest we forget: Israel’s armed aggression against the Christian Church
Stuart Littlewood reminds us of the gratuitous brutality visited upon the Church of the Nativity – the most famous of Christian churches — by the Israeli occupation army and the wanton, murderous brutality inflicted by the Israelis on the church's occupants. Read more [...]
Joe Biden’s heartfelt illogic about Israel
Lawrence Davidson argues that in contrast to his domestic policies, US President Biden's foreign policy in the Middle East in general and towards Israel in particular is not only stale and worn out, but is also riddled with hypocrisy and contradictions. Read more [...]
New symbolic role for the Israeli flag: A standard for white nationalists, Christian nationalists and nationalist thugs in suits
Lawrence Davidson: Israel "has attracted the rising wave of today’s rightist fringe like bears to honey. Whether they are white nationalists, Christian nationalists or just nationalist thugs in suits, they all sense something laudable in Israel." Read more [...]
