Tag: Yemen
U.S. Troops Back in Saudi Arabia: What Could Go Wrong?
Jul 22, 2019
I’m not aware of a foreign terrorist threat against the US in which the stated motivation was anything other than opposition to US military imperialism.
Read MoreThe Obama Wars
Jul 11, 2019
Obama’s legacy of warmaking has largely been maintained, advanced, and imitated by bipartisan consensus and by Donald Trump.
Read MoreCongress Finds its War Powers and Weaknesses
Feb 1, 2019
While Congress may be moving to the US war in Yemen, it’s also working to ensure the continuance of war and hostilities elsewhere.
Read MoreThe Triumph of Evil
Oct 25, 2018
Evil has achieved dominance over good so that avarice and lawlessness will escalate their destruction of truth, peoples, and life on earth.
Read MoreWhy Haven’t Dead Yemenis Sparked US Outrage? Max Fisher Won’t Say.
Oct 22, 2018
Max Fisher in the New York Times purports to explain why thousands of dead Yemenis haven’t sparked US outrage. Instead, he goes out of his way not to.
Read MoreWhere Does Our Attention Belong: Kavanaugh or Yemen?
Sep 29, 2018
The real question before the American people is why they are stone silent while Washington enables Saudi Arabia to murder the Yemeni people.
Read MoreYemeni Children Matter
Aug 14, 2018
People will care if you show them what to care about and make clear that their political party identification need not conflict with caring.
Read MoreShould Al Qaeda Be Made the 51st State?
Aug 9, 2018
Bringing back the Russian menace is not working. Al Qaeda is the answer. If there were no Al Qaeda, the US government would have to invent one.
Read MoreAltruism and Sadism in Public Policy
Jun 25, 2018
There are three things that are almost always underestimated: the U.S. military budget, altruism, and sadism.
Read MoreNew War Opponents
May 21, 2018
While the left’s anti-war activism evaporated upon Obama’s election and remains disappointingly absent under Trump, on the brighter side, there are large, well-funded organizations beginning to edge toward opposition at least to certain wars.
Read MoreQatar-Iran Economic Relations Will Improve, Contrary to Saudi Arabia’s Intent
Oct 27, 2017
Saudi Arabia’s attempt to isolate Qatar will backfire and lead to Qatar improving economic relations with Iran.
Read MoreSaudi Arabia Has Handed the Emir of Qatar an Opportunity to Redirect History
Jun 30, 2017
What if the Emir of Qatar expelled US military forces from his country’s soil?
Read MoreThe Uncomfortable Truth: Are We Hating Donald Trump for the Wrong Reasons?
Feb 10, 2017
The hypocrisy of criticizing Trump on the axiomatic assumption that that the warmakers who preceded him were peacemakers is simply too much to bear.
Read MoreThe War Horror Has Begun
Jan 25, 2017
This new war horror show has passed without notice, as though it were somehow just a continuation of acceptable norms.
Read MoreWill the Gulf of Tonkin Fit into the Red Sea?
Oct 18, 2016
Why it doesn’t matter whether the USS Mason was actually fired upon by Yemenis.
Read MoreDamned Nations, Cursed Arms Trade
Oct 4, 2016
Samantha Nutt in her book Damned Nations describes a root cause of war that the wealthy of the world could easily eliminate.
Read MoreThe European Migrants Crisis: The West Has Lost the Moral High Ground
Jul 8, 2016
Migrants wait as the self-important leaders of Europe decide whether political expediency has a higher value than that of human life.
Read MoreTo American drones, do African lives matter?
Apr 1, 2016
How much longer can Washington’s self-defeating foreign policies endure?
Read MoreOn the Saudi “Terrorist” Designation for Hezbollah
Mar 22, 2016
The true reasons why the Saud regime has designated Hezbollah as a “terrorist organization”.
Read MoreMiddle East : The Way Ahead
Nov 13, 2015
A unified Middle East will prove to be the first step towards actual world peace.
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