The president pretends that his administration is working overtime to save lives in Gaza: The United States is committed to pulling out every stop to get more aid to those in Gaza who desperately need it. We won't stand by. We won't let up. None of this is true, but...
Stop the ‘Flood’ of US Weapons Into the Gaza War
The delivery of U.S.-made weapons to Israel over the last five months has been massive: The United States has quietly approved and delivered more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel since the Gaza war began Oct. 7, amounting to thousands of...
The Flour Massacre and the Airdrop Gimmick
The illegal and pointless U.S. war in Yemen continues There is no question that the Israeli government is responsible for these deaths. It is beyond shameful that the US would block a statement that says so, but it is consistent with the administration’s indefensible...
The People of Gaza Are Being Deliberately Starved
The illegal and pointless U.S. war in Yemen continues: The U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri charges Israel with the deliberate starvation of the Palestinians of Gaza: “There is no reason to intentionally block the passage of humanitarian aid...
Another Pointless Round of Bombing in Yemen
The illegal and pointless U.S. war in Yemen continues: The U.S. and the United Kingdom conducted a series of strikes at 18 Houthi targets at eight different locations inside Yemen Saturday, part of a continuing effort to fight back against the Iran-backed group that...
Another Indefensible US Veto at the United Nations
The U.S. used its veto at the UN Security Council for the third time in this war to block a call for an immediate ceasefire: The U.S. vetoed an Algerian proposal at the United Nations Security Council that called for a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza, saying that a...
US Forces Should Have Left Iraq and Syria Years Ago
There’s a lot that could be said about Gen. McKenzie’s op-ed defending a continued U.S. military presence in Syria and Iraq, but these claims are clearly untrue: In the end, American troops are in Syria and Iraq to prevent ISIS from being able to attack our homeland....
‘Unfathomable Catastrophe’ Looms in Gaza
Michael Wahid Hanna calls on the U.S. to avert further catastrophe in Gaza: It is hard to imagine things getting worse, but an assault on Rafah would up the ante. The US is the only power that can stop it. To do so, it will have to exert a degree of pressure it has so...
The Cynicism of Biden’s ‘Defense’ of Democracy
Paul Poast is half-right in his assessment of Biden’s foreign policy: To put it bluntly, the Biden administration’s approach to foreign policy is realpolitik from top to bottom. This isn’t necessarily bad. A realpolitik approach to foreign policy enables Biden to do...
The US Has Never Been ‘Dragged’ Into the Middle East
Hal Brands repeats a very popular lie about U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East: Every recent president gets their Middle Eastern war, whether they want it or not. Since Ronald Reagan’s time, each administration has engaged in at least one significant military...
