BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain ‘Don’t worry, it’s a slam dunk.” —CIA director George Tenet’s response to President Bush’s demand for intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to provide to […]
BY PHILIPPE MARLIÈRE Demonstrators on the July Column. Photograph Source: Roland Godefroy – CC BY-SA 4.0 After imposing an unpopular pension reform, Emmanuel Macron is in serious trouble. Governments make occasional faux-pas and get into trouble. But this […]
BY ANTHONY DIMAGGIO Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Marking the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, The New York Times ran a feature-length article titled, “20 Years On, a Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the […]
BY RAMZY BAROUD – ROMANA RUBEO Photograph Source: Blitz1980 – CC BY-SA 4.0 When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Tel Aviv for Rome on March 9, he was flown to Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv […]
BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for Russian President Vladimir Putin came at an opportune moment. It was, if nothing else, a feeble […]
BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: U.S. Army photo by Spc. Edward A. Garibay, 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment – Public Domain When Australia – vassal be thy name – assumed responsibilities for not only throwing money […]
BY PAM MARTENS – RUSS MARTENS Image Source: CounterPunch U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen finds herself in a very dubious position. Under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010, the U.S. Treasury Secretary was given increased […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain China’s orchestration of the renewal of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia should be a wakeup call to the Biden administration’s national security team, […]
On the ICC, Putin, Netanyahu and Prosecutorial Discretion BY JOHN WHITBECK Photograph Source: kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0 All wars, which by their nature involve killing people and destroying property and infrastructure, are brutal and ugly and […]
BY JOHN P. RUEHL PM attends the 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on September 16, 2022. Days before the one-year anniversary of the Russian […]