A new wave of progressive, left-wing, and socialist candidates and elected officials face an enormous challenge in articulating a foreign policy for the future. Here’s a start.
The UK's new sanctions on Israeli settlements may be groundbreaking, but they're also full of loopholes. F-35 parts are exempt, the state itself is untouched, and enforcement won't start for months. Real progress, but far from enough.
Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed a warning about the attack from United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed. Hamas immediately offered to release all Israeli hostages taken in the attack, demanding nothing in return, but Israel refused the deal.
Mass opposition to Chile’s far-right Führer
The Hollywood actor criticized the concentration of power in the hands of the Ellison family, while also mentioning the family's ties to Israel. Antisemitism is a real threat in America today, but this isn't an example of it.
Elections galore
The label goes to candidates who back endless war and block Medicare for All, while a CNN poll now finds a third of Democrats calling themselves socialists. Scolding them as interlopers plays well with donors and nowhere else.
Women are not exempt in Israel’s eyes from being killed, from being assassinated, from being targeted. And in that sense they’re paying just as heavy a price in life as are the men.
What are the major threats we face? The list begins with the possibility of nuclear annihilation. Next, possible ecological collapse. Following this, we must prepare for new pandemics. And, achingly, we must oppose genocide. War is not the answer.
In what will be seen as this year’s most significant election Dr Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and massive US military support to Israel became central themes actively debated across the state
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