The Middle East

Morality is not something that can truly be “enforced” by violence. We must find it in our hearts.

Today, women are leading the charge at the front of this uprising; some are taking off their head covering and some even burning their scarf or shaving their hair in front of cheering crowds.

Cholera has been reported throughout Syria but cholera has plagued Aleppo, Syria’s second most populated city.

A military occupier and an occupied nation do not have equal rights and responsibilities. The news agencies are setting the narrative as per their interest, not by truth.

With innocent Afghans impoverished and starving, the U.S. must return money that’s rightfully theirs.

Progressive organizations in the United States urged the Biden administration to condemn Israel’s attacks on the Palestinian NGOs.

Can we finally speak honestly about Bush & Cheney's “Little War"?

How AIPAC went from Lobbying for Israel to quashing Progressives and backing Jan. 6 Insurgents.

Rick Chertoff: If the Obama Administration is successful in winning American participation in a nuclear agreement with Iran, it will be in part because of the widening split in an American Jewish community whose values are no longer governed by a taboo against disagreeing with the dictates of Israel.

Rick Chertoff: In shooting down Gazans in cold blood and in broad daylight, the Israeli government, supported by the vast majority of its people, made it clear that they have traded any trace of Jewish values that are humane and universal for the wielding of very illegitimate power over defenseless oppressed people.

Rick Chertoff: Omar’s real crime was to break the taboo against criticizing the powerful Israel Lobby, comparable to the NRA in influence, which is the American mouthpiece of the Israeli government.

Biden did what all presidents do: He gave priority to strategic and economic interests ahead of human rights.

Saudi Arabia is one of the top destinations in the world for human traffickers, slave labor and sex trafficking. It is out of control.

Biden’s visit comes on the heels of the U.S. government’s whitewashing of Israel’s assassination of beloved Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

What Israelis refuse to face is the fact that governments which are predicated on rightwing, far-right, extremist constituencies are inherently unstable.

In the U.S., reports of the killing seem poised to lay the blame on Israel, even if not stating it outright – with the exception of The New York Times where it’s business as usual, covering for Israel at all costs.

While prolonging the siege will achieve no short or long-term strategic value, lifting the siege, from Israel’s viewpoint, would be admitting defeat and, possibly, empower Palestinians.

More than 465,000 Syrians have been killed in the Syrian civil war and over 12 million have been displaced.