The War Abroad There Is No "Threshold" For "Managing" a Mideast War U.S. foreign policy needs to abandon this concept, since it's blinding us to how regional conflicts escalate
The War Abroad FOREVER WARS x TECH WON'T SAVE US Paris Marx and I talk about the technological aspects of genocide, from quadcopter drones to artificial-intelligence target generation. ALSO: IRON MAN x Big Planet!
The War Abroad It's Giving Neocons-in-2003 Triumphalism Get in, loser. We're redrawing the balance of power in the Middle East, something that never goes wrong
The War Abroad Moment of Truth for The Iranian 'Axis of Resistance' (video) Talking about the aftermath of Israel's assassination of Hassan Nasrallah with MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin. PLUS: A haunting new documentary, "Starving Gaza"
The War Abroad U.S.' Military Future in Iraq 'Is Not A Withdrawal,' Officials Declare The Iraqi PM wants the U.S. out. The U.S. instead negotiates a "transition" to an "enduring bilateral relationship."
The War Abroad A New Tactical Era of Supply-Chain Sabotage at Scale Preliminary thoughts on Israel's mass detonation of pagers in Lebanon. Now we have a different angle to understand the assertion that supply-chain vulnerabilities are national security concerns
The War Abroad Blinken Signals There Will Be No Justice for Aysenur Eygi Telling Israel to "fundamentally change" its "operations" in the West Bank assumes its continued occupation of the West Bank
The War Abroad Unseen Photographs of U.S. War Crimes Emerge Thanks to The New Yorker, photographs of the 2005 U.S. massacre at Haditha, Iraq have come to light. So many more remain hidden
The War Abroad They Have To Call Bisan Owda A Terrorist A young journalist living through a genocide documents the reality of life in Gaza. I'll destroy my Emmy if they rescind her nomination
The War Abroad Remembering My Friend Emad Hassan, Who Should Never Have Been in Guantanamo Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantanamo detainee who now leads CAGE's Guantanamo Project, eulogizes the Yemeni man beyond the shadows of the torture prison. Part 2 of a 2-part series
The War Abroad EXCLUSIVE: Oman Expels Two Dozen Ex-Guantanamo Detainees To Yemen After less than a decade out of the infamous wartime prison, at least 24 Yemeni men have learned they weren't "resettled," after all. Part 1 of a 2-part series
The War Abroad U.S. Dooms Its Red Sea Mission by Denying Gaza Link The commander of U.S. Naval forces in the Mideast can't define an end-state for his mission. It's staring him in the face
The War Abroad The Cowardice of Lloyd Austin In canceling the Guantanamo plea deal, the defense secretary is lying to still-grieving 9/11 families. It's craven and cruel
The War Abroad If Harris Will Be Different from Biden on Israel, This Is Her Chance to Show It It's a regional war. Now that Israel has killed Hamas' leader on Iranian soil, it's set to get much worse. Deescalation is the only option. Will the VP choose it?
The War Abroad Harris' National Security Adviser Sounds Like The Status Quo on Israel/Palestine Will Harris' approach to Israel be any different from Biden's? Not if a recent speech by her senior foreign-policy aide is any indication
The War Abroad Harrison Mann on Escalation in the Middle East The U.S. Army major and intelligence analyst recently resigned over Gaza. With Lebanon in the balance, he walks FOREVER WARS through some nightmare scenarios
The War Abroad Netanyahu, As Predicted, Humiliates Biden With Lebanon on the brink, how many wet willies is Biden prepared to tolerate? PLUS: The "most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II" is a failure
Paid-members only The War Abroad An Unmissable Gaza Documentary Al-Jazeera's 'Fault Lines' program has put together a crucial report called "The Night Won't End." PLUS: Hanging at Guantanamo with a future Trump national security adviser
Paid-members only The War Abroad A Saudi Nuke? Biden Is About To Give 'Mr Bone Saw' What He Needs [Director's Cut] The U.S. president is pulling out all the stops to get a deal with Saudi Arabia. My latest for Zeteo
Paid-members only The War Abroad 'Great Power Competition' As Human Sacrifice The Pentagon ran a disinformation campaign to make Filipinos distrust vaccinations rather than see them take China's free COVID vaccine. That's what 'Great Power Competition' truly is
The War Abroad 'Phase 2': The Shape of Israeli Rejectionism To Come Biden has declared that Israel's reasonable war aims have been achieved. Netanyahu is in no position to agree. Only U.S. pressure can break the impasse. Will Biden apply it?
The War Abroad Memorial Day Reading: Abdul Raziq, Revisited—and Revealed If people you cared about died in Afghanistan, you'll get righteously angry reading about the monsters that they were sacrificed to prop up. Good weekend for it
The War Abroad Biden Unites With Republicans Against International Criminal Court It's a death spiral for the 'Rules-Based International Order' as Team Biden says it's open to retaliation against the war-crimes court for indicting Israel's genocidaires.
The War Abroad ICC Indictments Deepen The Crisis of The 'Rules-Based International Order' With Netanyahu and Gallant facing war-crimes charges, the U.S. once again faces a chasm between international law and the world Washington made.
The War Abroad Ex-State Dept. Official on Paused U.S. Weapons Shipment: 'Significant But Not Cause for Celebration' For the first time, the Biden administration has withheld delivery of bombs to Israel. Josh Paul, who resigned over Gaza, explains the bigger picture