Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
Three years into Sudan’s war, the death toll, famine, and mass displacement are staggering. Yet unlike Ukraine, Gaza, or Iran, Sudan still struggles to command sustained media attention or geopolitical urgency. iPINIONS argues that neglect has less to do with racism or religion than with the brutal fact that Sudan offers the West little strategic… Read more.
While the media elevates the release of one Israeli hostage, it’s ignoring a man-made famine killing thousands of Palestinians. In this latest post on iPINIONS Daily, I explain how Netanyahu isn’t just permitting this suffering; he’s engineering it. From starvation to scorched earth, he’s turning Gaza into a graveyard to bury the two-state solution once… Read more.
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue [Blah blah blah] If, like me, you attended primary school in the 1960s or 1970s, you probably had to learn to recite the poem “In 1492” in its entirety. Teachers taught this poem with no compunction about the cultural annihilation and plunder it glorifies. Christopher Columbus, the disoriented explorer… Read more.
Sudan’s lost promise: from potential powerhouse to civil war hellscape In 2011, Sudan seemed on the brink of becoming a regional powerhouse, poised to rival Egypt as a stable and relatively prosperous autocracy. Decades of civil war between the Arab-dominated north and the predominantly Black African south led to the creation of South Sudan. That… Read more.
Biden’s feckless threat President Biden threatened to stop supplying offensive weapons to Israel if it invades Rafah. Over a million Palestinians fled there after Israel invaded northern Gaza. Both Republicans and Democrats are making much ado about this threat: Republicans are accusing Biden of betraying Israel. They’re virtue signaling by drafting legislation in a vain attempt to force… Read more.
The accusation of genocide is credible Israel appears guilty as accused. The US is Israel’s most committed defender in the international community. Yet, even President Biden has warned Israel that it is losing international support because of its indiscriminate bombing of Gaza. But nothing betrays Israel’s genocidal intent quite like Israeli government ministers threatening to drop a nuclear bomb on Gaza. Furthermore, discussions about resettling displaced… Read more.
Now she’s waking up not only with fleas, but in jail … presumably tamed for the rest of her life. Trump’s coup blueprint goes global Frankly, the military is only doing over in Myanmar what former President Trump tried to get the military to do here in the United States. Myanmar’s generals even parroted Trump’s… Read more.
History is littered with public figures who betrayed the public trust. But no betrayal has been more shocking and disillusioning than Aung San Suu Kyi’s complicity in genocide against the Rohingya. I have vented my own shock and disillusionment in such commentaries as “Aung San Suu Kyi Becoming Democratic Mascot of Myanmar’s Military Dictatorship,” March… Read more.
In a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday, a special commission to South Sudan described the state of the country in the starkest terms possible. Atrocities like murder and gang rape are happening on an ‘epic’ scale, reported the commission’s chief, who warned that the world’s youngest country now ‘stands on the… Read more.
I had a profound sense of déjà vu yesterday listening to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton threaten intervention by the United States if the Syrian government uses weapons of mass destruction against its own people. Concerns are that a besieged President Bashar al-Assad will deploy WMDs to finally exterminate the popular uprising that has been… Read more.
