The US Biden administration couldn’t resist the temptation to launch major military strikes against Houthi forces in Yemen. In doing so, it brought renewed attention to the fact that the presidential exercise of war powers has become routinely unconstitutional.
The mainstream US liberal-left has gone so far down its own ideological rabbit hole in its desperate effort to prevent a second presidential administration of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump that they are openly undermining the democratic system they profess to defend.
Yemen’s Houthi movement has been in the spotlight recently for its military actions in the Red Sea; multiple commercial ships have been targeted in an attempt to warn Western powers, in particular, the United States and the United Kingdom, to end their support for the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip.
The limited impact of economic sanctions on Russia represents an additional data point proving that the West, even when relatively united, no longer rules the world. Indeed, its losing streak in major 21st century military conflicts continues unbroken, and it serially overestimates its ability to shape global affairs.
Social media giant Meta has been called out by US Senator Elizabeth Warren for censoring pro-Palestinian messages on Instagram, treating one side in the ongoing conflict entirely differently from the other in terms of its moderation policies.
The US House of Representatives passed a resolution last week which redefined the term anti-Semitism in such a manner to brand billions of people—probably the global majority—as being “anti-Semites.”
The US government stands alone among the world’s major nations in supporting the continuing massacre of the civilian population of Gaza.
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has adopted “moral clarity” as one of her leading slogans in her quest to gain the Republican nomination for president. This is a key intellectual concept behind the neoconservative movement which reached a peak under the presidency of George W. Bush; it is effectively a coded call to embrace a forever war in pursuit of US global primacy.
Fresh from successful contract negotiations with major US automakers, the United Auto Workers (UAW) has taken a stand by officially endorsing a permanent ceasefire as Israel resumes its attacks on the Gaza Strip.
The recent crash of a US Air Force CV-22 Osprey aircraft off the southern coast has once again highlighted Japan’s enduring lack of control over its own territories, even 78 years after the Pacific War.
