Economic hegemony has been the cornerstone of U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf since the end of the Second World War. America’s “special relationship” with Israel, a term first coined by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, is founded on business. Economic supremacy was also at the heart of the oil-for-security bargain that the United States sealed with oil-rich Saudi Arabia after World War II. More
“I tell my children there are two ways to lie. One is to tell me something that didn’t happen, and the other is not to tell me something that did happen.” –Al Tompkins “I’ve been a reporter for 20 years; the reporters of those who believe more sympathetically about Israel and its right to exist More
On Buckner’s watch, the Bloomington campus made national headlines last spring with a viral photograph of a state police sniper atop the iconic Indiana Memorial Union building overlooking campus war protests. Three floors below the gunman’s sights, in the historic Free Speech Zone known as Dunn Meadow, armed Indiana State Police with riot shields advanced on peaceful protesters, evicted them, tore down their encampment, and arrested fifty six. More
The Iranian retaliation against Israel followed a week of political ploy and military subterfuge. On the political level, Iran’s newly elected reformist president extended conciliatory gestures at the UN General Assembly, while the Supreme Leader issued somber statements of resignation in what seemed to be an acceptance of fate. On the military front, U.S. intelligence More
