BY JACOB G. HORNBERGER The New York Times published an article yesterday that denied that U.S. officials promised Russia at the end of the Cold War that NATO would not expand membership to Warsaw Pact countries. Unfortunately, the article misses […]
BY MEDEA BENJAMIN – NICOLAS J. S. DAVIES The Pentagon has finally published its first Airpower Summary since President Biden took office nearly a year ago. These monthly reports have been published since 2007 to document the number […]
BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Headline photo of an atomic detonation by FEMA/Wikimedia Commons. “Long live deterrence to dissuade nuclear attacks” blasted the headline on Gwynne Dyer’s December 6, 2021 column in The Hill Times. And then came this subheader: […]
BY WENDELL GRIFFEN Photograph Source: Jason Riedy – CC BY 2.0 This year, the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission, an agency of the Arkansas Department of Education, has invited an un-reconstructed Southern Baptist preacher, right wing […]
BY DEAN BAKER The December job report again showed an extraordinary divergence between the establishment survey and the household survey. The establishment survey showed the economy creating just 199,000 jobs, while the household survey showed a […]
BY RAMZY BAROUD Photograph Source: Jeanne Menjoulet – CC BY 2.0 Although 2021 is now behind us, there are many issues that will linger for a while, or much longer, and will certainly dominate much of the […]
BY PETER COSTANTINI Photograph Source: Ken Mayer – CC BY 2.0 A large encampment of mainly Haitian migrants appeared abruptly in September at a border crossing in the town of Del Rio, Texas. The reactions to it […]
BY K.J. NOH Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other members of the Biden Cabinet are fond of proclaiming the “rules-based international order” (RBIO) or “rules-based order” every chance they get: in […]
BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: Marco Verch – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Julian Assange has now been in the maximum-security facilities of Belmarsh prison for over 1,000 days. On the occasion of his 1,000th day of imprisonment, campaigners, supporters and kindred […]
BY SAM PIZZIGATI l Photograph Source: concrete&fells – CC BY 2.0 Our conventional political wisdom, here in the United States, tends to see utopians as lefty egalitarians of one sort or another, clueless reformers and revolutionaries who […]