Writers in Israel’s leading paper decry ‘apartheid’ — as liberal Zionist leader calls it a distracting ‘label’ Liberal Zionists in the U.S. have helped enforce a red line in the mainstream discourse against using the […]
Mohamed El-Doufani* writes Dr Farhang Jahanpour, an Iranian academic and journalist living in the UK, sheds light on the reasons for the chequered relations between Iran and the West, primarily the United States, and highlights the main drivers […]
www.gsn-online.com Does the prospect of a ceasefire and another round of talks mean peace might finally break out in Yemen? The UN estimates the conflict has killed more than 400,000 people since 2015, with over […]
BY DEAN BAKER Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair There are legitimate debates over what tax rates should be, even if many of us consider the current tax rates on the rich and super-rich far too low. […]
BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Mass shootings are good for gun sales. In the days following the horrific massacre of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, firearm manufacturers’ stock prices predictably rose. Gun owners, who have been […]
BY SAM PIZZIGATI Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair If progressives in the United States could somehow cut our current gap between CEO and worker pay by a hefty three-quarters, would the USA rate as a relatively […]
BY PAUL STREET Image Source: This image is copyrighted by the BBC – Fair Use Remarkable bird, id’nit, squire? Lovely plumage! – Michael Palin in the Monty Python “Dead Parrot Sketch,” December 7, 1969 I shoulda […]
BY TOM ENGELHARDT Screenshot from Cspan Once upon a time, long, long ago — actually, it was early in the year 2000 — I was involved in publishing Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. It […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Paul Keller – CC BY 2.0 There is an insidious and unspoken connection between our gun culture at home and abroad. U.S. politicians and pundits believe that huge defense budgets provide international […]
BYJulia Conley, Common Dreams Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday threatened to further escalate the war in Ukraine in light of Western countries’ continued military assistance to the former Soviet state, warning the U.S. and other […]