BY JOHN FEFFER Photograph Source: kreetube – CC BY 2.0 First, let’s be clear: Russia already invaded Ukraine. At the end of February 2014, Russian soldiers without insignia seized key facilities in Crimea and then helped secessionists […]
BY ROBERT JENSEN Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair We are at a tipping point in the racial history of the United States — perhaps the most important moment since the civil rights and more radical black/brown/indigenous […]
Photo by Shoah Israel Pushes Hardline in Iran Nuclear Talks BY MEDEA BENJAMIN – ARIEL GOLD After a 5-month hiatus, indirect negotiations between the U.S. and Iran resumed last week in Vienna in an attempt to […]
BY CHRIS HEDGES Photograph Source: Newtown grafitti – CC BY 2.0 Let us name Julian Assange’s executioners. Joe Biden. Boris Johnson. Scott Morrison. Teresa May. Lenin Moreno. Donald Trump. Barack Obama. Mike Pompeo. Hillary Clinton. Lord Chief […]
BY CHRISTOPH IRMSCHER Photograph Source: Becker1999 – CC BY 2.0 Science denial is alive and well in the United States, and the mainstream media are often complicit with it. “I represent science,” Anthony Fauci, the anti-science movement’s […]
BY PAUL STREET Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Sixty percent of the U.S. populace backs Roe v. Wade and just 27 percent back its undoing even as the nation’s right-wing Supreme Court is strongly predisposed to reverse the decision […]
BY RICHARD FALK – DAVID KRIEGER Photograph Source: MAPW Australia – CC BY 2.0 Richard Falk: We have been waiting for President Biden to offer the world a more responsible nuclear posture, but to date our patience […]
BY JOHN PILGER Photograph Source: Newtown grafitti – CC BY 2.0 “Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us” – Jean-Paul Sartre Sartre’s words should echo in all […]
BY CHARLES PIERSON The vote wasn’t even close. On December 7, the US Senate voted 30-67 against a joint resolution (S.J. Res. 31) which would have blocked a $650 million US arms sale to Saudi Arabia. […]
BY PRABIR PURKAYASTHA Photograph Source: francis mckee – CC BY 2.0 Fighting global warming is not just about providing a path to net-zero carbon emissions for all countries. It is also about figuring out how best to […]