BY HENRY GIROUX Detail from a U.S. Air Force map of Hiroshima, pre-bombing, circles drawn at 1,000 foot intervals radiating out from ground zero, the site directly under the explosion. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). […]
BY ANTHONY DIMAGGIO Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The Biden administration has given new life to a national discussion about the dangers of social media-induced misinformation following its request that Facebook censor Covid-19 anti-vaccination propaganda. Biden lamented the […]
BY BARBARA G. ELLIS On a beautiful summer morning, I came down the driveway of my upscale apartment complex for the daily powerwalk in a good mood. That vanished when confronted by a livid fellow tenant […]
BY SONALI KOLHATKAR When a reporter in early July asked Joe Biden a question about the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. president sniped back, saying, “I want to talk about happy things, man.” Biden revealed, perhaps unintentionally, […]
BY MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS – VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Susan Ruggles – CC BY 2.0 During the early morning of July 17, Johana Tablada joined tens of thousands of Cubans as they gathered along the Malecón […]
https://www.democracynow.org After the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse at his home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s interim government says it has asked the United Nations and the United States to send troops to help secure key infrastructure. […]
“We must resist the urge to let our pain dictate our policy,” said Rep. Sara Jacobs. “If we don’t, we will have learned nothing from the last 20 years.” KENNY STANCIL Following Thursday’s blasts outside Kabul’s […]
The demand comes as Biden is set to have his first meeting with the far-right Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. ANDREA GERMANOS When President Joe Biden sits down Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, he […]
“Every last dollar of the $6 billion must be used to help save Afghan lives, not to boost Pentagon contractor profits,” said Win Without War. KENNY STANCIL As U.S. lawmakers fight over how to reappropriate the roughly $6 […]
BYDaniel Falcone, Truthout The corporate media in the U.S. were complicit in the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, argues historian Hannah Gurman, and they also were “boosters of Obama’s efforts to rebrand the war.” In this […]