ALISON WEIR US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Trump son-in-law and Senior Advisor Jared Kushner, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin flank President Donald Trump as he announces that they brokered a UAE agreement to ‘normalize’ […]
PHILIP GIRALDI The U.S. election will end today, more or less, and we Americans will suffer another four years of putting up with serial nonsense out of a White House and Congress that could care […]
KEVIN BARRETT Will the 2020 elections change history? If they do, it won’t be because one or the other candidate won, but because they accelerated the polarization that brought down the American empire. Political partisans, […]
RON UNZ Glenn Greenwald in 2014. Credit: Davis dos Dantos/Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 3.0 Several years ago during the height of the Edward Snowden/NSA spying scandal, Glenn Greenwald was sometimes described as the world’s most […]
What could possibly go wrong? BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Photograph Source: IAEA Imagebank – CC BY 2.0 For nearly a decade the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has been streaming radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. As […]
BY RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair No matter who “won” the U.S. election, what will not change is the capitalist organization of the country’s economy. The great majority of enterprises will continue to […]
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Fog settles over the Cascade Foothills. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. + Soon we will awaken from the current national nightmare and fall back to sleep into the next. + I don’t know […]
If Pennsylvania goes for Biden, he should move immediately and decisively to declare that Trump has been defeated. By John NicholsTwitter Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks on November 5, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (Drew Angerer / […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The world recognizes what U.S. elites don’t: the utter, total American failure to contain Covid-19 has damaged U.S. standing and will do so until the virus is controlled. […]
BY RON JACOBS Photograph Source: Cpl. Theodore W. Ritchie, U.S. Marine Corps – Public Domain When examining the activities of the US military it is essential to maintain the long view. In other words, despite the […]