by RICHARD C. GROSS Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair It seems as if President Donald Trump is trying to sabotage the November election by publicly proposing postponing it and denigrating the untouchable democratic mainstay by repeatedly […]
by MEDEA BENJAMIN – NICOLAS J. S. DAVIES Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions and no less than three U.S. aircraft carrier strike […]
by ROY EIDELSON Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair First came the new names—Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and others—all added one by one to the long list of tragic, unjustifiable police killings of Black Americans. Then came the batons, […]
by PAUL STREET John Lewis lying in state at the United States Capitol – Public Domain New Age Racists Anyone who thinks it was fine and proper for the Jeffrey Epstein pal Bill Clinton to be a featured […]
by DAVE LINDORFF high southwest view aerial of Los Alamos Los Alamos National Laboratory (left) and Los Alamos townsite (middle and right) 75 years ago before dawn on July 16, 1945, a cataclysmic explosion shook the […]
by JOHN PILGER Photograph Source: Oilstreet – Own work – CC BY 2.5 When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a […]
by LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Photograph Source: Davis-Besse NPP.jpg: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Original uploader was Theanphibian at en.wikipedia – Public Domain It would be tempting to describe last week’s nuclear scandals — in three states — as […]
by SONALI KOLHATKAR When Congress passed the CARES Act earlier this year, lawmakers gave some low-wage Americans who lost their jobs an income they’ve been demanding for years: $600 a week, which works out to $15 […]
by DEAN BAKER Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair There continues to be enormous confusion about what we should be trying to accomplish in the next pandemic relief package. This is best demonstrated by Republicans’ obsession with […]
by T.J. COLES Artist rendering of ground and space based laser weapons. Image: US Air Force. “Space is now a distinct warfighting domain,” says the U.S. Defense Space Strategy. Last week, corporate media repeated U.S. military propaganda: that Russia […]