The Gods of Small Things
by JOHN KENDALL HAWKINS Photograph Source: Michael Coghlan – CC BY 2.0 O brave new world that has such people in it! – William Shakespeare, The Tempest One of the great things about the Covid-19 silver lining playbook […]
Category: USA
Governments are Using COVID-19 Crisis to Crush Free Speech
by PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Beatrice Murch – CC BY 2.0 Stop those non-humans who are writing and provoking our people,” says Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov in an Instagram video. The non-humans he objects to are journalists who criticise the Chechen […]
Factory Farming on Hold
by EVE OTTENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Covid-19 has infected meat-packers, almost 12,000 of them. At least 48 have died and many plants have temporarily closed. So it seems like a good time to ask, […]
Why Russiagate Still Matters
by ROB URIE Photograph Source: Samuel Mann – CC BY 2.0 A thought experiment with a purpose is to ask: if a group of former Directors of the CIA, NSA and FBI put forward a story about […]
Russia Denies US Accusations Concerning Aircraft to Libya
By Steven Sahiounie US Army Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander, US Africa Command, released a statement on May 26 accusing Russia of sending Russian military aircraft to Libya to support the Libyan National Army (LNA). The accusations are […]
Racism and the Empire’s Executioners?
“George Floyd and Officer Derek Chauvin Worked as Security Guards for Same Minneapolis Night Club” By Philip A Farruggio From a recent report by the Insider publication: “George Floyd and Officer Derek Chauvin actually worked for the […]
Drawing Battlelines: US Openly Targets China’s “Belt and Road”
By Tony Cartalucci Judging by US foreign policy – China is a massive global threat – and by some accounts – the “top” threat. But a threat to what? AFP would report in its article, “Trump […]
Trump Versus Twitter
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Sawing off the branch you sit on can hardly be the best of policies. But that all depends on the nature of the branch. US President Donald Trump has huffed himself into another small […]
Black Alliance for Peace Calls on United Nations to Address Human Rights Crisis in the United States
Extrajudicial murders of African/Black people borders on genocide By Black Alliance for Peace The extrajudicial murders of African/Black people, such as Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, by agents of the U.S. government and armed […]
Racism in US: The African-American Dystopia
By Germán Gorraiz López The totalitarian drift suffered by the United States during the mandate of George W. Bush caused that in the name of the holy-holy security of the State, in practice, the principle of inviolability (habeas […]