By Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly Three years after taking the oath of office, President Trump has made more than 16,200 false or misleading claims — a milestone that would have been unthinkable when we first created the […]
Techniques included waterboarding and other forms of torture Hopes that trial will cast more light on scale of program Julian Borger The two psychologists who designed the US “enhanced interrogation” programme that included waterboarding and […]
By Larry Romanoff Some years ago, David Ignatius wrote an article in the Washington Post titled, ‘Replant the American Dream’ (1), in which he told of travelling the world as a foreign correspondent some 35 years ago, and […]
by JOHN FEFFER Still from “Spaceballs.” With a stroke of a pen, Donald Trump created an entirely new branch of the armed forces last year. It’s the first new branch of the U.S. military since 1947. […]
by ERIC MANN Photograph Source: Marion S. Trikosko, U.S. News & World Report Magazine – Public Domain Every year, until The Revolution comes again, the counter-revolution manipulates the historic birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, that […]
by JAMES C. NELSON Photograph Source: DonkeyHotey – CC BY 2.0 On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down one of its worst and most activist decisions ever. Indeed, in terms of […]
by SHELDON RICHMAN Photograph Source: Gage Skidmore – CC BY-SA 2.0 If you wonder what the post-Trump Republican Party will look like, take a glimpse at Tom Cotton, one of the US senators from Arkansas (where I […]
by PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Tasnim News Agency – CC BY 4.0 Today Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei gave his first Friday sermon in Tehran for eight years to an audience of thousands, as he tried to calm down the […]
Here are the senators and representatives who own stock in Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and other top defense contractors. By David Moore and Donald Shaw Global Research, Sludge produces investigative journalism on lobbying and money in politics. The American […]
By Shane Quinn American governments have intervened in dozens of countries globally since 1945, either directly by military invasions, indirectly through funding of elite opposition groups and stimulation of unrest, or covertly from its special services […]