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 […]
by ROB URIE The political success of Russiagate lies in the vanishing of American history in favor of a façade of liberal virtue. Posed as a response to the election of Donald Trump, a straight line […]
by BETTE LEE On the 59th night of BLM protests on July 25th at the federal courthouse, I was one of the thousands of protestors who went there. It took me a while to struggle through my […]
by DEAN BAKER Moderna, a relatively new biotech company, has generally been seen as the leading U.S. contender to develop a coronavirus vaccine, although it trails several Chinese companies. Whether or not its vaccine pans out, it […]
by DAVID ROVICS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I have been a resident of Portland, Oregon since 2007. So I have been hearing from more people than usual lately, all asking the same question: what’s going […]
by LAWRENCE DAVIDSON Photograph Source: Briantrejo – CC BY-SA 3.0 I traveled to Israel and the Occupied Territories in the early 2000s with the progressive group Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. We made an effort to gain insight […]
by CHARLES PIERSON Image Source: DOD Updater Private – CC BY-SA 4.0 Somehow, Congress couldn’t find the time last week to renew extended unemployment benefits or the federal moratorium on evictions. Congress had something more pressing to […]
by TOM CLIFFORD General Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. and President George Bush visit US troops in Saudi Arabia on Thanksgiving Day, 1990 – Public Domain Beijing. The consequences are still reverberating three decades on, obviously in Iraq […]
By: craig Murray There is a misperception in western media that Lukashenko is Putin’s man. That is not true; Putin views him as an exasperating and rather dim legacy. There is also a misperception in […]
Israeli & Lebanese analysts on Beirut blast & Israel IF AMERICANS KNEW The aftermath of Tuesdays blast in Beirut’s port area. Aug. 5, Reuters/Mohamed Azakir. Two commentaries below about the recent massive explosion in Beirut felt […]