by VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Torbenbrinker – CC BY-SA 3.0 On June 11, Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic)—a country of 7 million in Southeast Asia—said it had temporarily prevailed over COVID-19. Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith said that his country […]
As we look inwards to dismantle America’s legacy of racism that pervades the law enforcement and national security apparatuses, we must also recognize that racism and militarism are mutually reinforcing. by: Nima Gerami The racism […]
“With American lives on the line, the question now is whether members of the Republican Party will continue to stand by in silence as the President peddles fiction about a deadly virus.” by: Eoin Higgins, […]
“The crisis offered an especially lucrative opportunity for those lobbyists who enjoy close ties to President Donald Trump and his administration—and they seized it.” by: Jake Johnson, Demonstrators attend a protest in Center City Philadelphia […]
“The science is clear that if we keep exploiting wildlife and destroying our ecosystems, then we can expect to see a steady stream of these diseases jumping from animals to humans in the years ahead.” […]
by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Portland under federal occupation. Photo: Bette Lee. Der Spiegel: Professor, two weeks ago the world still seemed in order… Theodor Adorno: Not to me. + They came for Portland and Portland didn’t […]
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 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 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 EVE OTTENBERG Pulp mill, Halsey, Oregon. Photo:L Jeffrey St. Clair. The only good thing to say about Covid is that it caused carbon emissions to drop. Not enough to save humanity from catastrophic climate change, […]