The War in Questions
Making Sense of the Age of CarnageBy Tom Engelhardt My first question is simple enough: After 18-plus years of our forever wars, where are all the questions? Almost two decades of failing American wars across a […]
Tomgram: Mandy Smithberger, Letting the Pentagon Loose With Your Tax Dollars
Tomgram: Mandy Smithberger, Letting the Pentagon Loose With Your Tax Dollars Posted by Mandy Smithberger Who doesn’t remember, as a child, making that Christmas wish list for Santa and his elves? As it happens, in this […]
UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer’s Zionist Hall of Shame
Jon de Rennes writes The following is a list of Labour friends of the apartheid state of Israel (Labour Friends of Israel – LFI) in Keir Starmer’s team Shadow Cabinet 1. Emily Thornberry2. David Lammy3. Rachel […]
Capitalism’s Voracious Appetite: Bodies are the Commodities
by KATHLEEN WALLACE Image Source: Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man, attributed to J. H. W. Tischbein (c. 1780) The allure of capitalism has never been a clean or ethical one—the very roots are predicated on a […]
The Washington Post’s Neocons are Beating Cold War Drums…Again
by MELVIN GOODMAN Image Source: F Delventhal – CC BY 2.0 The Washington Post has a reputation as liberal and even left-of-center, although its editorial pages are dominated by neoconservatives who support the idea of American exceptionalism and the […]
Beware the Pentagon’s Pandemic Profiteers
by MANDY SMITHBERGER At this moment of unprecedented crisis, you might think that those not overcome by the economic and mortal consequences of the coronavirus would be asking, “What can we do to help?” A few companies have […]
Back to Work! Trump’s COVID-19 Capitalist Cure Back to Work!
by JEFF MACKLER U.S. capitalism’s would-be savior, the “moron” President Donald Trump, sees his re-election prospects tied to a “re-invigorated” economy based on sending U.S. workers back to work close to the height of the deadly […]
Mapping Militarism 2020
by DAVID SWANSON A new collection of maps found here displays what militarism looks like in the world. Here’s a brief guide to using and understanding them. Across the top are 10 drop-down menus on these topics: Wars, Weapons, […]
Bangladesh: Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees Stranded at Sea
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Rights groups urge Bangladesh government to allow some 500 Rohingya stuck in the Bay of Bengal to come ashore. Hundreds of Rohingya refugees are stranded on board two fishing trawlers in […]
N.Korea: Kim Jong Un Whereabouts of DPRK Leader
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Until now, it’s all rumors and unverified reports, but that has not stopped Twitter users from exulting in its favorite Kim death cult. Following the public absence of North Korean leader […]