by MARTHA ROSENBERG Have you ever heard of African swine fever (ASF) caused by the African swine fever virus (ASFV)? A fourth of the world’s pigs have died from it just this year –– half of all of […]
by PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Tom Evans – OGL Critics lament the disintegration of the British political establishment under the impact of repeated shocks from the Brexit earthquake. Competent politicians and experienced civil servants head for the exit or […]
by MEDEA BENJAMIN – NICOLAS J. S. DAVIES Photograph Source: Hugo Morales – CC BY-SA 4.0 Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal “center-right” and “center-left” governments that benefit the wealthy and multinational corporations at the […]
By Jennifer Steinhauer Log in or create a free account to read more articles each month. WASHINGTON — Tyler Wade was awarded the Purple Heart while serving in Afghanistan, and says he is “proud of everything” he did during […]
by FRED GARDNER “Trump’s Opposition to ‘Endless Wars’ Appeals to Those Who Fought Them” read the headline above a front-page story by Jennifer Steinhauer in the New York Times November 1. The percentage of vets deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan […]
by SARAH SHENKER “They’re watching us,” the Guardians whispered, as we walked in the dark. “But we’re watching them, and this is our forest. We know it inside out. We’ll catch them.” We were heading deeper […]
by NINO PAGLICCIA Once again the international community represented at the United Nations General Assembly on November 7 has spoken and voted to reject overwhelmingly the financial and economic blockade (embargo) imposed by the United States […]
by CONN HALLINA Image Source: Turkish Flame – Public Domain The fallout from the September attack on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil facilities is continuing to reverberate throughout the Middle East, sidelining old enmities—sometimes for new ones—and […]
by ROBERT FISK Photograph Source: Qasioun News Agency – CC BY 3.0 That wars end very differently to our own expectations – or our plans – was established long ago. That “we” won the Second World War did […]
by JOSEPH NATOLI Photograph Source: Roscoe Myrick – CC BY 2.0 “If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this […]