War, What is It Good For?
BY TOM ENGELHARDT I was born on July 20, 1944, amid a vast global conflict already known as World War II. Though it ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 before […]
War Prevention Depends on Respecting Invisible Geopolitical Faultlines
BY RICHARD FALK Photo by Luca Bravo If we look back on the major wars of the prior century and forward to the growing menace of a war fought with nuclear weaponry, there is one prominent gap […]
Les Miserables, Living and Dying on American Streets
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Statistics lie. Some lie more than others. The ones regarding unemployment lie brazenly and have done so for years, erasing the very existence of the long-term unemployed by […]
Who is Zakhar Prilepin, the Russian ‘nationalist’ writer injured in a car bombing?
The prolific novelist and pundit is in critical condition after the blast Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin. © Joel Saget / AFP Novelist and political activist Zakhar Prilepin, who has participated in Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, was […]
Abolish the CIA
BY EVE OTTENBERG Richard Helms in the White House Cabinet Room, March 27, 1968. Photo: White House. Just about every lousy U.S. foreign policy escapade from the 1950s to the late ‘70s traces back to the […]
Western Sanctions on Russia and Belarus Starve the World
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Jens Galschiøt – http://www.aidoh.dk/ – GDFL Russia is a breadbasket of the world. It is the globe’s third biggest wheat exporter, way ahead of Ukraine, the eighth, and the world’s biggest fertilizer […]
Peacemaker No More: U.S. Diplomacy in Decline
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: 7C0 – CC BY 2.0 Two astounding events occurred in March – a peace pact between longtime, ferocious enemies Saudi Arabia and Iran, and the presentation to Moscow of a peace deal […]
Carnage: Guns and Fascism in Armed Madhouse Amerika
BY PAUL STREET A downtown Louisville bank slaughter 11 days ago was the 150th mass shooting (an incident in which 4 people other than the gun-wielder were shot) in the United States (US) in 2023. There […]
Capitalism, Racism and Selling the AR-15
BY ANDRES D. MEDELLIN Photograph Source: Fibonacci Blue – CC BY 2.0 When it comes to mass shootings in the United States (like the one that just took place in Nashville), the figures are unequivocal. “Active shooter” […]
A Fascist Assault upon the Individual “Right to Change”
BY STEPHEN F. EISENMAN Caravaggio, Conversion on the Way to Damascus (detail), 1601, Santa Maria Del Popolo, Rome. The Right to Change The fundamental right to change is under assault by a generation of American fascists […]