BY TOM H. HASTINGS It’s Budget Season in DC and the swamp is in full bloom. Republicans refuse to offer a budget. Why is that? After all, they are demanding that Biden and his Democrats promise […]
BY RAMZY BAROUD Photo by Nijwam Swargiary The phrase ‘fake news’ continues to be deployed routinely in US politics. In a polarized political atmosphere, both Republicans and Democrats distrust media organizations affiliated with opposing parties. This means […]
BY ASHLEY SMITH Image by BP Miller. On Tuesday, the U.S. right suffered three major defeats. Trump was indicted on 34 felony counts in Manhattan. Union-backed liberal Brandon Johnson came seemingly out of nowhere to narrowly win over Republican-in-Democratic-Party-Robes Paul […]
BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Photograph Source: The U.S. Government – Public Domain Arguments around nuclear deterrence can become quickly convoluted. But the basic premise, according to those who advocate it, is that we are safer with […]
BY ANTHONY DIMAGGIO Photograph Source: Robert F. W. Whitlock – CC BY 2.0 It borders on cliché the number of times historians lament how “fascism” is an over-used term. But Sinclair Lewis, writing about the specter of […]
BY RON JACOBS FacebookTwitterRedditEmail It wasn’t on quite the same level as the joy I experienced when Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency in 1974, but I do admit a gleeful grin broke out on my […]
More Than ‘Democracy’ is at Stake in Israeli Protests BY RICHARD FALK Photograph Source: Oren Rozen – CC BY-SA 4.0 There are two interwoven conflicts currently playing out in Israel, but neither, despite the Western liberal spin, […]
BY MEL GURTOV Photo by Mika Baumeister The Bomb is Ticking The odds are against us. That is the bottom line in the latest IPCC report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on global warming, the most […]
BY ROGER MCKENZIE Photo by Joel Rivera-Camacho Imagine the uproar if China or Russia—or any other country for that matter—said it aimed to exercise military control over land, sea, air, and space to protect its interests and […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Michael Fleischhacker – Public Domain Throughout the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union used covert methods of political intervention and conflict, and pursued proxy wars, election interference, and […]