BY MICHAEL HUDSON Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The collapses of Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse is […]
BY HARVEY WASSERMAN A dozen years after four atomic reactors exploded at Fukushima, the plant STILL daily irradiates 150 tons of water which must be treated and stored forever. Thousands of tons more of such lethal […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Titan II ICBM at the Titan Missile Museum in Arizona. Photo Jurvetson (flickr) Arms control and disarmament are on life support, and John Bolton and the Washington Post have predictably come along to try to […]
BY SAND BRIM Gathering at mass grave for victims the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Photo: Gail Sullivan. The 1973 Siege at Wounded Knee is the longest “civil unrest” in the history of the US Marshal […]
BY JOHN PILGER Photograph Source: Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Argentina – Videoconferencia con Julián Assange – Foro Cultura Digital – CC BY-SA 2.0 I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London […]
BY THOMAS KNAPP Photograph Source: Solen Feyissa – CC BY 2.0 The US government’s bi-partisan war on your right to publish embarrassing videos of yourself proceeds apace. As of March 6, Reuters reports, the White House is […]
BY JAMES BOVARD Photograph Source: DSS Agent in commission of duties (acknowledged in photo caption) – Katz, Samuel M. – Public Domain Thirty years ago last week, the largest terrorist attack in American history up to […]
BY RICHARD C. GROSS Photograph Source: John Samuel – CC BY-SA 4.0 “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” — George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher, 1863-1952 We in the West watch the slaughter in Eastern Europe […]
BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER The 13-metre, 500-tonne, reactor pressure vessel arriving last month at Hinkley Point C. It was built at the notorious and scandal-ridden Le Creusot forge. The unfinished nuclear plant is shaping up to be […]
BY ROGER HARRIS The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain The Havana Syndrome was first reported in Cuba in 2016. The mysterious malady initially afflicted US embassy staff […]