The Cost of the Nation’s Endless Wars
BY JOHN W. WHITEHEAD “Autocrats only understand one word: no, no, no. No you will not take my country, no you will not take my freedom, no you will not take my future… A dictator bent on […]
Lessons Not Learned From the Pentagon Papers
BY ALFRED DE ZAYAS Image Source: Time magazine – Fair Use In June 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, a US government military analyst with the Rand Corporation and senior research associate at the […]
Fifty Years of Resistance
BY HOWARD LISNOFF Photograph Source: University of San Diego – Public Domain If only for a short time, the forces of good and evil and all of the shades in between came together. The protester and Yippie […]
A Dangerous Fishing Expedition: The Select Committee on China
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy – Public Domain Riled up against China, GOP congressmembers have long felt that Washington’s new cold war needed a special venue. So as soon as […]
Liquidating the Legacy of Revolution: Ideology of the Russian Invasion
BY ANDRIY MOVCHAN ‘Bolsheviks sacrifice Russia to the International’ — White Guard caricature, 1918-19 1991, Leningrad. The private office of the deputy mayor of the city. A reporter for the city’s television channel interviews a young […]
When Neoliberals Declared War on the Poor
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR – ALEXANDER COCKBURN Homeless encampment on abandoned overpass, Portland, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. For Bill Clinton and Dick Morris polls were everything. Morris developed what he called a “neuro-psychological profile” of […]
The Problem with ‘Israel’s’ So-Called ‘Crisis of Democracy’
The Problem with Israel’s So-Called ‘Crisis of Democracy’ BY NEVE GORDON Photograph Source: Daniele Marcucci – CC BY 2.0 Since the start of the new year, reading about Israel in the Hebrew-language press has been an unnerving […]
War in Ukraine and ICBMs: The Untold Story of How They Could Blow Up the World
BY NORMAN SOLOMON Photograph Source: U.S. Air Force – Public Domain Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, media coverage of the war hasn’t included even the slightest mention of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Yet […]
The Day the World Should Have Changed
BY PATRICK MAZZA The Trinity explosion, 16 ms after detonation. The viewed hemisphere’s highest point in this image is about 200 metres (660 ft) high – Public Domain There was a day when humanity was invited […]
The Chinese Balloon: the Biden Team’s Hot Air
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Department of Defense – Public Domain Over the past 60 years, U.S. presidents have benefitted from advice from moderate and pragmatic advisers as well as examples of presidents ignoring such advice […]