BY MARCY WINOGRAD Image by israel palacio. The Department of Defense recently announced it would send nearly $3 billion more in weapons and assistance to Ukraine. The White House news of the largest Ukraine arms package yet–rockets, […]
BY VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Ricardo Stuckert/PR – Agência Brasil – CC BY 3.0 BR Former Brazilian President Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) runs about on stage at the Latin America Memorial in São […]
BY RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair At the end of July, an economic adviser working for Bank of America wrote a memo that got leaked. It made bluntly explicit the long-standing common knowledge among savvy […]
By Stuart Littlewood The decision to slap mighty Russia with sanctions and effectively declare economic war on this key supplier of energy, foodstuffs and precious metals, among other things, then provide weapons and know-how to Russia’s […]
BY ISHMAEL REED Photograph Source: Mike Shaheen – CC BY 2.0 During the summer of 1967, I wrote my second novel in an apartment in the Echo Park Lake section of Los Angeles. Riots had broken out […]
BY HENRY GIROUX Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain The Orbánization of Fascist Politics The malicious passions of fascism are with us once again, evident in the emergence of diverse regimes of predatory […]
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Radioactive steam plumes from the shattered reactor #4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Photo Credit: USFCRFC, IAEA, Imagebank. “Is it possible that such minds are fit to govern?” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge […]
Fake Neutrality: How Western Media Language Misrepresents Palestinians, Shields Israel By Ramzy Baroud While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favor of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, […]
BY MIKE GARRITY Image by Sarah Worth. Just like clockwork, Montana’s junior senator, Steve Daines and representative Matt Rosendale, have repeated the timber industry propaganda on forest management at their recent Western Caucus roundtable in Bozeman, Montana. […]
BY EVAN STEWART – JAIME KUCINSKAS Image by Anupam Mahapatra. As the United States gets less religious, is it also getting more selfish? Historically, religious Americans have been civically engaged. Through churches and other faith-based organizations, congregants volunteer, […]