BY STEVEN HIGGS Photograph Source: Stickman42 – CC BY-SA 4.0 News that the Herald-Times newspaper building was going on the auction block didn’t exactly land here in Bloomington, Indiana. like a blinding left hook. The end of a 61-year […]
BY DAVE LINDORFF Salman Rushdie having a discussion with Emory University students. CC BY-SA 2.5 Author Salman Rushdie, 75, one of Britain’s most acclaimed contemporary authors, was gravely wounded at he Chautauqua Insitute in upstate New York […]
BY ANDREA MAZZARINO Army Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division, boards a C-17 aircraft at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2021. Photo: US Army, Master Sgt. […]
BY MEL GURTOV Image by Max Bender. The Politics of Russia’s Energy Exports It won’t be long before winter descends on Europe. Before it does, most European countries must address the question of how long and how […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG “The End of the Road.” Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. With far-right kooks in GOP-controlled state legislatures backing drastic electoral alterations, we could have a real mess come November. The goal, in states like […]
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Matt Palmer. Could somebody please get an extension ladder to help Senator Schumer down from the ceiling? He’s stuck in the rafters in a high-pitched note of self-congratulation whilst spraining his elbow […]
BY RICHARD E. RUBENSTEIN Photo by Colin Lloyd For some time, people who analyze social conflicts have been watching the growth of political and cultural polarization in the U.S. with more than a little trepidation. At present, […]
BY RICHARD FALK Photograph Source: George R. Caron – Public Domain 77 Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace activists around the world often choose August 6th and 9th each year to grieve anew the human suffering and devastation […]
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Explosions following Israeli missile strikes on Gaza, August 6, 2022. The bombing of Gaza has become ritualized. Israel no longer even feels compelled to offer much of a rationale. Gaza is bombed […]
By Ilan Pappe The last Israeli brutal assault on the Gaza Strip exposed once more the hypocritical and immoral response of the West to the ongoing genocidal policies of Israel in the occupied territories. The continuation […]