The Prankster Stops Laughing
BY FRED GARDNER Roger Stone making the V sign after his arrest and indictment, on January 25, 2019. (Source: The Circus, Showtime.) Roger Stone played a key role in blocking the recount of votes in Florida […]
Happy July Farce: An American Revolution Would be a Good Idea
BY PAUL STREETl Image by Vlad Tchompalov. “Read a book, you might learn something.” – New Left historian Carl Parrini to a generation of students at Northern Illinois University “Fuck your fireworks, fuck your Court, fuck its […]
The United States Contests the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative with a Private Corporation
BY VIJAY PRASHAD Yangshan Port of Shanghai, China. Photograph Source: Wikipedia – Public Domain At the G7 Summit in Germany, on June 26, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden made a pledge to raise $200 billion within the United […]
The Mass Ethnic Cleansing of Syrian Kurds is Collateral Damage From the War in Ukraine
BY PATRICK COCKBURNl Photograph Source: DAVID HOLT from London, England – CC BY 2.0 Kurds are suffering the greatest collateral damage form the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian refugees attract global attention, but the Ukraine war has opened the door […]
US Marine Press Takes on Hothouse Earth
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Levi Meir Clancy. America loves its military. It should because it’s the most expensive defense force of all time. $778B was allocated for defense spending in 2022. China comes in a distant […]
Abolish the CIA
BY EVE OTTENBERG Richard Helms in the White House Cabinet Room, March 27, 1968. Photo: White House. Just about every lousy U.S. foreign policy escapade from the 1950s to the late ‘70s traces back to the […]
In Deep Water: Shipping in the Global Economy
BY JOSEPH GROSSO Ultrabulk cargo ship, Astoria, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. It is perhaps a wonder that it was not until experiencing the fallout from a global pandemic, that most Americans were forced to read […]
RIMPAC Naval Exercises, the Philippines and War on China
BY VICTOR GREGOR LIMON – SEIJI YAMADA The United Kingdom’s carrier strike group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth, and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces led by Hyuga-class helicopter destroyer JS Ise joined with U.S. Navy carrier strike […]
Colombia, Once a Pro-U.S. Conservative Bastion, Turns Left
BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Gustavo Petro on election night in Colombia. Source: Democracy Now! For the first time ever, Colombia has chosen new leadership that is not conservative. Voters in the third-most populous nation in Latin America narrowly […]
Does the Amazon Now Have a Shot at Survival?
BY SAM PIZZIGATIl Photograph Source: Amazon rainforest – CC BY-SA 4.0 The Amazon rainforest, our scientists tell us, essentially works as our world’s lungs. If those Amazonian lungs ever stop breathing, so will we. This simple relationship […]