By VT By Nauman Sadiq for VT Islamabad Five years following a potentially catastrophic incident that could’ve inundated Islamic State’s former capital Raqqa and many towns downstream Euphrates River in eastern Syria and caused more deaths […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Matt Johnson – CC BY 2.0 The militarization of American foreign policy has evolved over the past thirty years. Ironically, this took place in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet […]
BY VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Gustavo Montes de Oca – CC BY 2.0 On January 11, 2022, the United Nations (UN) Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths appealed to the international community to help raise $4.4 billion for […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Todd Huffman – CC BY 2.0 On 26 August last year a former engineering student named Abdul Rahman al-Logari, wearing a vest containing 25lb of explosives, was about to be searched by […]
BY DEAN BAKER We would probably think it is, if we relied on CNN and other such sources, but in good old reality land, that’s a hard story to tell. Anyhow, as some of us tried […]
BY STEPHEN F. EISENMAN Jules Grandjouan, “A Dream of the Vivisector,” L’Assiette au Beurre, July 1, 1911. Photo: The Author. The Challenge of Omicron The appearance in November 2021 of the Omicron variant of COVID 19 […]
BY DAVID MASCIOTRA Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “The bottom of the Empire,” was Reverend Jesse Jackson’s description of who Martin Luther King was seeking to serve with his politically revolutionary ministry of the 1960s. Jackson […]
BY DIEGO VON VACANO “A revolutionary is nowhere a foreigner and is a patriot everywhere.” This is what Osvaldo “Chato” Peredo, one of the great figures of Bolivian history taught us. One year after the death […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Brian Stansberry – CC BY 3.0 As the West worked itself into a lather in the last month over Russia moving its troops within its own borders, one GOP senator, Roger Wicker […]
BY PETER BERGEL Photograph Source: Hajime NAKANO – CC BY 2.0 On January 3rd of this year, the five nuclear-armed states with the largest nuclear arsenals issued a joint statement declaring that they “consider the avoidance of war between […]