Ten years ago, a hawker in Tunisia set himself on fire, which spurred on people along the entire Mediterranean Sea—from Morocco to Spain—to rise up in revolt. They took to their squares indignant at the terrible conditions in which...
US trade, legislative and propaganda war rage against China.
Will it turn hot after hawkish interventionists infesting the Biden/Harris regime’s national security team take over in January?
Is what’s unthinkable possible? What’s gone on since the Obama/Biden regime’s 2013 Asia pivot,...
Even before taking office, Jo Biden, the new American president, has announced a rescue package of $1.9 trillion, of which as much as $1 trillion will be in the form simply of transfers to the working people. Since the...
Jonathan Cook
At birth, all of us begin a journey that offers opportunities either to grow – not just physically, but mentally, emotionally and spiritually – or to stagnate. The journey we undertake lasts a lifetime, but there are dozens...
by Kathy Kelly
People in the United States continue to pretend that the despair and futility we’ve caused isn’t our fault.
Late last week, I learned from young Afghan Peace Volunteer friends in Kabul that an insurgent group firing rockets into...
Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain
The Orbánization of Fascist Politics, illiberal democracy, and White Replacement theory
The malicious passions of fascism are with us once again, evident in the emergence of diverse regimes of predatory repression and...
Recently the world witnessed an embrace between the Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, 40, and the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), 35, on 5 January 2021 when the former arrived to attend the...
The papers are full of suggestions on what US President Joe Biden should do about his country’s seemingly perennial involvement in Afghanistan. None are particularly useful, in that they ignore the central premise that a nation state long mauled,...
James Bovard
Americans are sickened of an “idealism that is oblique, confusing, dishonest, and ferocious,” as H.L. Mencken wrote a hundred years ago. Though Mencken was condemning President Woodrow Wilson, the same verdict could characterize the legacy of former president...
US President Joe Biden (R) called Afghanistan President Ghani to assure US will defend his government, July 23, 2021
If only America’s presidents exercised the option to do muscle-flexing in the White House gym, the world would have been a...
