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Edward Curtin Years ago when I was twenty-seven years-old and my father fifty-eight, we wandered around an off-beat section of a small New England town. There was a section where…
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Starve, Strangle, Invade: How Washington’s Siege of Cuba Is Pushing a Nation to the Brink
Medea Benjamin warns that a decades-long economic war against Cuba has escalated into what she calls a “medieval siege,” as fuel shortages cripple hospitals, food systems and daily life while…
The AI Cartel: How Washington Is Building a Surveillance State Without Calling It One
A new executive order claims it is not creating an AI licensing regime. Jeffrey Wernick argues that’s precisely what makes it so dangerous. Jeffrey Wernick The most effective systems of…
Fuhrman Left His Mark on Media
Ari Paul for FAIR The racism of Mark Fuhrman, the Los Angeles police detective whose involvement in the O.J. Simpson murder investigation helped sink the prosecution’s case, was so well-known…
EU Imperialism Rising After Hungarian Coup
Kit Klarenberg Substack On April 12th, a political earthquake in Hungary upended 16 years of continuous rule by Viktor Orban. It was a period characterised by ever-mounting and fractious confrontation…
Despite Climate Policy Setbacks, a Just Transition Is Still Within Reach
By C.J. Polychroniou This article was originally published by Truthout Many US states have the ability to implement climate stabilization programs and become carbon-neutral by 2050. The evidence for rapid…
Iran Accuses Europe of ‘Appeasing Aggressors’ as Trump Launches New Military Attacks
Jake Johnson for Common Dreams Iran’s government on Monday condemned the European Union’s response to Iranian attacks on US military installations in the Middle East as “a masterclass in selective…
AIPAC ‘Hides’ Support For Democratic Candidates
News Desk, The Cradle. Support for Israel now viewed as ‘toxic’. Only 13 percent of Democratic voters in the US view Israel favorably, making support from the lobbying group AIPAC…
Trump Admin Uses Iran War Oil Shock to Push Drilling in Alaskan Wilderness
By Michael Arria This article was originally published by Truthout The five-year plan is expected to cause 4,000 additional oil spills and the destruction of fragile ecosystems. The Trump administration…
Israeli Claims About An Iran ‘Threat’ Were Always A Lie. Now We Have Proof
Jonathan Cook Substack Could it be that Israel’s 30-year narrative about Iran – one that persuaded US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of aggression –…
Can the Imperial Core Be Reformed? Chris Hedges and Aaron Maté on the Collapse of the Global Order
Joshua Scheer At the Vancouver Web Summit, Chris Hedges and Aaron Maté examine Gaza, the erosion of international law, AI-powered warfare, media censorship, and whether meaningful reform is still possible…
“Our Hands Are Dirty”: Jeffrey Wernick on America’s Founding Principles, Foreign Entanglements and the Moral Cost of Empire
Invoking George Washington, John Quincy Adams and the American abolitionist tradition, Jeffrey Wernick argues that permanent foreign attachments and endless war have pushed the United States far from the values…
With Iran Deal in Limbo, Do US War Crimes Doom the World to Endless War?
Medea Benjamin and Nicholas J.S. Davies Iran rejected President Trump’s latest fake peace deal, confirming that he had misrepresented what Iran had agreed to and that the two sides are…
Lawrence Wilkerson: America Is Failing to Adjust to a Multipolar World
ScheerPost Staff Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson delivers a stark warning about a world he believes is rapidly slipping beyond Washington’s control. In a sweeping conversation with Glenn Diesen, Wilkerson argues…
Business Motives Don’t Explain The Right-Wing Turn Of The Washington Post and CBS. Billionaire Ideology Does
Adam Johnson for TRNN Amazon founder and Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos made news earlier this week by claiming the reason he fired 30 percent of the Washington Post’s staff and…