The Genocide Party Won And Apparently It’s A Victory For Progressives
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Today’s daily slop is the midterm US elections. I was reluctant to react, because, well, I didn’t want to bore myself, or you. Yet here…
Letters From The American Empire
Nick Estes, Counter Punch. In the opening pages of To You We Shall Return, Lakota storyteller Joseph Marshall describes a giant with an insatiable hunger. He consumed the earth and…
US Military Prepares For ‘Doomsday’ War On US Soil
News Desk, The Cradle. With 90-day survival plan. The Pentagon’s FORTRESS America plan calls for establishing nuclear reactors, reserves of fuel, equipment, critical munitions, and alternative supply chains for the…
Is The American Empire Going Broke? If So What Next?
Jack Rasmus, Counter Punch. There is increasing public discussion today, in the US and globally, about the trajectory of the American Empire. The discussion frequently cites the American Empire’s increasingly…
NAZA Is Not Just About Israel And Gaza. It’s About The Evil Lurking In Us All
Jonathan Cook Substack I have just seen NAZA, a documentary in which 24 Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers are filmed explaining how, over the past three years, they went about…
Marco Rubio Delivers a Scathing Indictment of the Administration in Which He Serves
Austin Sarat ScheerPost On October 7, Secretary of State Marco Rubio used the occasion of a visit to Greece to deliver an elaborately staged speech about the virtues of and…
The Use and Misuse of Empathy, From Gaza to Ireland
Hugh J. Curran Informed Comment David Hume, the 18th century Scottish philosopher and his friend, the Scottish economist, Adam Smith, author of the “Wealth of Nations”, wrote extensively on the…
Naming Killing Machines After Native American Tribes Is Degeneracy
Nate Bear Do Not Panic I wrote an off-hand tweet the other day and it did not go down well with MAGA chuds or imperialist liberals. Which tells me it…
Trump’s Genocidal Rhetoric on Iran Deserves Legal Consequences, Scholars Say
By Kourosh Ziabari This article was originally published by Truthout As Trump repeats annihilation threats against Iran, legal scholars implore other countries to step in. US President Donald Trump’s threats…
Marco Rubio Declares West Must Dominate World
Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Praises colonialism, erases history. In a speech in Greece on “Western civilization”, Marco Rubio praised European colonialism, erased Native Americans, and declared the West must use…
Trump’s Unconscionable United Nations Rant
Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Donald Trump threatened Iran with annihilation from the seat of diplomacy on the East River Tuesday. And then dismissed the real threats of AI as a…
The National Security Exception Was Never Going to Stop at Prosecuting Muslims
For 25 years, the US ran a parallel legal system targeting Muslims. It now reaches activists, immigrants, and the left. By Sufia Khalid This article was originally published by Truthout…
Covert Pentagon Propagandists Are Tracking Anti-War Americans, Skirting The Law
Wyatt Reed The Grayzone When a semi-anonymous social media user declared that the federal government had targeted her in a bizarre entrapment scheme, the paranoid claim snowballed into a more…
Delcy Rodríguez Has A Gun Pointed At Her Head
Steve Ellner, Counter Punch. Does She have Options? Donald Trump’s success in wresting concessions from Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez is a clear demonstration of what can be achieved through…
Nicolás Maduro Is Not Guilty
Stephanie Weatherbee BritoandVijay Prashad Breakthrough News Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is not guilty. This is a statement of law and fact, since Maduro has not been convicted of any crime.…