The US And The CPC: A Tale Of Two Anniversaries
Carlos Martinez, Orinoco Tribune. Marking milestones in the histories of China and the United States. This week offers a chance to examine two very different visions of the international order.…
Tech Oligarchs Are Helping DHS Set Up Authoritarian Surveillance State, Report Says
Maurizio Guerrero Prism Abetted by surveillance tools created by a power-hungry tech oligarchy, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is laying the groundwork for an authoritarian state that is dismantling…
US at 250: A Time To Return To The Founders’ Wisdom
Jeffrey D. Sachs China Daily On Saturday, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence. The occasion deserves reflection — not only on what the…
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Francesca Albanese: “The World Is Not Sleeping—It Is Looking Away”
In When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine, the UN Special Rapporteur speaks with Chris Hedges about Gaza, international law, media complicity, and why she believes silence…
Former CIA Analyst: Trump’s Iran Deal Was a Surrender—Now Washington Wants to Rewrite It
Joshua Scheer As Washington celebrates America’s 250th anniversary, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson argues that the real story is unfolding thousands of miles away in the Persian Gulf. In this…
Most Empires In History Fell By Age 250
Rory Fanning, Truthout. The US Is at a Weighty Crossroads. It’s far past time to bring an end to US militarism. As a veteran of the U.S. war on Afghanistan,…
A 250-Year-Old-Death Machine Is Nothing To Celebrate
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Millions of Americans will today celebrate 250 years since the United States declared independence from the British crown. But what is there to celebrate? The…
From Vietnam to Today: Ron Kovic on War, Peace and Never Giving Up
Joshua Scheer More than fifty-five years after they first met during an anti-Vietnam War march in Los Angeles, Robert Scheer and Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic reunite for a deeply personal…
Requiem for America on the Fourth of July
Chris Hedges ScheerPost Neoliberalism, better understood by its less sanitized term cutthroat capitalism, is the poison that destroyed our democracy. It gave the billionaire class and corporations the ideological cover…
More U.S. Troops Are Refusing to Fight—and Reviving a Tradition of Patriotic Dissent
Joshua Scheer As Americans mark the Fourth of July with official celebrations of military power and national triumph, another vision of patriotism is emerging from those who have worn the…
Gerald Horne On The Real Story Of American Independence
Elias Isquith, Black Agenda Report. White supremacy and slavery. It’s time to revisit America’s heroic creation myth and what really happened in 1776, author-historian tells Salon. With a sweeping and…
America at 250: Rethinking Independence and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Joshua Scheer As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, politicians from across the political spectrum are invoking the familiar language of freedom, democracy and…
At 250, American Democracy is Under Siege
Mitchell Zimmerman Otherwords This Fourth of July marks the 250th birthday of a new kind of nation state — based not on ancestral ties to a land or on the…
Weaponizing Civil Death to Crush Dissidents (w/ Hüseyin Doğru) | The Chris Hedges Report
The sanctioning of German journalist Hüseyin Dogru establishes a new precedent in the West’s repression of anti-imperialist speech. Chris Hedges The war on information in the West has tread new…
War Crimes, War Powers and American Sovereignty: The USA + Israel = The Department of Forever War
From war crimes and genocide abroad to moral, constitutional, and debt crises at home: Why Congress must reject the NDAA’s U.S.-Israel military and intelligence merger Dennis Kucinich Against the horrific…