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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Jeffrey Wernick There is a phrase that does a great deal of work in American political argument, and almost none of it honest. The phrase is American culture, invoked as…
An American Anthem: Beware The Impostures of Pretended Patriotism Ron Kovic, Author of “Born on the Fourth of July” For Alex Pretti and Renee Good “You can cut all the…
Dennis Kucinich and Elizabeth Kucinich Take Action to Defeat a Dangerous Expansion of the National Security State, Military Power Over Civilian Government, Foreign Policy Entrenchment, and the Erosion of Constitutional…
Tom Engelhardt That title of mine is certainly repetitive of me (me, me), but how can you not be repetitive in the distinctly repeated world of Donald J. Trump (Trumped,…
Joshua Scheer As public support for Israel continues to erode amid the wars in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, a little-noticed provision buried inside the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act could…
Anna Maria Barry-Jester ProPublica After the Trump administration upended the world’s largest foreign aid provider last year, terminating thousands of programs and firing nearly all of its staff, its plan…
Nate Bear for Do Not Panic This will be looked back on as the year in which American power, hard and soft, entered into accelerated collapse. The World Cup is,…
Joshua Scheer For weeks, the world stood on the edge of a wider regional war as the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, threatening to ignite a conflict…
Arnold Oliver for Informed Comment Odds are good that no one has ever asked if you are an internationalist, but your answer to that question reveals much about your orientation…
