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…
The Threat Is Backwards
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: A Declaration for the Republic at 250 Years
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…
Congress Is Preparing to Surrender American Sovereignty on the Eve of America’s 250th Anniversary
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…
The American Way of War, War, War
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,…
Congress Quietly Moves to Merge U.S. and Israeli Militaries
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…