Foreign Correspondent: Michael Flynn’s Forgotten Turkish Connection
Before Russiagate, the former national security advisor was an operative for Turkey, tilting foreign policy against the Kurds.
U.S. Regional Imperialism: Big Sticks, and Even Bigger Guns
Our history in Latin America is marked by arrogance and aggression. Is what's happening in Venezuela any different?
So Long to American Exceptionalism
in Donald Trump’s America, we’re inside the community of nations in a grim new way: as fellow patients, grievers, and supplicants in search of food and shelter, along with so…
Plague Journal #9: Follow the Money, Discover the Stench
There is talk – just talk so far – about cancelling some of the massive, totally unnecessary death culture abundance. But just how much we even spend on it is…
Why California Needs an Innocence Commission
To a large degree, DNA testing has proven that this criminal justice system is not as just as it claims to be. Throughout the history of this country, black people…
High Stakes Gambling on Biden’s Foreign Policy
In the midst of what’s become a sort of progressive civil war over “lesser evil” voting in November, here’s a different look at Uncle Joe: Biden on war.
In the Classroom that Zoom Built
Consider the deep 'missingness' that teacher Belle Chesler has found in a public-school world that has collapsed into a Zoom heap amid the deep inequality and unfairness of a system…
Celebrated to Death: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan
Former infantry officer and Army Ranger Erik Edstrom, author of a new book on the U.S. war in Afghanistan, has had time to reconsider his own combat experience there. He…
Foreign Correspondent: Biden vs. Trump on Foreign Policy
We all know that Trump’s foreign policy has been a disaster. But is Joe Biden’s any better?
The White Lobby: When the U.S. Was the Sanctions-Buster Extraordinaire
Those defending sanctions on Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, et. al. have - in particular - peddled in acute hypocrisy. This piece complicates and challenges arguments on both sides (to some degree)…
Plague Journal #8: Medicare Mills and Nursing Home Nightmares
This week Cuomo, in an aside during his daily, nationally televised press briefing , made a memorable understatement. “Now is not the best time to put your mother in a…
Life on Lockdown
The coronavirus pandemic that has spread across this world has made the experience of having to live on lockdown against one's will a reality for all people who certainly never…
Coronavirus: Scientific Realities vs. Economic Fallacies
Why do we live in a social and economic system that can only exist in a state of frantic movement forward and up, and for which it is impossible to…
Ann Jones: Getting Trumped by Covid-19
As the coronavirus runs wild in Donald Trump’s America, veteran journalist and humanitarian Ann Jones offered a vivid analysis of how two countries, Norway and the U.S., dealt with it…
Ellen Brown: Crushing the States, Saving the Banks: the Fed’s Generous New Rules
It has long been a goal of conservatives to privatize public pensions, forcing seniors into the riskier stock market. Lured in by market booms, their savings can then be raided…