Patrick Lawrence: The Return of Non-Alignment
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The Ukraine conflict as catalyst: I wonder how many people who pay attention understood a year ago that Russia’s intervention and the West’s…
At the Brink of War in the Pacific
For nearly a year now, President Joe Biden has been trying to resolve the underlying ambiguity in previous U.S. policy toward that island by stating repeatedly that he would indeed…
Matt Taibbi: Twitter Files—GEC, New Knowledge, and State-Sponsored Blacklists
Americans have been paying taxes to disenfranchise themselves, as government agencies and subcontractors undertake a massive digital blacklisting project.
Sy Hersh: US Bombed Nord Stream to Prolong Ukraine Proxy War
Seymour Hersh joins Aaron Maté to discuss his report on how the Biden administration bombed the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which blew up not only a vital Russian-German infrastructure project…
Scott Ritter: Reimagining Arms Control Under Ukraine
Having used arms control to gain unilateral advantage over Russia, the cost to the U.S. and NATO in getting Moscow back to the negotiating table will be high.
Sensitivity Rewrites: The Cultural Purging of Roald Dahl
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch Censorship is never innocent, made worse for its strained good intentions. For those responsible for setting and policing such policies, the inner judge comes out,…
Is Inflation Out of Control, Again?
By Dean Baker / Beat the Press (CEPR) The January data on consumer expenditures released yesterday had a lot of people freaking out. The story is that the Fed is…
House Overwhelmingly Approves Resolution to Maintain Syria Sanctions After Earthquake
Only Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) voted against the resolution.
Western Leaders Privately Say Ukraine Can’t Win the War
The German and French leaders have told Ukraine they must seek peace with Russia in exchange for a post-war defense pact, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
Why Much of the Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting the West in Ukraine
By Krishen Mehta / CounterPunch In October 2022, about eight months after the war in Ukraine started, the University of Cambridge in the UK harmonized surveys conducted in 137 countries…
‘Argentina, 1985’ Is a Political Tale for Our Time
Argentina’s nominee for Best Foreign Film offers an urgent warning to democracies in Latin America and across the West.
West Is Out of Touch With Rest of World Politically, EU-Funded Study Admits
A study by the elite EU-funded European Council on Foreign Relations found the West is out of touch politically with the rest of the world. Most people in China, India,…
Arkansas’s Anti-BDS Law Remains in Effect Because SCOTUS Refused to Review It
Politically motivated consumer boycotts have played a central role throughout U.S. history.
Welcome to the Predator State, Where the Scorpions on the Corner Just Might Kill You
With the police ever better funded (just as the U.S. military is), war has come home to roost in our streets, no less disastrously than it did abroad in the…
Caitlin Johnstone: There Has Never In History Been A Greater Need For A Large Anti-War Movement
By Caitlin Johnstone / Substack Things are escalating more and more rapidly between the US-centralized power structure and the few remaining nations with the will and the means to stand…