The American Military’s Africa Gambit
America's faux intellectuals and their false assumptions strike again, this time via a "Foreign Affairs" piece by a multigenerational military trio of facsimile David Petraeuses peddling un-ironic Rudyard Kipling reprises.
Chris Hedges: Bandaging the Corpse
Biden's bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America's death spiral.
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Larry Gross: Israel Has Always Been a Contradiction
The Communications professor, who grew up in Israel shortly after it was founded, talks about the racism he witnessed in the young nation long before it occupied the West Bank…
Rethinking Employment in the Biden-Harris Era
In America, when you work, with rare exceptions, someone is always making money off you — often to your detriment, often to your bitter disappointment and pain.
With a Second War on Terror Looming, ‘The Mauritanian’ Explores the First
Imprisoned without charges for fourteen years in Guantánamo, Mohamedou Slahi is a symbol of humans' impulse to abuse power and their capacity for redemption.
Fighting the Rise in Attacks Against Transgender People’s Rights
We must stop the attack on transgender people in the United States before it is allowed to escalate further.
A Cold War With China Is the Last Thing We Can Afford Right Now
By Mandy Smithberger / TomDispatch This country is in a crisis of the first order. More than half a million of us have died thanks to Covid-19. Food insecurity is…
Amelia Pang on the Human Cost of America’s Addiction to Cheap Goods
The investigative journalist joins Robert Scheer to discuss the story of a Chinese prisoner at the heart of her gripping new book, “Made in China.”
‘Scheer Intelligence’ Nabs 4 NAEJ Nominations
“Scheer Intelligence,” the weekly award-winning podcast hosted by legendary journalist Robert Scheer and executive produced by Joshua Scheer, has been nominated for 4 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. The…
Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment?
Faced with the dire Covid-19 crisis, some lawmakers are starting to see publicly-owned banks as the key to ensuring an equitable economic recovery.
Is Harvard Denying Cornel West Tenure Over His Palestine Views?
"I would bear any burden or pay any cost in order to stay in contact with the precious humanity of any oppressed people," says the eminent Black philosopher.
Chris Hedges: The Age of Social Murder
The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.
This Country Constantly Fails Its Most Vulnerable
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has tested the nation’s threadbare social safety net as never before.
All Risk, No Reward: The Perils and Absurdity of Iraq War 4.0
The muddled US military mission and ongoing troop presence creates nearly all the conditions for the latest crisis.
Lee Camp: It’s Time for Major Wealth Redistribution — Yes, I Mean It.
No need to be all apologetic about it, either, since we would just be reclaiming the trillions taken by the billionaires.