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…
Chris Hedges on acTVism Munich: Biden vs. Trump, Bernie Sanders, Corporate Media, Assange & the State of the Left
In conversation with host Zain Raza of acTVism Munich, Hedges discusses his past work as a foreign correspondent with the New York Times and why he chose to quit. In…
These Untied States: Robert Scheer on ‘Fortress on the Hill’ Podcast (pt. 2)
In this portion of the pod we talk the Sanders-Biden endorsement, the future of Bernie’s movement, third parties, surveillance/social control, Eugene Debs, the future of journalism, and much much more.
[rewind] Will Evans: Elon Musk Is Gaslighting America
The award-winning journalist who exposed Tesla's flagrant labor violations reflects on having his work dismissed as "disinformation."
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…
Maj. Danny: America’s Libyan Detritus: The One Time Trump Was Right – It Was All Obama’s Fault
Nine years on – and one pandemic later – the Libyan 'shit show,' has gone full mercenary … and few notice.
Andrew Bacevich: A Greatest Generation We Are Not
We’re two decades into a new century, one in which the U.S. has been fighting a series of wars that won’t end and in which this country has only recently…
Netanyahu Uses Apparently Faked Docs to Push US Toward War with Iran
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli fabrication designed to trigger US military conflict with Iran.
New Fauci Interview: No Scientific Evidence the Virus Linked to China Lab
In an exclusive deep-dive interview with National Geographic published Monday, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases “shot down the discussion that has been raging…