Fundamentalist Pandemics
A Tomgram: Juan Cole, Iran and the U.S., an irony of curious affinity.
FOH 64: Dunbar-Ortiz on the Pandemic’s Impact on Native Americans
Legendary activist and author of "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" also discusses the connections between the Second Amendment, white supremacy and settler colonialism.
[Excerpt] ‘Bernie’s Brooklyn: How Growing Up in the New Deal City Shaped Bernie Sanders’ Politics’
Far from being totally alien to the American way, the sort of socialism Bernie advocates was commonplace where he grew up.
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?
The End of Privacy?
FROM CNN: It took the attacks of September 11, 2001 to shove aside the previous decade’s phobia of mass surveillance, and usher in an era where many of us imagined…
What Impact Has Coronavirus Had on Policing?
Reposted with permission of the Real News Network
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…
Seven Ways Trump’s Mendacity Surrendered Nation to Covid-19
Many Americans believe that Trump ignored the COVID-19 virus until too late. There has, however, been no systematic analysis of how Trump’s denials and related delay injured our country’s response.…
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…
Pulitzer Committee Favors U.S. Empire Stories Amid Charge of ‘Scoop’ Stealing
The New York Times has apparently stolen its Pultizer-Prize-winning stories from Russian journalists -- the same ones it has lionized
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…
Nomi Prins: Big Banks Got the Sweetest Deal from the Covid-19 Bailouts
The banking expert explains why Congress’ stimulus bill has been a boon for Wall Street and not the small businesses that need it most.
The Truth About the ‘War of 1812’
A survey of one of only 5 "declared" wars in U.S. history, the "war of 1812," concentrating on why it was significant especially to American political party history, and relations…
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.