Declassify the Documents From Trump’s Basement
By Leonard Goodman / Original to ScheerPost Whatever your feelings about former President Trump, there are reasons to be skeptical when government officials say it was necessary to raid his…
US Judge Says Billions in Seized Central Bank Funds Belong to Afghan People
The judge's report, said a Center for Constitutional Rights attorney, "provides some hope that the people of Afghanistan will have access to the resources they so desperately need."
The West’s Dangerously Simple-Minded Narrative About Russia and China
The overwrought fear of China and Russia is sold to a Western public through manipulation of the facts.
Customary Barbarity: Britain’s SAS in Afghanistan
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The insistence that there is a noble way of fighting war, one less bloody and brutal, has always been the hallmark of forces self-described as…
Abolish the CIA
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Just about every lousy U.S. foreign policy escapade from the 1950s to the late ‘70s traces back to the CIA. From the catastrophic1953 coup of…
Anti-NATO in Madrid
By Álvaro Orús Andreu / Pressenza Four days before the NATO summit in Madrid and by way of a “welcome”, the “Summit for Peace. NATO NO” prelude to the demonstration…
A Trail of Tears: How Veterans Return From America’s Wars
By Ann Jones / TomDispatch Best of TomDispatch: Ann Jones, War Wounds America’s Father’s Day was first celebrated on June 19, 1910, in Washington State. That was only a few…
‘Totally Unacceptable’: US Rejecting 90% of Afghans Seeking Asylum Under Humanitarian Program
"We don't feel safe," lamented one Afghan asylum-seeker whose brothers translated for U.S. invasion forces. "We don't know what will happen in an hour. We don't know what will happen…
Progressive Voices Demand Assange’s Release on Third Year of His Imprisonment
As the extradition to the United States looms large for the Wikileaks founder, progressive figures, movements and supporters have renewed calls for his release.
Ukraine: War and the Challenge of Human Rights in the U.S. and Beyond
The U.S. justifies wars of aggression in the name of human rights. The term has no meaning domestically either, as the people's needs are subordinated to those of the ruling…
From Moscow to Washington, the Barbarism and Hypocrisy Don’t Justify Each Other
U.S. hypocrisy in no way excuses the murderous rampage of Russia’s war on Ukraine, but hopping on a bandwagon of the U.S. government as a force for peace is a…
Censorship in America
Questioning the dominant narrative in America receives repercussions.
The Antiwar Movement That Wasn’t Enough
While so many Americans ignored our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq along with the global war on terror more generally, a surprising number of American vets (and sometimes even active-duty…
ACLU Demands ‘Truly Systemic Overhaul’ of U.S. Civilian Harm Policies
By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams After the Pentagon chief moved to improve how the U.S. mitigates and responds to civilian harm, the ACLU on Thursday urged more sweeping action…