Michael Brenner: Is America’s Destiny Manifest?
By Michael Brenner One of the GODFATHER’s most dramatic episodes is the ‘Day of the Long Knives.’ Michael executes a plan to liquidate all of the Corleone family’s enemies. Everybody…
The Nasty Voices in Our Heads
The Paranoid Nature of American Foreign and Domestic Policy.
The Enduring Tyranny of Oil
Michael Klare on war, inflation, geopolitical rivalry, and soaring world temperatures.
Patrick Lawrence: 21st Century Order
As a piece of the new world order that is under construction, Putin’s trip to Tehran last week was of singular importance.
What Does the Future Between the US and China Look Like?
As China ascends economically and politically, its struggle with the US has grown fiercer. Huang Renwei points out the inherent weakness of the US power structure and argues that, starting…
New Philippine President Seeks Complex Political Balance Between Washington and Beijing
The US is likely to dangle greater defence cooperation and capital, while China will pledge continued support for the Philippines’ infrastructure plans
“The American Production System”: The Rise and Fragmentation of a Manufacturing Empire
It can be said that since the 1960s, the U.S. government and elites have had a persistent manufacturing anxiety.
The Dangerous US Opposition to Eurasia Integration
Washington and its allies seek either to remain hegemonic and weaken China and Russia or to erect a new Iron Curtain around these two countries, writes Vijay Prashad. Both approaches…
US China Policy: A Perilous Arms Race Instead of Waging Critical Cooperation
By Ralph Nader Did the Biden officials know what they were doing when they announced a broad expansion of export controls on China? China is the world’s second-largest economy, which…
Hedges: NATO — The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet
The massive expansion of NATO, not only in Eastern and Central Europe but the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia, presages endless war and a potential nuclear holocaust.
The New Economy in China: The Past 20 Years and the Next 20 Years
"China's new economy is going through a critical transition period, and in the past two years, as VCs, our perceptions of industries, companies, technologies and investment logic have undergone a…
China’s Red Lines on Taiwan Are Clear Regardless of the US’ Policy of Strategic Ambiguity
In spite of Biden’s reiteration afterwards of US adherence to the “one China” policy, his apparent gaffe – the third in nine months – would seem to signal a burgeoning…
America’s $1.4 Trillion ‘National Security’ Budget Makes Us Ever Less Safe
By William D. Hartung / TomDispatch William Hartung, Call It the National (In)security Budget Yes, Afghanistan went down the drain and Washington’s global war on terror ended (more or less)…
Ralph Nader: How Can Dictators Control So Many Millions of People?
By Ralph Nader How do dictators manage for decades to control 1.4 billion (China) or 146 million (Russia) people and on down to other smaller totalitarian regimes? Answer: one power…
Who Is to Blame for Inflation? The Power Brokers of Capitalism
A half-century long power play, led by corporations, Wall Street, governments, and central banks, has gone badly wrong.