The Instinctive Distrust of Big Media
Anyone in journalism who wants to regain that trust would do well to read American Dispatches and internalize the lessons that Robert Parry offers, writes Nat Parry.
How Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan Has Enabled China to Redefine the Rules of the Game
By Míng Jīnwéi (明金维) Editor’s Note: This article was distributed by a Chinese government accepted source, but we believe it is worthy of a wider audience because it provides documentation…
Three Lessons From Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan
By Huáyǔ Think Tank (华语智库) Editor’s Note: This article was distributed by a Chinese government accepted source, but we believe it is worthy of a wider audience because it provides…
The White House Will Approve New $1 Billion Weapons Transfer to Ukraine
The package likely includes long-range rockets and air defense ammunition.
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.
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)…
Ron Kovic: The Dark Irony of This Patriotic Orgy and the Celebration of War
Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic, author of “Born on the Fourth of July” and subject of Oliver Stone’s iconic Vietnam War film, will mark his 76 th birthday watching a…
NATO and a War Foretold
Instead of exploiting this crisis to expand even further, NATO should suspend all new or pending membership applications until the current crisis has been resolved.
NATO To Increase High-Readiness Forces To Over 300,000 Troops
By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced Monday that the alliance will increase its high-readiness force from 40,000 troops to over 300,000 as part of a plan…
The Fed’s Austerity Program to Reduce Wages
By Michael Hudson / CounterPunch The Federal Reserve Board’s ostensible policy aim is to manage the money supply and bank credit in a way that maintains price stability. That usually…
Katrina vanden Huevel: The Pentagon Gets More Money and Americans Pay the Price
What’s all this new defense spending for?
We’re Playing With Fire in Ukraine
Alfred McCoy takes you to a planet where things are only getting hotter in so many ways, not just nuclear.