How Awesome is ‘Awesome’? America’s Underperforming Military
By Andrew Bacevich / TomDispatch Professional sports is a cutthroat business. Succeed and the people running the show reap rich rewards. Fail to meet expectations and you get handed your…
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Aaron Maté: New Indictments Expose Democrats’ Russiagate Obsession as a Historic Hoax
The Canadian journalist joins Robert Scheer to discuss the damning new Justice Department evidence that the Hillary Clinton campaign conspired to finance and promote the totally fraudulent “Steele Dossier."
Welcome to the American Century
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch On February 17, 1941, less than 10 months before the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor and the U.S. found itself in a global war, Henry Luce,…
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Joseph Weisberg: Is America’s View of ‘Evil’ Russia Merely Projection?
On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," the former CIA officer and creator of the TV show “The Americans” joins Robert Scheer to examine common misconceptions about the Cold War.
Is a Chinese Cold War Still Possible in an Overheating World?
Contrary to the Biden administration's predictions, by 2049 China is more likely to be a climate disaster zone than a military superpower.
Answering the Armies of the Cheated
Indispensable Nation Syndrome should certainly qualify as, at the very least, another Big Lie.
Lee Camp: America’s Impressive History of Bioweapons Attacks Against Its Own People
Forget China-bashing conspiracy theories, let's look at the fogging of SF, the microbial attack on the NYC subway and other unpleasantries perpetrated by the CIA and US military in our…
Liberal Media Propaganda Tells the World: America Is First
The arrogance of U.S. foreign policy is supported by the mainstream media, which echoes the message that we know what's best for the rest of the world.
The Myth of Winnable Nuclear War Is Having Another Moment
International activists are gearing up to push back on this deadly Reagan-era relic.
Sherry Buchanan:The Women Warriors Who Stopped the American War in Vietnam
The author of “On the Ho Chi Minh Trail,” discusses what she learned about the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese women who survived its frontlines.
We Should All Be Afraid of the New Cold War
2021 looks a lot like 1981—and that should scare us.
A Cold War With China Is the Last Thing We Can Afford Right Now
By Mandy Smithberger / TomDispatch This country is in a crisis of the first order. More than half a million of us have died thanks to Covid-19. Food insecurity is…
American Empire and the New Cold War
Wide-ranging discussion on evolving towards dissent, what’s cooking in recent foreign policy absurdity news …and also, well, life & love & loss, ultimately.
America’s Imperial Expenditures and Escapades Are Stranger Than Fiction
Who needs dystopian novelists or absurd satirists when otherwise banal bureaucrats of the U.S. national security state do the job for them? It’s an old story with a new tech-savvy…
Unraveling the U.S. Army’s Hot Take on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
The beauty of the dream Armenia-Azerbaijan battleground is it near perfectly fulfills the macabre fantasies of Cold War-nostalgic conventional army officers.