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.
NPR Distorts History of US Invasion of Afghanistan
By Bryce Greene / FAIR In the first part of a series of reports on Afghanistan, NPR host Steve Inskeep (Morning Edition, 8/5/22) interviewed current Afghan Defense Minister Mohammad Yaqoob…
Patrick Lawrence: The Causes of Things
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Casus belli Over a summer sup on the back lawn the other night, a Times-reading, MSNBC–watching, NPR–listening neighbor asked what I thought she…
The Breakdown of Legitimacy: A Good and Necessary Thing
By Gary Leupp / CounterPunch Last December Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the Supreme Court would retain its legitimacy if it overturned Roe v. Wade. “Will this institution…
John Kiriakou: Hold the Fireworks
From the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe v. Wade to the persecution of whistleblowers, this July 4th exploded with reasons not to celebrate.
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…
Russian Exiles
By Monika Zgustova / CounterPunch A century ago, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War that followed it generated a vast wave of Russian exiles: it is estimated…
There Are Better Ways for Societies to Address Inflation Than By Hiking Interest Rates
By Richard D. Wolff / Economy for All A deafening silence defines “debates” among U.S. leaders about stopping or slowing today’s inflation. Alternatives to the Federal Reserve’s raising of interest…
Katrina vanden Heuvel on Russia, Ukraine, the War and the US
David Barsamian interviews Katrina vanden Heuvel about current issues in the world and history.
Joint Russia-China Statement Articulates United Opposition to Western Alliance
Their joint statement is a historic articulation of the major shift underway from the unipolar world that has existed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Holding Trump and His Rioters Accountable Can — and Must — Be Done Constitutionally
Reconciliation that is an echo of the appeasement that doomed Reconstruction is unacceptable, but so is allowing social media corporations to determine what speech is allowed in the what amounts…
Will Biden Channel Franklin Roosevelt?
The incoming president would do well to study and emulate FDR's bold leadership on the same issues of spiraling inequity the country faces again.
White Supremacy Is Only Plausible Explanation for 2020 Election Results
Voter polling on racism and Black Lives Matter show it was the biggest factor in Republican victories across the country.
Trump Gets History About as Much as He Understands Epidemics
Having crashed the economy and polished off tens of thousands of Americans with his irrational policies, Trump is now coming for American history.
On Contact: Hedges and Maj. Danny Discuss New Investigation of Patriotism
Sjursen's latest book asks whether there is a proper space for patriotism that renounces entitled exceptionalism and narcissistic jingoism.