The Emergence of a New Non-Alignment
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A new mood of defiance in the Global South…
Americans in Pain
Confronting the Phantom Limbs of America’s Foreign Wars.
Ralph Nader: Reverse the Accelerating Warfare State Before It’s Too Late!
Tell elected officials to stop the arms race and pursue arms control treaties before autonomous weapons of mass destruction and miscalculations lead to World War III – the final world…
If You Wish Someone a Happy Memorial Day, You Fail to Understand Its True Meaning
The mythology perpetuated at Memorial Day benefits no one save the militarists and war profiteers.
Patrick Lawrence: Farewell to the Welfare State? Not Just Yet.
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Maybe you recall all the post–Cold War talk of a “peace dividend” and maybe you don’t: It depends on when you took up…
Matt Taibbi: Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know
The citizen's starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel.
War for Profit: A Very Short History
As they did over a century ago ahead of World War I, the Merchants of Death thrive behind a veil of duplicity and slick media campaigns.
The Twenty-First Century of (Profitable) War
Not your grandfather’s military-industrial complex.
Chris Hedges: The Enemy From Within
The war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars…
War, What Is It Good For?
The American experience of war since 1945 should have offered an all-too-obvious lesson for us, as well as for the planet’s other great powers, when it comes to the value…
Leaked Docs: Ukraine Planned Attacks on Russian Forces in Syria
The Ukrainian defense officials believed they could use Kurdish forces to wage a proxy war against Russia in Syria.
Here Come the Militarized Robots (But There Go Our Civil Liberties)
Domestic uses of robotic dogs are fundamentally dehumanizing and would further suggest that they contribute strongly to the militarization of culture and strengthening the power of the surveillance state.
How NATO States Sponsored ICC Prosecutor’s Putin Arrest Warrant
ICC prosecutor general Karim Khan raised millions from NATO states by crafting an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin while freezing investigations into well-documented US and Israeli war crimes. Along the…
US Arms Industry Planning First Taiwan Trip in Four Years
When asked about the prospect of US companies jointly producing arms with Taiwan, a Biden administration official expressed support for the idea.
Daniel Ellsberg Has Foiled Those Who Want Him Confined to the Past
By Norman Solomon / CounterPunch In just a few words — “those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” — George…