Fundamentalist Pandemics
A Tomgram: Juan Cole, Iran and the U.S., an irony of curious affinity.
Foreign Correspondent: Michael Flynn’s Forgotten Turkish Connection
Before Russiagate, the former national security advisor was an operative for Turkey, tilting foreign policy against the Kurds.
So Long to American Exceptionalism
in Donald Trump’s America, we’re inside the community of nations in a grim new way: as fellow patients, grievers, and supplicants in search of food and shelter, along with so…
Seven Ways Trump’s Mendacity Surrendered Nation to Covid-19
Many Americans believe that Trump ignored the COVID-19 virus until too late. There has, however, been no systematic analysis of how Trump’s denials and related delay injured our country’s response.…
High Stakes Gambling on Biden’s Foreign Policy
In the midst of what’s become a sort of progressive civil war over “lesser evil” voting in November, here’s a different look at Uncle Joe: Biden on war.
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Dr. Margaret Flowers: Does Medicare for All Await Us at the End of This Viral Massacre?
The Popular Resistance co-founder predicts how the coronavirus pandemic will impact the ongoing struggle for universal health care in the U.S.
Ellen Brown: Coronavirus Proves Capitalism Has Always Been a Lie
Economist Ellen Brown sheds light on the intricacies of an economic system that is being unmasked by the government’s pandemic response.
In the Classroom that Zoom Built
Consider the deep 'missingness' that teacher Belle Chesler has found in a public-school world that has collapsed into a Zoom heap amid the deep inequality and unfairness of a system…
Foreign Correspondent: Biden vs. Trump on Foreign Policy
We all know that Trump’s foreign policy has been a disaster. But is Joe Biden’s any better?
Ann Jones: Getting Trumped by Covid-19
As the coronavirus runs wild in Donald Trump’s America, veteran journalist and humanitarian Ann Jones offered a vivid analysis of how two countries, Norway and the U.S., dealt with it…
Chris Hedges on acTVism Munich: Biden vs. Trump, Bernie Sanders, Corporate Media, Assange & the State of the Left
In conversation with host Zain Raza of acTVism Munich, Hedges discusses his past work as a foreign correspondent with the New York Times and why he chose to quit. In…
These Untied States: Robert Scheer on ‘Fortress on the Hill’ Podcast (pt. 2)
In this portion of the pod we talk the Sanders-Biden endorsement, the future of Bernie’s movement, third parties, surveillance/social control, Eugene Debs, the future of journalism, and much much more.
Maj. Danny: America’s Libyan Detritus: The One Time Trump Was Right – It Was All Obama’s Fault
Nine years on – and one pandemic later – the Libyan 'shit show,' has gone full mercenary … and few notice.
Andrew Bacevich: A Greatest Generation We Are Not
We’re two decades into a new century, one in which the U.S. has been fighting a series of wars that won’t end and in which this country has only recently…
Netanyahu Uses Apparently Faked Docs to Push US Toward War with Iran
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli fabrication designed to trigger US military conflict with Iran.