Weapons Contractors Destroy Lives While Reading Fairy Tales To Children
By Lee Camp / MintPress News A UN report recently revealed that at least 11,000 children have been killed or maimed in the US-backed War in Yemen. At the same…
The Real Reason the US Is Against the Entire World on Cuba
What is the point of the embargo on Cuba? What are we hoping to achieve? To punish a dead Fidel Castro for his sins? Maybe to punish a dead Che…
Haiti: ‘Intervention is Actively Destabilizing the Situation’
CounterSpin interview with Jake Johnston on Haiti intervention.
World At Dangerous Crossroads, Only Two Paths Forward: Anti-Imperialist Socialism or Fascist Barbarism
The US-led imperialist world system is in deep crisis, so it wages a new cold war to prevent multipolarity, while lurching toward fascism. The left must offer a true alternative…
Who Is This ‘Haiti’ That’s Appealing for Intervention?
The media calls for military intervention in Haiti, Jane Regan breaks down the reality of the situation.
The Last Thing Haiti Needs is Another Military Intervention
A massive insurrection in Haiti is bringing international attention and action, some of which is unwelcome.
The Chris Hedges Report: Nathaniel Philbrick on How George Armstrong Custer Became a Martyr Used to Justify Genocide and US Imperialism
Custer became in death a martyr to the American empire. He was in popular mythology the last to die in the battle, a symbol of martial valor, although there is…
US Judge Says Billions in Seized Central Bank Funds Belong to Afghan People
The judge's report, said a Center for Constitutional Rights attorney, "provides some hope that the people of Afghanistan will have access to the resources they so desperately need."
Ignoring How Militarism Fuels Climate Change Will Be the Death of Us
It’s time to acknowledge how the failure to connect the dots between U.S. imperialism and the growing climate crisis threatens all life on this planet in more ways than one.
The Angry Arab: Iran Losing Info War
The repercussions of the open sectarian war sparked by the U.S. invasion of Iraq can still be felt throughout the region, says As`ad AbuKhalil, partly because of Iran’s inaction.
Siding With Ukraine’s Far-Right, US Sabotaged Zelensky’s Peace Mandate
In 2019, Zelensky was elected on an overwhelming mandate to make peace with Russia. As Stephen F. Cohen warned that year, the US chose to side with Ukraine’s far-right and…
Hedges: On Being Disappeared
The entire archive of six years of my show On Contact has been removed by YouTube.
Stop This Imperialist Russian War
We must press the war masters on both/all sides of the Ukrainian conflict to negotiate for peace since there’s no social justice, no democracy, and no livable ecology for the…
The Antiwar Movement That Wasn’t Enough
While so many Americans ignored our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq along with the global war on terror more generally, a surprising number of American vets (and sometimes even active-duty…
The Three Types of U.S. ‘Regime Change’
When the U.S. overthrows a foreign government it either works from the top down, the bottom up, or through military invasion.