GUILTY: Jury condemns U.S. colonial crimes in Puerto Rico
- John Catalinotto
New York, Oct. 27 — A jury of 15 international human rights activists and fighters for liberation — following eight hours of succinct testimony covering decades of history and two hours of deliberation — announced tonight’s ...
The ever more Orwellian definition of terrorism
- C.J. Hopkins
In terms of twisting the English language into a ludicrous Orwellian mockery of itself in order to short circuit critical thinking, this has been a particularly good week. My favorite part so far has been the part where respectable leftists writers ...
Republicans are coming for your Social Security and Medicare
The warning signs are already here
- Thom Hartmann
The billionaire fascists are coming for your Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And they’re openly bragging about it.
Bob Englehart
Right after Trump’s election, back in December of 2016, Newt Gingrich openly bragged at ...
The assault on the new colossus: Trump’s threat to close the U.S.-Mexican border
- Ipek S. Burnett
On Thursday, October 18th at 4:25 am, President Trump took to Twitter with a threat to close the U.S.-Mexican border. The back-to-back tweets echoed the same words: assault, onslaught, criminals, drugs. Most of them in capital letters, of course.
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John Mearsheimer and Stephen Cohen take on the delusional neocon-neoliberal establishment in a vital debate
- Federico Pieraccini
In New York City on September 20, 2018, the Intelligence Squared hosted a debate of critical importance in helping one understand much of what we are currently seeing on the global scene.
The debate developed along three main questions. The ...
Columbus Day: romancing greed, slavery, and genocide
- Ipek S. Burnett
Christopher Columbus has long been a patriotic symbol for the United States of America. Honored with more place names than any other figure of American history except for George Washington, he has been praised as a great explorer—courageous, ...
Seven Days in September
- Joe Lauria
A new book, an anonymous Op-Ed and an Obama speech in the first seven days of September appeared to reveal dangerous insider moves against a dangerous, but constitutionally elected president, writes Joe Lauria.
In the first seven days of September ...
Psychopolitics of the scarecrow
- Jorge Majfud
President Donald Trump has just announced that, to answer the endless list of books that criticize him (especially books written by his former friends and trusted men, who by now are almost all of them), the White House will publish "a real book" ...
‘Resistance’ runs amok in the US Deep Throat War
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Bob Woodward’s book and the ‘resistance’ op-ed look increasingly like a sophisticated psy-ops scheme and a prelude for a ‘Deep State’ coup
The New York Times front page, dated August 9, 1974, on President Richard Nixon's ...
Reality Winner: NSA contractor jailed for five years over classified report leak
- Amanda Holpuch
Winner, who leaked report on Russian election interference, is first person Trump administration charged under Espionage Act
Prosecutors said that the NSA contractor Reality Winner printed a classified document showing Russian interference in the ...
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