Biden's choice for Pentagon chief further erodes a key U.S. norm: civilian control
- Glenn Greenwald
Gen. Lloyd Austin, on the Raytheon Board, is yet another high-level Biden nominee enmeshed in D.C.'s corporatist "revolving door" of legalized influence-peddling.
Then-Commander of US Central Command Gen. Lloyd Austin III conducts ...
Jim Mattis leads charge to end Trump’s ‘America First’ folly
- Dave Makichuk
The White House amateur hour, or should I say comedy hour, may finally be over.
Dave Granlund
US President Donald Trump’s simplistic “America First” defense strategy, may be scrapped, along with his unhinged Twitter-esque rantings. ...
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s misguided defense of John Brennan and the Logan Act: a dangerous and unconstitutional law
- Glenn Greenwald
Foreign policy dissidents have the greatest interest in repealing the Logan Act, not wielding it as a weapon to shield ex-CIA Directors while heralding it as a clearly defined criminal statute.
The right to dissent from, and to work against, the ...
Biden and the Dems Should Have Buried Trumpism. But They Provided No Alternative
- Hadas Thier
In last week’s election, the Democrats performed terribly, despite running during a period of unprecedented crisis against a uniquely unpopular president. Donald Trump’s four years of demagoguery and corporate giveaways should have been ...
Trump and Melania according to Fritz Lang
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
As of today, America does not seem convinced by its democratic nature and its democratic process. One poll released yesterday claims that “less than half of the Americans believe Biden is the legitimate winner of election; a ...
Gridlock – Biden may or may not win, but Trump remains ‘President’ of Red America
- Alastair Crooke
One clear outcome of the U.S. election was the collapse of the promised ‘Blue Wave’ – an implosion that marks the ‘beginning of the end’ to a powerful spell enthralling the West. It was the delusion which Ron Chernow, ...
Lost children — and the U.S. empire
- Workers World
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has had to reveal that it “lost track” of the families of 545 children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. The migrant children are still suffering, alone and parentless, ...
USA: First comes a rolling civil war
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
The massive psyops is ongoing. Everyone familiar with the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) knew how this would imperatively play out. I chose to frame it as a think tank gaming exercise in my Banana Follies column. This is a live exercise. Yet no ...
Their democracy and ours: Angela Davis in conversation with Astra Taylor
- Jacobin
Legendary activist Angela Davis and filmmaker Astra Taylor talk about economic democracy, criminal justice, and why we need a socialist internationalism.
In mid-October, renowned filmmaker and writer Astra Taylor spoke with legendary thinker and radical ...
Banana Follies: the Mother of All Color Revolutions
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
In this gaming exercise the incumbent president, Buffoon, was painted red; the challenger, Corpse, blue
A gaming exercise of the perfect, indigenous color revolution, code-named Blue, was leaked from a major think tank established in the imperial ...
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