Professor Noam Chomsky gives his thoughts on the future of the left and weighs in on the current state of the media landscape. Prof. Richard Wolff: The System Is Failing Jason Howerton @jason_howerton The left has created a monster that they have lost complete control of… I never …
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Nuclear War: A Thought Experiment
Russia has declassified the video footage of the largest nuclear explosion of all time, the Arctic detonation of the so-called “Tsar Bomba” in 1961. The explosion was 1,500 times more powerful than those which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, and ten times more powerful than all munitions detonated during the entirety of World War Two. Its …
Read More »What Trump’s Troop Withdrawal from Iraq Means for Ending America’s Endless Wars
The Wall Street Journal scoop on the details of the Trump administration’s troop withdrawal from Iraq is welcome news. Reportedly, President Donald Trump is cutting U.S. troop levels by one- third, to about 3,500 troops from 5,200. This move would bring force levels back to where they were in 2015, at the height of …
Read More »CIA’s Addiction to Afghanistan War
It is America’s longest overseas war and shows no clear sign of ending despite a shaky peace deal underway between the Trump administration and Taliban militants. A phased withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan over the next year could yet be derailed, resulting in continued American military operations in the …
Read More »Dubai’s Role in Facilitating Corruption and Global Illicit Financial Flows
Dubai is just one of many enablers of global corruption, crime, and illicit financial flows, but addressing the emirate’s role presents anticorruption practitioners, law enforcement agencies, and policymakers with particularly complex challenges. A twenty-first-century city, Dubai is a global financial center, a shopper’s paradise, and an oasis for the world’s …
Read More »Robot Generals
Will They Make Better Decisions Than Humans—Or Worse? With Covid-19 incapacitating startling numbers of U.S. service members and modern weapons proving increasingly lethal, the American military is relying ever more frequently on intelligent robots to conduct hazardous combat operations. Such devices, known in the military as “autonomous weapons systems,” include robotic sentries, battlefield-surveillance drones, …
Read More »US election 2020 polls: Who is ahead – Trump or Biden?
Voters in America will decide on 3 November whether Donald Trump remains in the White House for another four years. The Republican president is being challenged by Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden, who is best known as Barack Obama’s vice-president but has been in US politics since the 1970s. As …
Read More »The End of American Illusion
Trump and the World as It Is Since the end of the Cold War, most U.S. policymakers have been beguiled by a set of illusions about the world order. On critical issues, they have seen the world as they wish it were and not how it really is. President Donald …
Read More »Oxfam: Saudis Carry Out Equivalent of One Attack Every Ten Days on Yemen’s Medical and Water Facilities
According to a new Oxfam analysis, the Saudi Collation has carried out the equivalent of “one air raid every ten days during the conflict affecting hospitals, clinics, ambulances, water drills, tanks and trucks,” since it began the war in 2015.
Read More »Beware the US-Israel-UAE Strategic Agenda for the Arab Region
It certainly was dramatic, as US President Donald Trump announced in the White House Thursday an agreement by the United Arab Emirates and Israel to move to full normalization. But is it really a harbinger of wider peace in the Middle East? Or rather, something to cause us all great concern, as three …
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