Most officers at the George Floyd protests received only vague academy training that emphasized arresting protesters over defending their rights. LAST YEAR, after New York officials announced a plan to dispatch 500 additional police officers to the city’s subway system, a coalition of activist groups organized a series of protests. On January …

We have been moved yet another step closer to planetary destruction. On April 29 Tom Engelhardt, a respected commentator on world affairs, published a piece examining America’s everlasting wars and concluded “The question that Americans seldom even think to ask is this: What if the U.S. were to begin to …

The Director of National Intelligence has ostensibly created a new “center” for the sharing and analysis of information and intelligence about foreign interference in US elections. Its real focus is much more nefarious. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced in a statement on Monday that it …

Italy’s Anti-Mafia Directorate and the “Dirty Campaign” to Criminalize Migration AFANA DIEUDONNE OFTEN says that he is not a superhero. That’s Dieudonne’s way of saying he’s done things he’s not proud of — just like anyone in his situation would, he says, in order to survive. From his home in Cameroon …

National and global crises are seen as opportunities by government technocrats, billionaire oligarchs, Big Pharma, Big Data, Big Media and the military industrial intelligence apparatus to increase their power and wealth. Incitement of fear has been a central strategy of totalitarian systems for millennia. Demagogues weaponize fear to justify demands …

The double-think and double-standard are patently absurd. But dangerously absurd. The European Union excelled in double-think this week when it censured China for “endangering peace” in the South China Sea while at the same time European states are sending an unprecedented number of warships to the Indo-Pacific region. Germany is soon deploying a frigate …

War is peace, peace is war. Here’s the strange thing in an ever-stranger world: I was born in July 1944 in the midst of a devastating world war. That war ended in August 1945 with the atomic obliteration of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by the most devastating bombs …

Overseas Operations Bill had sought to protect British soldiers, including those who served in Iraq, for crimes including genocide and torture

The flights, revealed in documents obtained by The Intercept, underscore the growing militarization of policing. THE U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE flew unmanned drones over Washington, D.C., in response to last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, documents obtained by The Intercept via the Freedom of Information Act show. The documents — two brief, …

The graveyard of empires redux. On May 1st, the date Donald Trump signed onto for the withdrawal of the remaining 3,500 American troops from Afghanistan, the war there, already 19 years old, was still officially a teenager. Think of September 11, 2021—the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the date Joe Biden has …