Long ago, the U.S. government stopped listening to other countries’ governments, as reflected in its recent series of vetoes in the Security Council and in its unprecedented isolation in the world. But recently, and more dangerously, the U.S. government officials have stopped listening to themselves. This is not an entirely …
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Solidarity Marches Held Across Globe to Demand Cease-Fire in Gaza
Organizers held rallies in the U.S., Europe, and Asia to mark Nakba Day and condemn Israel’s bombing and starvation of Palestinian civilian As one United Nations official on Saturday said that “brand new words” are needed to adequately describe the devastation Israel has wrought across Gaza in its U.S.-backed military assault, tens of thousands of people …
Read More »War Hysteria Fuels New Attacks on Free Speech
Washington’s interventionist and bipartisan foreign policy blob in recent weeks has pushed two new and despotic pieces of legislation. Both are designed to consolidate even more federal power in the name of combatting various alleged foreign enemies. The first of these is the so-called “TikTok ban” with the Orwellian name “Protecting Americans …
Read More »What Is the Missing Crucial Component in US Foreign Policy? People.
Despite worldwide concern over the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and despite the USA being the only country in the world in a strong enough position to put adequate pressure on Israel to check this, the USA has failed to make any truly significant remedial contribution in this context so …
Read More »United States’ gains are measured in lives lost
The financing of the Kiev regime is more of a covert financing program for the military industrial complex, than an actual “aid” package for Ukraine’s defense.
Read More »The US Empire Deliberately Stokes Hatred And Violence In The Middle East
I sometimes see people expressing bafflement that the US would back a genocide in the middle east knowing that it will radicalize the region against them, mistakenly thinking this goes against US strategic goals. And I always want to say to them, uh, have you been asleep the last quarter …
Read More »War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young
In the Thrall of a Dominant Death Culture Persisting in his support for an unpopular war, the Democrat in the White House has helped spark a rebellion close to home. Young people — least inclined to deference, most inclined to moral outrage — are leading public opposition to the ongoing …
Read More »The Militarization of Space: Report to U.S. Congress Outlines U.S. Determination to Establish “Space Command and Control”
Back in mid-February, the mainstream propaganda machine bombarded us with a slew of reports about “big bad Russian space nukes“, claiming that Moscow is using its technological prowess to build strategic space-based weapons. And while it’s true the Eurasian giant is a cosmic superpower and that it certainly has the …
Read More »The Nation’s Conscience
The courageous stance of students across the country in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear. NEW YORK CITY: I am sitting on a fire escape across the street from Columbia University with three …
Read More »Courageous Students Disrupt America’s Culture of Death and War
Leaders of the most powerful American institutions want to continue as usual, as if official participation in genocide were no particular cause for alarm. Those protesting on campuses nationwide have shown us how repugnant and unacceptable that position is. Persisting in his support for an unpopular war, the Democrat in …
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