Records show 312,000 parcels and letters were recorded by postal inspectors between 2015-2023 The US Postal Service (USPS) has been spying on thousands of Americans’ mail every year for a decade, including letters and parcels, and provided citizens’ information to police and elements of the national security apparatus, a Washington Post investigation found. …

On the beauty of art and the terrifying nature of our weapons of mass destruction.

If physical violence is to be used only as a final resort, a dominant class must seek to gain people’s consent if it is to govern and control a population. It must attempt to legitimize its position in the eyes of the ruled over by achieving a kind of ‘consented …

Imagine, if you will, a world in which the rules and institutions of global governance actually reflected the underlying distribution of power on the world stage. In such a world, the major powers wouldn’t be locked in a struggle for outdated ideologies or clinging to an order built for a …

“When someone shows you who they are,” Maya Angelou said, “believe them the first time.” That should apply to foreign-policy elites who show you who they are, time after time. Officials running the Pentagon and State Department have been in overdrive for more than 250 days in support of Israel’s …

In 1953, at British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s urging, the Eisenhower administration carried out a coup overthrowing a democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh and replaced him with a puppet named Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In 1979, the people of Iran overthrew him. Ever since then, Iran has become our arch enemy. Was …

While a great deal of controversies have arisen in the world-wide activities of USAID it may be worthwhile to explore its attempts of preventing individuals from finding information that challenges official narratives. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was created by the U.S. president John Fitzgerald Kennedy on 3 November …

When it comes to the Middle East, the choice in November 2024 is clear enough. We may wish we had a different choice, but we do not. Recently, I attended a demonstration called by groups opposing the carnage in Gaza, where eight months of air, ground, and sea attacks by the …

Two new reports detail how the world’s nine nuclear-armed countries are spending aggressively to modernize and deploy weapons that pose an existential threat to civilization. A pair of reports published Monday show that global spending on nuclear arms surged to nearly $3,000 a second last year as nations expanded and …

Now should be a time of diplomacy to bring the NATO proxy war madness in Ukraine to an end. But the warmongers of the U.S., EU, G7 and NATO have no such qualms about escalating the futile hostilities to a nuclear apocalypse. This week provided an instructive juxtaposition of summits. …