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US billionaires are cashing in big at a time of widespread unemployment, underemployment, and deprivation. More below on reported data. For ordinary Americans, the hardest of hard times are indicative of what may prove to be a new normal. Growing poverty, food insecurity, the threat of widespread evictions, collapsing small …

The US today spends more than $80 billion a year incarcerating 2.3 million people in state and federal prisons, local jails, youth facilities and deportation centers. That’s $80 billion that comes out of public coffers and goes into public confinement. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many were shocked …

Western Hegemony, Gulf State Despots and Modern-Day Genocide of the Yemeni People Recently, US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden released a statement on his promise to end his country’s support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen saying that “under Biden-Harris Administration, we will reassess our relationship with the [Saudi Arabia] Kingdom, end …

Institutions and presses that held power to account have become part of unaccountable power, and now only tough reform can reverse the damage.

The President of the United States has the power to fire off thousands of nuclear weapons and destroy the world. As succinctly explained by William Perry and Tom Collina in the New York Times, “Mr. Trump has the absolute authority to start a nuclear war. Within minutes, the president could unleash the equivalent …

The US is the most observed country in the world. Since it’s the world’s current empire (and since it is beginning its death throes as an empire), it’s fascinating to watch. Those of us outside of the US watch it like Americans watch TV. It’s like a slow-motion car wreck …

Shhhh, don’t tell Americans about the Blue Leaks and the Syria PR Leaks. The mainstream media’s virtual blackout must mean they aren’t supposed to know.

The military-industrial complex greases supposedly neutral US think tanks to the tune of over $1 billion a year

American military are stealing oil in Syria, trucking it into Turkey while the Syrian people do without fuel. American military burned wheat fields in Syria, this is not conjecture. American military attacked Syria with missiles, albeit with a humorous lack of success, in response to poison gas attacks that the …

Donald Trump runs U.S. Middle East policy much the way Don Coreleone ran his Mafia empire: through pursuit of common interests where possible and, if that failed, through bullying and extortion.  News reports indicate few, if any of the Middle East states negotiating to normalize relations with Israel are doing …