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Column, Commentary, NATO, Russia, Ukraine

SCOTT RITTER: Lithuania’s Brinkmanship

June 30, 2022

The restoration of Russia’s rail connection with Kaliningrad is urgently needed to avoid a conflict in the Baltics that has worried NATO for a long time. 

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Biden Administration, Commentary, Constitution, Gun Violence, Guns, Media, Politics, Trump Administration, U.S. Supreme Courrt, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

American Gun Culture & Frontier Mythology

June 30, 2022

Contrary to the imagery of the Wild West, Pierre M. Atlas says many towns in the real Old West had tougher restrictions on the carrying of guns than the one just invalidated by the Supreme Court. 

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Libya, NATO, Terrorism, United Kingdon, United Nations

UK Knew Terrorists Would Gain from Toppling Gaddafi

June 30, 2022

The revelation raises serious questions about British foreign policy and whether David Cameron misled Parliament, write Phil Miller and Mark Curtis.

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Commentary, Constitution, Human Rights, Right Wing, U.S. Supreme Courrt, Women

Self-Determination Wrenched from Half US Population

June 29, 2022

There is no reason, in fact or in law, to erase the constitutional right to abortion, writes Marjorie Cohn.

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Commentary, Gun Violence, Guns, U.S.

‘Hardening’ US Schools

June 29, 2022

William Astore says the idea of putting students and teachers inside pseudo military bunkers represents a surrender to the notion of schools as potential sites of gun combat and mass death.

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American Empire, Commentary, Finland, International, NATO, Russia, Sweden, Turkey

NATO Expands, Responding to War Caused by NATO Expansion

June 29, 2022

At the same NATO summit, President Biden announced plans to ramp up U.S. military presence in Europe in response to the Ukraine war, writes Caitlin Johnstone.

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Biden Administration, Commentary, Europe, Militarism, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

NATO & a War Foretold

June 28, 2022

Instead of exploiting this crisis to expand even further, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davie says the military alliance should suspend all new or pending membership applications until the current crisis has been resolved.  

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Column, Commentary, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Media, Middle East, Palestine, Religion, Saudi Arabia, U.S.

THE ANGRY ARAB: Iran Losing Info War

June 28, 2022

The repercussions of the open sectarian war sparked by the U.S. invasion of Iraq can still be felt throughout the region, says As`ad AbuKhalil, partly because of Iran’s inaction.

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China, Commentary, COVID-19, Human Rights, U.S.

COVID-19: China’s Death Toll Puts US to Shame

June 28, 2022

The public health measures that have worked so well on the mainland should not be lightly dismissed, writes John Walsh.

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American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Intelligence, Russia, Ukraine

Caitlin Johnstone: Ukraine Crawling with CIA & Co

June 27, 2022

The previously unthinkable idea that the U.S. is at war with Russia has been gradually normalized, with the heat turned up so slowly that the frog doesn’t notice it’s being boiled alive.

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American Empire, Column, Commentary, Europe, Foreign Policy, Germany, International, Nazism, Russia, U.S., Ukraine

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Who Should Control Foreign Policy?

June 27, 2022

Proposing that foreign policy be subjected to democratic processes is a call, essentially, to revolution.

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Commentary, Germany, Politics, Right Wing, Trump Administration, U.S., U.S. Supreme Courrt, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Chris Hedges: Fascists in Our Midst

June 27, 2022

In their ideal America, our “secular humanist” society based on science and reason will be destroyed. The Ten Commandments will form the basis of the legal system.

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Column, Commentary, Europe, Media, Militarism, Propaganda, Russia, U.S., Ukraine

SCOTT RITTER: The Fantasy of Fanaticism

June 25, 2022

Despite what some “defense analysts” may be telling Western media, the longer the war continues, the more Ukrainians will die and the weaker NATO will become.

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Commentary, Media, Politics, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

The Myth of Woodward, Bernstein & Watergate

June 25, 2022

The 50th anniversary this month of the Watergate break-in led W. Joseph Campbell to examine the persistence of a simplistic version of events that even Watergate-era principals at The Washington Post tried to refute.    

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American Dispatches: The Journalism of Robert Parry

June 25, 2022

A collection of the journalism of the late Robert Parry, a premier investigative journalist who founded this site in 1995, has just been published. 

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Africa, Commentary, Environment, Mexico, South Africa

The Mexican Energy Option

June 24, 2022

Bruce Baigrie highlights AMLO’s battle against privatization and suggests it offers a model for South Africa, in particular, to follow. 

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Biden Administration, Cold War, Commentary, Militarism, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, United Kingdon

Caitlin Johnstone: A Nuclear State of Denial

June 24, 2022

For younger people, it’s hard to understand that the same nuclear Armageddon scenario their grandparents used to worry about is still here.  

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Assange extradition, Censorship, Human Rights, Julian Assange, Mike Pompeo, Politics, Propaganda, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdon, WikiLeaks, Yemen

Corbyn on the Establishment’s Campaign Against Him

June 24, 2022

In an interview with Matt Kennard, the former Labour Party leader speaks candidly about British media, the U.K. military and intelligence services, Israel, Keir Starmer, Julian Assange and Saudi Arabia.

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China, Commentary, COVID-19, Europe, International, Russia, United Nations

The Architecture of Our Future

June 23, 2022

The anti-inflation policies driven by the U.S. and the Eurozone are not going to ease the burdens on the working class in their countries and certainly not in the debt-ridden Global South, writes Vijay Prashad.

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Human Rights, Legal, U.S.

Documenting Abuse in Illinois Prisons

June 23, 2022

Shielded from public view, “correction officers” received scant discipline, Shannon Heffernan reports. 

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Biden Administration, Commentary, Militarism, Military, Military Industry, Pentagon, U.S., U.S. Congress

Adding $37 Billion to Biden’s Military Budget

June 23, 2022

In a House committee vote, U.S. representatives voted 42-17 in favor of Rep. Jared Golden’s amendment to boost the president’s  already gargantuan military spending request.

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Civil Rights, Column, Commentary, Legal, Susan Williams, U.S., U.S. Supreme Courrt

JOHN KIRIAKOU: Robbed by Law Enforcement

June 22, 2022

People who have never even been charged with a crime can have their life savings taken away. That’s civil asset forfeiture. 

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Africa, Asia, Central America, China, Cold War, Commentary, International, Latin America, Russia, Ukraine, United Nations

Staying Out of Troubled Waters

June 22, 2022

Humberto Márquez reports on the new international non-alignment trend triggered by the war in Ukraine.

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Assange extradition, Britain, Germany, Julian Assange, Legal, U.S., WikiLeaks

Assange Put on Suicide Watch After Patel Decision, Father Says

June 22, 2022

John Shipton said Julian Assange was stripped naked and put in an empty cell to prevent him from killing himself over the home secretary’s decision to sign his extradition order, Joe Lauria reports.

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Commentary, Human Rights, Scotland

Craig Murray: Your Man in Saughton Jail Part 2

June 21, 2022

Think of every sensible thing you think you know about prison. Think of education, training, rehabilitation. It is all completely ignored by the Scottish Prison Service.

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American Empire, Asia, Biden Administration, China, Commentary, Europe, Militarism, North Korea, Russia, U.S., Ukraine

Largest US & NATO Naval Drills in Pacific

June 21, 2022

Ann Wright runs through several reasons to cancel this year’s Rim of the Pacific military war games. 

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Civil Rights, Commentary, Israel, Middle East, Nuclear Weapons, Palestine, United Kingdon

Criminalizing Palestine Solidarity Activism in the UK

June 21, 2022

The British government has long tried to quell pro-Palestine activism, writes Yara Hawari. Recent maneuvers, however, mark a new era in state repression.

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American Empire, Assange extradition, Biden Administration, Climate Change, Commentary, COVID-19, Julian Assange, U.S.

Chris Hedges: The Triumph of Death

June 20, 2022

The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates and mass death is normalized.

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Afghanistan, American Empire, Assange extradition, Australia, Biden Administration, Commentary, Iraq, Media, Mike Pompeo, Torture, Trump Administration, U.S., WikiLeaks

If Albanese Asks for Assange’s Freedom, Biden Has Every Reason to Agree

June 20, 2022

Ex-Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr says it’s time the U.S. closed the books on the disastrous wars unloosed by George W. Bush.

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Biden Administration, Commentary, Economy, Income Inequality, Labor, U.S.

Taxing the Rich to Boost Social Security

June 20, 2022

Instead of growing financial security, Sam Pizzigati says the current retirement system in the U.S. is growing greater overall economic inequality.  

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Afghanistan, American Empire, Biden Administration, China, Commentary, Cuba, Iraq, Latin America, Militarism, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, U.S., Venezuela

The Lethality of the Global Monroe Doctrine

June 20, 2022

From its attacks on Global South countries to its willingness to go to war with a great power such as Russia, the U.S. is increasingly employing military force to compensate for its economic decline, writes Vijay Prashad.

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