Assuming the president does actually want to ditch this 19-plus year disaster, Danny Sjursen says two main sets of problems stand in his way.
The claim relies on data abuse and baseless claims by a far-right ideologue, Gareth Porter and Max Blumenthal report.
If this happens, the hearing at the High Court in London will acquire epochal importance, writes Alexander Mercouris.
Justice has finally prevailed, writes Donald Pols. But this should have been a clear-cut case.
Many Marxists in colonized zones had never read Marx, writes Vijay Prashad in this sampling of influential leftists, many from peasant societies, who built theories appropriate to their own context.
This weapon will continue to be used against the left, not only to support Israel but to prevent the rise of any political movements in powerful Western nations, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
The request to Congress comes days after relatives of a prominent Egyptian American activist were arrested and jailed.
The levy would target high-frequency trading and is projected to generate $777 billion over a 10-year period.
Ben Norton reports on the State Department’s ire at “foreign agent” legislation that made a U.S.-funded, right-wing foundation decide to close.
Thirty years after the capture of Mogadishu by opposition forces, Mohamed Duale and Jabril Abdullahi reflect on it now, as a tale of four cities.
Chuck Collins and Bob Lord summarize the radical tax transformation in the U.S. over the past 65 years, particularly since 1980.
Millions of people are endangered by the Lone Star state’s isolated and underregulated electric grid.
Its decline coincided with the rise of another, more effective process by which high officials could be held accountable, writes Eliga Gould.
Elites and their courtiers who trumpet their moral superiority by damning and silencing those who do not linguistically conform to politically correct speech are the new Jacobins.
Chris Hedges reviews Gerald Horne’s book, The Bittersweet Science, on racism, racketeering and the political economy of boxing.
“The increasing number of children going hungry in Yemen should shock us all into action. More children will die with every day that passes without action,” the report says. By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams Underscoring the urgent need to end…
Due to the CIA’s refusal to be transparent about the exact nature of its involvement in Syria, people are left to fill in the knowledge gaps with their own speculation, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Jonathan Cook says a long line of journalists, himself included, have run afoul of the paper’s unwritten but tightly policed constraints on the subject of Israel.
The U.S. has filed an appeal with the High Court in London to reverse a decision by a British judge not to extradite the WikiLeaks publisher on health grounds.
Palestinians in Gaza are haunted by social misery, violence and wars every second of their lives, writes Ali Abdel-Wahab.
There are plenty of malevolent actors here and abroad who would relish seeing martial law declared, writes James Bovard.
Biden’s order is a good start, but Rebekah Entralgo says it doesn’t cover immigration detention facilities, which are far more prevalent than regular private prisons.
Her leadership at the global trade authority only matters to the extent that she helps developing countries to pursue industrial policies, writes Francisco Perez.
Improved language – however admirable – often masks much more stable, status quo, indecency, warns Danny Sjursen.
Biden isn’t just upholding Trump’s assault on press freedoms, he’s rejecting Obama’s decision not to charge Assange due to First Amendment concerns, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
After the Capitol uprising, rather than earn Americans’ trust by ruling in their interests, the government has begun building defenses against the people, writes Joe Lauria.
The joists & beams that hold U.S. democracy are not as flexible as they appear, writes Scott Ritter. They are the byproduct of societal passion of two political parties and are on the brink of failure.
What does a CIA-style counterinsurgency campaign inside the U.S. look like? Just use Iraq and Afghanistan as a model.
The coalition says Trump abused U.S. prosecutorial powers and that Biden should back away from a dangerous precedent.
We now watch as Biden and his foreign policy people effectively allow Israel to dictate the conditions under which the president can fulfill his campaign promise on Iran.
