An empire is as good as its military and the U.S. military is in crisis: running out of ammunition; Middle East bases destroyed; volunteers exhausted. Ann Wright, Ray McGovern. 8 pm Tonite.
Ann Wright says the frustration expressed by military families at a recent Veterans for Peace conference echoed those of families with relatives on U.S. military bases in the Middle East.
No person should have to fear that every trip down the street is being permanently recorded, writes Judge Andrew P. Napolitano.
With its unwinnable war on Iran, the U.S. urgently needs to rethink the illegal and corrupt policy of aggressive war it has pursued since 2001, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
The military whistleblower who revealed Australian war crimes committed in Afghanistan has been released from federal prison after a lung cancer diagnosis, reports Joe Lauria.
Israel can maintain the illusion that overwhelming violence has pacified Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, writes Ramzy Baroud. But military domination is not real control.
Olivia DiNucci reflects on a year of living with National Guard troops meandering around the streets, metro stations, museums and grocery stores of the U.S. capital city.
There is no ceasefire in Gaza; no functioning “Board of Peace.” There is only genocide. It changes shape and intensity but not its essence.
Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us.
Downing Street persuaded Panorama to cut an exposé on the shooting of an unarmed boy in Derry in 1972, reports Anne Cadwallader.
While popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society.
First came the Flock cameras. Now, hundreds of local police departments have received government waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI, Mike Ludwig reports.
James Zogby calls El-Sayed’s victory in the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, a bellwether Midwestern battleground state, a watershed moment in U.S. politics.
Whitney Webb discusses how the Epstein Network is privatizing the government, building out the Surveillance State and pursuing a new model of feudalism enforced by technology.
An unpublished chapter in the U.S. Democrats’ “autopsy” report on the party’s loss to Trump in the last presidential election made its way to The New York Times, as Brad Reed reports.
For over a century, U.S. officials have regarded Cuba as a plantation to exploit, rival to defeat, or dissenting voice to silence, never shedding their colonial outlook, writes Jonathan Ng.
Those who challenge and protest U.S. policies are not foreign-paid terrorists; Rubio and other Trump appointees are using “McCarthy” tactics to stop dissent, says Ann Wright.
On the 81st anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing today, we ask how we can avoid nuclear holocaust. Plus overreaction to U.S. socialism and Trump’s trap in Iran. Scott Ritter, Rick Wolff, 8 p.m. EDT Tonite.
Democratic Socialists are contesting elections as if they are members of a party, but there is no party. This is not a small detail.
A government willing to kill millions and spend trillions on war while borrowing to pay interest on borrowed money will one day collapse of its own weight; as have all empires, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.
By allowing the U.S. nuclear posture to shift away from deterrence toward warfighting, all we guarantee is that eventually there will be a warfighting scenario that uses nuclear weapons. And then we all die.