Zuckerberg’s deployment of algorithms to please the F.B.I. is a glaring example of how billionaires and government work together to control information in an oligarchy.
Caitlin Johnstone: FBI’s Muting of Hunter Biden Story
Month: August 2022
Indian Workers Defend Steel With Their Lives
What we have here, writes Vijay Prashad, is a government adhering to the religion of privatization and eager to cannibalize Visakha Steel.
When People Want Housing in India, They Build It
These land occupations are filled with tension and joy, writes Vijay Prashad. The perils of being beaten by the police mix with the promise of collective life.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Don’t Charge Trump With Espionage
Nobody should face the charge unless they are working for a foreign power and mean harm to the United States.
The ‘Fact-Checking’ Liberal Media
Sam Husseini flags an unhinged exchange between NPR’s Terry Gross and New York Times Magazine writer Robert Draper.
Caitlin Johnstone: If Everyone Is King, No One Is
‘Blowback:’ UK, Libya & the Manchester Attack
Phil Miller introduces a film probing the role of British foreign policy in contributing to the atrocity.
WATCH: Ukraine — Causes & Solutions
Jake Lynch, chair, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies (DPACS), University of Sydney in a discussion at Politics in the Pub on the origins of the Ukraine conflict and a way out of it.
US, Israel & Procrastinating on Iran Nuclear Deal
The talks, which have proceeded haltingly for months, are aimed at bringing the U.S. back into compliance with an accord that Trump violated in 2018.
The Western Narrative on Russia & China
It’s past time that the U.S. recognized the true sources of security: internal social cohesion and responsible cooperation with the rest of the world, rather than the illusion of hegemony, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.