Ranil Wickremasinghe sits in the President’s House with a failing agenda that threatens to draw the country into the escalating U.S.-China conflict, writes Vijay Prashad.
Sri Lanka Being Dragged Into US-China Conflict
Author: corinna barnard
US Industrial Sites Pose New Climate Risk
The authors say the latest government report vastly underestimates the scale and scope of the contamination risks many communities will face in the decades ahead.
Veterans Arrested Protesting US Military’s Climate Role
The demonstration came weeks after the U.S. House passed legislation authorizing $839 billion in military spending for the upcoming fiscal year, rejecting amendments that would have modestly cut Pentagon funding.
Al-Qaeda Chief Killing Does Not ‘Make Us Safer’
Whatever people in the U.S. might think about the killing of al Zawahiri in the middle of the Afghan capital 7,000 miles away, safety and security are hardly likely to top the list, writes Phyllis Bennis.
Chris Hedges: When the Just Go to Prison
The imprisonment of Daniel Hale, federal prisoner 26069-075 in Marion, Illinois, is a microcosm of the vast gulag being constructed for all of us.
SCOTT RITTER: Chuck Schumer’s War on Free Speech
The Senate majority leader pushed through a funding bill that now supports a structure under which U.S. citizens and politicians — including a challenger for his own seat — are being targeted as “information terrorists.”
US Auto Union Reformers Gain at Convention
The caucus celebrated a couple of victories, Keith Brower Brown and Jane Slaughter report. But on the last day, the ruling faction went on the attack.
‘Playing with Fire:’ China on Pelosi in Taiwan
The House speaker’s visit also prompted protests from the streets of Taipei to her hometown of San Francisco.
Nancy Pelosi Taiwan Visit Could Get Us All Killed
Biden’s unwillingness to clearly head off such a visit reflects the insidious style of his own confrontational approach to China, writes Norman Solomon.
Blaming the Victims of McGurk’s Bar Bombing
Survivors now believe the authorities chose to blame the IRA for Belfast’s deadliest bombing during the Northern Ireland conflict to give cover to their key security policy, Anne Cadwallader reports.