In Australia, the U.S. has been quietly expanding and refocussing its “most important surveillance base in the world,” preparing it to fight a nuclear war against China, writes Peter Cronau.
Pine Gap Readies for US Nuclear War
Category: American Empire
SCOTT RITTER: The Murder of Others
The U.S. has had a moral obligation to commemorate Nagasaki, but this year the U.S. refused to mark its murder of innocent Japanese by defending its murder of innocent Palestinians.
Caitlin Johnstone: US Escalates War On Dissent
The U.S. empire has been doing everything it can to restrict the flow of inconvenient information as public opposition to its criminality swells at home and abroad.
Big Lie: Biden & Harris Hate Israel; Trump Loves Russia
On the fantasy worlds of Democrats trying to free Palestine from the river to the sea and Republicans trying to turn the White House into a puppet regime of Moscow, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Harris Would Continue Gaza Genocide
The empire’s behavior is no more changed with a new president — Trump or Harris — than a corporation is changed with a new secretary at the front desk of its main office, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Patrick Lawrence: ‘Brain Dead’ & Dangerous, NATO Proceeds
The trans–Atlantic alliance’s true purpose of global dominance is too objectionable to profess. Instead, it operates on the basis of fantastic conjurings, which no member questions.
WATCH: Lavrov at UN on Avoiding WWIII
Condemning U.S. exceptionalism, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov laid out to the Security Council how the world can overcome U.S.-led aggression to find peaceful co-existence in a multilateral world.
US-Led Military Exercises in Pacific Wreak Havoc
Hawaiian activists call on nations that condemn the genocide in Gaza to withdraw from the massive U.S.-organized RIMPAC military training illegally hosted on Hawaiian land.
NATO SUMMIT: Collectively Losing Their Minds
Soon after Russia entered Ukraine, the Pentagon corrected Antony Blinken for saying Kiev would get NATO fighter jets. Blinken was applauded at the NATO summit yesterday for saying F-16s would soon arrive in Ukraine. What changed? asks Joe Lauria.
75 Years of NATO = 75 Years of Denial
German parliamentarian Sevim Dagdelen says for NATO, denial of its true nature is part of the essence of the organization.