Vijay Prashad reflects on the social wealth being wasted in the name of defending U.S. hegemony.
Money for Weapons as the Planet Burns
Category: American Empire
LISTEN: No Such Thing as Dissent in the Age of Big Tech
Robert Scheer interviews Joe Lauria about the quashing of non-mainstream coverage of Ukraine by companies such as PayPal, YouTube and Facebook.
Caitlin Johnstone: Empire News Roundup
Recent developments touch on Latin American sovereignty, the narrative pivot on calling Ukraine a proxy war and U.S. investment in the reckless nuclear standoff.
LISTEN: American Dissent on Ukraine Dying in Darkness
Robert Scheer, former Los Angeles Times columnist and editor of ScheerPost, interviews Prof. Michael Brenner on Scheer’s podcast Scheer Intelligence. (With full transcript).
UKRAINE: Nonalignment & the Global South
Nontobeko Hlela sees an urgent imperative in rejecting a Cold War mentality of dividing the world along old acrimonious lines.
Chris Hedges: The Age of Self-Delusion
You can’t drain and impoverish the nation to feed an insatiable military machine unless you make its people afraid, even of phantoms.
A Reader Sounds Off on PayPal’s Ban on CN
As with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, journalism that tells some truths that might undermine the case for war can’t be tolerated, writes Jim Kavanagh.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Nation of ‘Geophobes’
Amid rampant Russophobia and Sinophobia, America’s penchant for Cold-War “national character analysis” will — if left unchecked — lead the U.S. into deepest trouble.
Investing in Guns or People?
For an explanation of the massive inflationary wave that is now cresting on the world and causing widespread suffering and instability, Vijay Prashad turns to U.S. economic policy.
The Madeleine Albright I Knew
The Consortium News editor-in-chief covered Madeleine Albright, who died on March 23, on a daily basis between 1993 and 1997 when she was the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Here are some of his recollections.