Vijay Prashad reflects on the geo-political backdrop to last month’s “African Lion 21,” a U.S.-led military exercise on the African continent that involved the armed forces of 21 countries.
A Senseless Cathedral of Doom
Category: American Empire
Billionaires Are Lifting Off: Good Riddance
When wealth concentrates, Sam Pizzigati says we get a society that revolves around the egos of the most affluent among us.
AFGHANISTAN: Goodbye for Good to a War That Shouldn’t Have Been Fought
Danny Sjursen takes aim at powerful Washingtonian hawks who are trying to push the U.S. back for a third time into Afghanistan.
US Concern for Cuba, Latin America Is Really Spin for Intervention
Tamara Pearson says Washington’s recent discourse is aimed at dressing itself, the bully, as the savior.
Hidden Hand of US Blockade Sparks Cuba Protests
The protests should be understood in the context of a brutal economic war waged by the United States against the island nation for more than 60 years, write Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores.
On the Brink of War with China in 2026
Michael T. Klare calls attention to the statements coming out of the U.S. Department of Defense and the upper ranks of Congress these days.
Chris Hedges: Bless the Traitors
Daniel Hale exposed widespread, indiscriminate murder of noncombatants in the global U.S. drone war. He faces ten years in prison while those who oversee these war crimes continue their killing spree.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The War Against Us
THE ANGRY ARAB: How Western Media Came to Mirror That of Gulf Despots
Among the locals in the Middle East who work for foreign media, you won’t find anyone who criticizes Saudi Arabia or supports resistance to Israel, writes As`ad AbuKhalil. They simply won’t be hired.
Sham Surveillance Safeguards Vs. Tucker Carlson
James Bovard skewers the civil liberties watchdog board, calling it the same kind of lap dog as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.