Once you get beyond the partisan puppet show, Caitlin Johnstone says you see a single oligarchic empire continuing the same murderous agenda.
Category: American Empire
A Test Case for Biden’s Commitment to Diplomacy
Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold say that Biden should pick one of the nation’s foremost experts on the Middle East to be his Iran envoy.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden is Already Breaking Promises
Tony Blinken will be secretary of state with the élan and faux sophistication the nakedly bankrupt foreign policy requires if the U.S. pantomime is to be sustained another four years.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Machinations in the Gulf
Trump was too busy nursing his grudge to bother with overseas matters, but both his son-in-law and secretary of state rushed through a package of foreign policy initiatives and policies, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
Counter Trumpism By Ending the Conditions That Created It
People actually interested in ending Trumpism would be promoting an end to the corruption, opacity, a uniquely awful electoral system, and to neoliberal policies making Americans poorer and poorer, writes Caity Johnstone.
WATCH: Hedges & Chomsky on the State of the Empire
On his program On Contact, Chris Hedges speaks to Noam Chomsky on terrorism, militarism, media & the state of America’s empire, at home and abroad.
The Making of US Empire at the Beginning of its End
The Future of War in Biden’s America
Pompeo Escapes Without a Scratch
The State Department was meant to be a counterpart to the U.S. War Department, writes Caitlin Johnstone. Instead it wound up as a cheering squad for starvation sanctions, proxy wars and war coalitions.
The Two Faces of Empire
The U.S. empire is ugly and creepy. That’s why so much effort goes into keeping the public from looking at it directly, writes Caitlin Johnstone.