American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires.
Category: American Empire
ELECTION 2020: War Profiteers, Chickenhawks & Consultants
The members of the incoming president’s agency review teams are a rebuke to the idea of a Biden administration getting pushed left, writes Kevin Gosztola.
The Korean War’s Forgotten Lessons on the Evil of Intervention
The secrecy and deceit surrounding U.S. war crimes has had catastrophic consequences in this century, writes James Bovard.
It’s Time for the US to Face Up to Its War Crimes
Australia had to reveal heinous crimes its troops committed in Afghanistan, even after it prosecuted a whistleblower and raided a TV station. It’s time for the U.S. to launch serious investigations of its own conduct in war, writes Joe Lauria.
Did the US Commit War Crimes in Afghanistan?
U.S. forces and the CIA are alleged to have carried out unlawful killings and torture, both in Afghanistan and through the secret “rendition” of terrorist suspects, but the U.S. has taken measures to frustrate any prosecution of its troops.
ELECTION 2020: Biden Appointee Advocated Using Propaganda Against Americans
Richard Stengel signals the Biden administration’s coming escalation of suppression of online media that are seen to threaten U.S. imperatives abroad, writes Ben Norton.
ELECTION 2020: More Humane Cages?
On War, Trump Has Largely Been an Appeaser
William J. Astore says the president isn’t ending these wars. He’s merely reducing the number of boots on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A Typical Democratic Official on the Pentagon & War–as DOD Confirms Iraq, Afghanistan Withdrawal
William J. Astore takes on Jeh Johnson’s opposition to any haste in bringing troops home from the nearly two-decade-long war in Afghanistan, before Pentagon confirmed Wednesday Iraq and Afghan withdrawals.
Trump Rushes to Auction Off Arctic Drilling Rights
The pristine reserve is home to the Gwich’in people, who call it “Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit,” or, “the sacred place where life begins.”