Category: Analysis

Rooting Out the Root Causes in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump on the phone Monday the Ukraine war can only end after addressing its “root causes,” which the Western media have been tirelessly rooting out of public discussion since the war began, says Joe Lauria.

Chris Hedges: The New Dark Age

The Nazis are scapegoats for a Western heritage of mass slaughter, as if genocides in the Americas, Africa and India are  mere historical footnotes. In fact, genocide is the currency of Western domination.

Medhurst Case: Test of a Turning Tide on Gaza

British police have given the Crown Prosecution Service the file on journalist Richard Medhurst in a test of how far Western governments will go to continue defending Israel’s monstrous atrocities in Gaza, writes Joe Lauria.

Who Defeated the Nazis? A Colloquy

Russia destroyed more than 40,000 German tanks from June 1941 to November 1944. By the time the Allies came ashore at Normandy, the Germans had already lost the war, writes Scott Ritter. Larry Wilkerson responds. 

Jonathan Cook: Shilling for Israel’s Genocide

These shills are as morally culpable as the court historians who in 1930s Germany denounced those who opposed the extermination of Jews, Romanies, Communists, the disabled and gays as anti-Aryan racists. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net Anyone who at this point…

Chris Hedges: Trumpland

The dynamiting, by the Trump administration, of decayed and corrupt institutions will mark the end of the American experiment and the shift from inverted totalitarianism to dictatorship.