In case after case, conflicts initiated or intensified by the United States appeared to subside, only to reemerge in new, more volatile forms, writes Eric Ross as he assesses the price of empire and the costs of war on Iran.
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Category: Arts
Vijay Prashad: Senegal on the Edge of Collapse
Burdened by decades of neocolonialism and corruption, Senegal faces an all-too-familiar dilemma faced by countries across the Global South: how to pursue sovereign development under the weight of debt.
Hedges Report: The US in Freefall
Chris Hedges and Ahmed Eldin discuss the propagandistic purpose that corporate media serves in the age of the American-Israeli project of genocidal colonialism.
Iran, Epstein & Human Sacrifice
Journey to the center of the world of American leaders’ madness and ruin, writes Dennis Kucinich, to see desperate Iranian parents picking through rubble, searching for any signs of their little girls.
Chris Hedges: Hiding ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’
The film masterfully exposes the impulse towards power, death and destruction that the Israeli military embodies.
A Monster Movie Takes On US Militarism
Earth’s Greatest Enemy gives antiwar and climate activists a film in which to find common ground against the Pentagon, writes Corinna Barnard.
Vijay Prashad: Bombs That Polish the Skulls of the Dead
With New START now expired, the United States’ withdrawal from arms control treaties and its embrace of nuclear “warfighting” doctrines are raising the risk of catastrophic conflict between nuclear powers.
WATCH: ‘Arrest Herzog!’
This was the peaceful rally opposing the Israeli president’s visit to Sydney, Australia last week that police then viciously attacked. A full-length film by Cathy Vogan.
Israel on the Brink
Amid the largest genocide of this century in Gaza and the violent ethnic cleansing on the West Bank, two prominent Jewish historians believe that one democratic secular state in Palestine is not only achievable but inevitable, writes Stefan Moore.
WATCH: The World This Week, Episode 3
The World This Week looks at Trump’s new threats against Iran, his tendency to chicken out, and a tribute to the great Michael Parenti, with Joe Lauria and Patrick Lawrence.