Category: Books

Chris Hedges: PEN America Self-Destructs

In May 2013 Hedges resigned from PEN America when it appointed former State Department official Suzanne Nossel to run it. A decade later, PEN America has become a propaganda arm of the state, including on Julian Assange.

Worthy & Unworthy Victims: Navalny & Lira

While Alexey Navalny’s death commanded 24-hour news coverage, Gonzalo Lira’s  death in Ukraine was virtually ignored. Alan MacLeod on why one death apparently mattered so much more to U.S. corporate media.

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Grand Delusions

This year’s Munich Security Conference was predictably all about the imaginary danger that Russians intend to proceed westward into Europe as soon as they finish in Ukraine.