U.S. leaders would rather accept ever-more extreme isolation as the price of power than surrender any of it.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Arc of Decline
Category: Books
What Mike Gravel Meant
What I learned from Mike Gravel are lessons ignored, even mocked, by the establishment, writes Joe Lauria.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Michael C Hudson & the Arabs
The late scholar was co-founder of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown, which directly challenged the Zionist narrative and traditional Orientalist teaching, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
Former British Minister: ‘Israelis Think They Control the Foreign Office. And They do!’
Matt Kennard reports on revelations of Israeli state influence on U.K. politics in Alan Duncan’s recently published diaries.
Manufacturing Consent for War
The targets of Washington’s bullets have been leaders who tried to assert their nation’s economic sovereignty, writes Jeremy Kuzmarov in this review of a new book by Vijay Prashad.
Craig Murray: My Day With Prince Philip
Below is the story of a day touring Tema, Ghana, with Prince Philip, in this chapter from Murray’s book The Catholic Orangemen of Togo. The reader may be surprised.
PEPE ESCOBAR: The Slave, The Orator & The Emperor
A trio of Stoics from Ancient Greece offer philosophical opposition to today’s turbo capitalism in this excerpt from “Raging Twenties, Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism.”
The UK Military’s Secrecy Problem
Richard Norton-Taylor says a new book illustrates how the military establishment tries to censor, bully and threaten publishers and journalists.
Chris Hedges: The Evil Within Us
Those who blind themselves to their capacity for evil commit evil not for evil’s sake, but to make a better world. This collective self-delusion is the story of America.
WATCH: CN Live!—New Season, Episode 1: Dissident Intellectual
The premiere episode of Season 3 of CN Live!, looks at the career of Richard Falk, a former UN special rapporteur on Palestine, & an outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy.