A system that is seemingly based on ability has become the new means for exclusion, writes Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
Category: Books
An Age in Need of Heroes
The Establishment creates wars and quagmires that require people of integrity, courage, and nobility to waste their talents saving people whom the Establishment assigns to the role of cannon-fodder, writes Vladimir Golstein.
Bolton Weaves a Tall Tale in His Venezuela Chapter
Four major sanctions over 10 months that crippled the Venezuelan economy are hardly indicative of an administration that, in Bolton’s words “vacillated and wobbled,” writes Leonardo Flores.
THE ANGRY ARAB: ‘The 1967 Defeat’ Industry
As`ad AbuKhalil questions why Arab destiny should be tied to a war that took place more than 50 years ago.
Bolton’s Memoir Undercuts Hype as Impeachment’s Would-Be Star Witness
Aaron Maté reports on John Bolton’s controversial new book and finds that Bolton would have had little evidence to present had he testified at Trump’s impeachment hearing.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Bolton’s Book Is Good to Go
You don’t have to like the former national security adviser to see why his book, after surviving top-security clearance, should be published.
Epstein Case: Documentaries Won’t Touch Tales of Intel Ties
Two new documentaries on the Jeffery Epstein affair delve into lurid details & give voice to his victims, but both scratch the surface of the political & intelligence dimensions of the scandal, writes Elizabeth Vos.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Distorting the Iranian-Saudi Conflict
Kim Ghattas’s new book ‘Black Wave’ is getting rave reviews, but As`ad AbuKhalil calls it pure empire advocacy.
Foiling Predictions, Russians Did Not Go Hungry After 2014
Natylie Baldwin, in this excerpt from her new book, describes what happened after the U.S. and EU sought to punish Moscow with agricultural sanctions.
A Circle in the Darkness: Post-War Europe
Diana Johnstone’s newly-published memoir offers an incisive, gritty, politically alert, and expansive account of post-war Europe, reports Patrick Lawrence in this interview with the author.