A dark secret behind the Hiroshima bomb is where the uranium came from, a spy-vs.-spy race to secure naturally enriched uranium from Congo to fuel the Manhattan Project and keep the rare mineral out of Nazi hands, reports Joe Lauria.
“Any opportunity that I get, I will speak out” — Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters on the imperatives of love and resistance in the face of repression.
Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions.
There were two other original sins, rarely mentioned, that drove the colonial ruling class to separate from their country and support a war for independence, writes Ace Thelin.
In her forthcoming report, U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese will detail how Palestine has been exploited by global capitalism and explain the role certain corporations have played in the genocide.
The term “Anthropocene” implies that humans — as an undifferentiated whole — have created the ecological crisis. This downplays the role of the capitalist system and its class and national divides.
The U.S. not only has zero interest in peace, it is engaging in morally abhorrent levels of dishonesty and deception, attacking under a false flag of truce.
“Loyal to the orthodoxies imposed by employers” — Patrick Lawrence discusses the deterioration of journalism, the concern of his latest book.
Thomas Paine writes that a despotic government is a fungus that grows out of a corrupt civil society. This is what happened to past societies. It is what happened to us.
If military drones are “revolutionizing” instruments, then wherever we are, we are in a field of battle.