U.S. President Donald Trump aired frustrations that his efforts to end the Ukraine war are not working with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The matrix is getting complicated, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.
Intrigue — and Confusion — Reign Over Ukraine
Category: Column
Chris Hedges: Trump’s War on America
The latest Presidential memo, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” is to be a preemptive war against those individuals and institutions which threaten Trump’s absolute grip on power.
AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Will the US Push Lebanon to Civil War?
As the balance of power shifts in the Middle East, pressure from Israel and Saudi Arabia may spark a Lebanese civil war.
Vijay Prashad: An Intellectual Is Nothing Without Confronting Oppression
Berta Cáceres, a Honduran leader in the struggle for indigenous and environmental rights, was killed in 2016 – a price too often paid by those who fight for human dignity and social justice.
Free Speech and Its Discontents
A government that can silence the speech you hate today can silence the speech you love tomorrow, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.
Hedges Report: We Are All Antifa Now
The designation of the amorphous group antifa as a terrorist organization allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of antifa and prosecute them as terrorists.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Our Age of Unreason
We have lost that connection between reason and morality …. We have decisively lost our idea of the commonweal as the anchor from which reason will make its case.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Out-of-Control Gov’t Targets Business ‘Whistleblowers’
The FTC targeted businessman James Douvas for ruin in $216 million lawsuit. It’s yet another case of federal officials with too much power, an unlimited budget, and a need for a scalp.
Vijay Prashad: Can Mexico’s Dignity Be Restored?
With the promise of the Mexican revolution and the sweeping reforms of cardenismo long erased by decades of neoliberalism can sovereignty be restored to the country?
Patrick Lawrence: The State of the ‘State of Palestine’
The upcoming United Nations General Assembly may show whether those nations who have pledged to support a Palestinian state really mean business.