When wealth concentrates, Sam Pizzigati says we get a society that revolves around the egos of the most affluent among us.
Billionaires Are Lifting Off: Good Riddance
Category: Commentary
Craig Murray: The Decline of Western Power
The really interesting thing about the G7 summit is that it wasn’t interesting. Nobody expected it to change the world, and it won’t.
AFGHANISTAN: Goodbye for Good to a War That Shouldn’t Have Been Fought
Danny Sjursen takes aim at powerful Washingtonian hawks who are trying to push the U.S. back for a third time into Afghanistan.
US Concern for Cuba, Latin America Is Really Spin for Intervention
Tamara Pearson says Washington’s recent discourse is aimed at dressing itself, the bully, as the savior.
THE ANGRY ARAB: From a Lost Generation of Palestinian Resistance — the Life of Ahmad Jibril
As`ad AbuKhalil looks back on a Palestinian who was among a group of leaders to emerge after 1948 and dedicate themselves to liberating their homeland.
Hidden Hand of US Blockade Sparks Cuba Protests
The protests should be understood in the context of a brutal economic war waged by the United States against the island nation for more than 60 years, write Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores.
On the Brink of War with China in 2026
Michael T. Klare calls attention to the statements coming out of the U.S. Department of Defense and the upper ranks of Congress these days.
Sicko UK
Bob Gill describes how an admired public health service is secretly being changed to for-profit American-style “managed care.”
Chris Hedges: Bless the Traitors
Daniel Hale exposed widespread, indiscriminate murder of noncombatants in the global U.S. drone war. He faces ten years in prison while those who oversee these war crimes continue their killing spree.
THE ANGRY ARAB: How Western Media Came to Mirror That of Gulf Despots
Among the locals in the Middle East who work for foreign media, you won’t find anyone who criticizes Saudi Arabia or supports resistance to Israel, writes As`ad AbuKhalil. They simply won’t be hired.