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: Commentary
Pentagon Papers Failed to Stop Media Kowtowing
The revelations of the secret study should have spawned permanent, radical skepticism concerning the candor and competence of U.S. foreign interventions, writes James Bovard.
What Mike Gravel Meant
What I learned from Mike Gravel are lessons ignored, even mocked, by the establishment, writes Joe Lauria.
1967: End of Israel’s ‘Golden Age’ in Africa
Yotam Gidron recalls a time when Israel — before its occupation of the Sinai Peninsula — was diplomatically engaged with Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah and projecting itself as a plucky postcolonial nation.
The Spirit of Carabobo Versus the Threats of Monroe
Simón Bolívar wrote that the United States “seemed predestined by Providence to plague Americas with miseries in the name of liberty,” Vijay Prashad reminds us.
‘What Happened to Glenn Greenwald?’
‘Rules-Based International Order’ Means Washington-Based International Order
U.S. officials babble endlessly about “rules” and the “rules” are literally always tools for the benefit of the U.S., which literally always flouts those “rules” worse than any other government on earth, writes Caity Johnstone.
Craig Murray: Black Ops in the Black Sea
The former British ambassador reacts to news that Russia fired warning shots at a British destroyer on Wednesday that entered the territorial waters of Crimea, still claimed by Ukraine.
The UK’s New Threat to British Journalists
Leakers and reporters could be sent to jail on a hypothesis, writes Richard Norton-Taylor.
High Court Delays as Assange Remains in Jail
Craig Murray says the leisurely approach of the High Court is entirely inappropriate given that an innocent man is suffering the most extreme form of incarceration available in the U.K.