For the first time since the early 20th century, the Lebanese people are talking about famine, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Silence Over Lebanon’s Suffering
Category: Commentary
UPRISING: Police, Prisons & the Pentagon
In the era of Covid-19, climate change and an increased focus on longstanding structural racism, a new approach to “security” is desperately needed, writes William D. Hartung.
In an Insane World, Madness Looks Moderate & Sanity Looks Radical
Caitlin Johnstone targets status quo bias, arguing that this psychological glitch reinforces the U.S.-centralized empire and blocks the way to necessary change.
Annexation of West Bank Will Only Deepen Israel’s Apartheid Policies
Understanding Netanyahu’s Political Survival
Nijmeh Ali offers a guide to the Israeli right wing, its internal conflicts and the prime minister’s model of one-man rule.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Embracing the Equality of Nations
The decline of the West should come as no surprise, yet the U.S. still wages a ferocious fight against the prospect of equality among nations.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Not the Year for Fireworks
For so many reasons, this Fourth of July left me cold.
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.
BOUNTYGATE: Scapegoating Systemic Military Failure in Afghanistan
The story of the alleged “bounty scheme” grew up in the context of top U.S. brass blaming Russia for America’s defeat in Afghanistan, says Scott Ritter.
America’s Two Right-Wing Parties Absurdly Keep Accusing Each Other Of Being Far-Left
It’s insane that both U.S. mainstream political parties are attacking one another as being far-left extremists because by global standards they are both very much right-wing parties, says Caitlin Johnstone.