Natalia Marques responds to a property developer’s recent call for more “pain” in the U.S. economy by highlighting what happened after pandemic-era aid ended.
US Sees Highest Ever Increase in Poverty
Category: Commentary
If the Facts Come Out, it Could Spell the End for Joe Biden
Four years ago Thursday, Ray McGovern wrote Establishment media was in a frenzy about the hoped-for downfall of Trump, but if the facts came out, it could be Joe Biden’s downfall instead. The facts are now coming out.
Jeffrey Sachs: NATO Expansion & Ukraine’s Destruction
Ukraine is being destroyed by U.S. arrogance, proving again Henry Kissinger’s adage that to be America’s enemy is dangerous, while to be its friend is fatal.
US Can’t Deal with Defeat
In the U.S., the strongest collective memory of America’s wars of choice is the desirability – and ease – of forgetting them. So it will be when we look at a ruined Ukraine in the rear-view mirror, writes Michael Brenner.
British Press Sides with Power Against Assange
Peter Oborne contrasts the free-press cause celebre that arose after the British phone-hacking scandal to the silence and hostility engulfing the far more consequential case of the WikiLeaks publisher.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Question About Biden
In the wake of Zelensky’s wildly provocative statements, it is time to question whether the U.S. president has a personal interest in prolonging the war in Ukraine.
Chris Hedges: R2P Caused Libya’s Nightmare
NATO’s military 2011 intervention, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe.
Patrick Lawrence: Unsweet Dreams
The Ukraine question hung over the recent G20 summit even though members have repeatedly signaled their wish to avoid the new cold war that Biden and his foreign-policy people are building.
The ‘Biden Phase’ of the Ukraine War
Zelensky’s visit to the White House this week comes at a defining moment, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, as the war in Ukraine has intertwined with the problems of the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Animal-Grade Prison Food Indicts US Society
Prisoners in the U.S. face chronic hunger and illness due to substandard and disgusting food, as new Bureau of Prisons director Collette Peters reportedly battles bureaucracy to reform the system.