There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape of mendacious conformity.
JOHN PILGER: We Are Spartacus
Category: Afghanistan
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Do You Condemn Israel?
The author confronts Western leaders and media for treating the Middle East region with ignorance, racism and disregard for Arab suffering.
Chris Hedges: The Exterminators
Genocide lies at the core of Western imperialism. It is not unique to Israel. It is not unique to the Nazis. It is the building block of Western domination.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: A Victimizers’ Memorial
Another war memorial is being planned for the National Mall in Washington. This one is for the 9/11 era and it is being chaired by none other than George W. Bush.
The Many Lessons of Ukraine War
Combatting Russia to the last Ukrainian was always an odious strategy, writes Chas W. Freeman in this expansive overview.
Israeli Propaganda on Muslim Womens’ Rights
Tel Aviv and Washington try to hijack the internal social and political struggles of Arab and Muslim societies for their own sinister reasons, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Journalism Itself Locked Up in Belmarsh
It’s not just a man who is imprisoned for the crime of good journalism, but also the idea that anyone should be permitted to expose the criminality of the world’s most powerful and tyrannical people, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Jeffrey Sachs: Beyond the Neocon Debacle in Ukraine
Four events have shattered NATO’s drive for enlargement eastward. Now, decisions by the U.S. and Russia will matter enormously for the entire world’s peace, security and wellbeing.
Jail Blair, Bush & Cheney First
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.