An empire is as good as its military and the U.S. military is in crisis: running out of ammunition; Middle East bases destroyed; volunteers exhausted. Ann Wright, Ray McGovern. 8 pm Tonite.
WATCH: TWTW — ‘A Fraying Empire’
Category: China
HIROSHIMA 81: SCOTT RITTER — Let It Remind Us
By allowing the U.S. nuclear posture to shift away from deterrence toward warfighting, all we guarantee is that eventually there will be a warfighting scenario that uses nuclear weapons. And then we all die.
HIROSHIMA 81: An Appeal to Pope Leo on Nuclear War
U.S. veterans, professors, clergy, writers and peace activists ask Catholic Archbishop John Wester to forward their appeal for emergency diplomacy to stop nuclear war to Pope Leo XIV at Hiroshima 81.
Vijay Prashad: The Long Goodbye to the US Dollar
The U.S. currency is a form of imperial power to discipline economies, finance war and force the Global South to fund its own subordination.
Will Iran Be Another ‘Forever War?’
John Mearsheimer discusses with Chris Hedges the balance of power in the Middle East, U.S. military capacity and possible outcomes of the U.S.-Iran War.
US House Committee Targets Non-Profit Press Freedom
As part of a probe of leftwing nonprofits, a congressional committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News, the People’s Forum and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Vijay Prashad: Imagining a New Way
Across much of the Global South the old certainties of the IMF’s dogma of austerity models have evaporated. What replaces it must come from the people of Global South.
Two and a Half Centuries of War – A Timeline
A list of the wars of the United States in a blood-soaked quarter of a millenium as the nation marked 250 years of independence, domestic suppression and homage to militarism.
Vijay Prashad: Two Ways for East Asia
Contradiction has struck East Asia: the countries most deeply integrated into China’s vibrant economic system are also drawn into military preparations to confront it.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trans–Pacific Paskudniks
Is Beijing preparing for war? Of course: It has no choice. But the war it is bracing to wage is one the United States seems intent on provoking. The Chinese have no other such plans.