Robert Parry wrote: Dec. 9 has a grim meaning for the U.S. Republic, the date in 2004 when Gary Webb was driven to ruin by vindictive colleagues, demarcating when the U.S. press went from protecting people to shielding corruption.
Greg Grandin provides a short history of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.
Every dictatorship is a grotesque opera buffa. No encomium is too outrageous. No bribe too small. No violation of civil liberties too extreme. No stupidity too absurd. All dissent, no matter how tepid, is treason.
The White House’s murderous strikes on small boats at sea constitute unlawful extrajudicial killings, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Here are seven theses to begin to understand the protests that young people have led across the world and perhaps channel them in a progressive direction.
Michelle Ellner on the Trump administration’s use of Puerto Rico as a launchpad for war on Venezuela.
Berta Cáceres, a Honduran leader in the struggle for indigenous and environmental rights, was killed in 2016 – a price too often paid by those who fight for human dignity and social justice.
L.A. protests led demonstrations across the country against Trump and his aggressive immigration policy Saturday, while in D.C. veterans and other citizens protested Trump’s military parade, Joe Lauria & Ann Wright report.
John Perry reviews the book AMERICA, AMÉRICA: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin.
The multipolar world will be born when the geopolitical weight of Asia, Africa, and Latin America matches their rising economic weight.