Scott Ritter joined Medea Benjamin and Code Pink to urgently lobby members on Capitol Hill to do what they could to stop the U.S. from starting a nuclear war.
WATCH: Ritter Lobbies at Capitol to Avert Nuclear War
Category: Lobbying
From Illegal Israeli Settlements to US Campus Censorship
Alan MacLeod looks into The Network Contagion Research Institute and its new report alleging that Middle Eastern funding of U.S. universities has helped unleash a torrent of anti-Jewish hatred.
How a DC Think Tank Helped Cause the Gaza ‘Deluge’
The premise of WINEP’s agenda was that successive U.S. administrations had paid too much attention to the Palestinian problem and to Arab public opinion, writes As’ad AbuKhalil.
Medicare Advantage Is Neither Medicare Nor an Advantage
Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam, says Wendell Potter, a former health-care executive who helped develop PR and marketing schemes to sell these private insurance plans.
When the US Taxed the Rich
Sam Pizzigati explains why a luxury penthouse in New York stood vacant during the 1940s.
Chris Hedges: Kucinich Memoir Is a Moving Account of a Battle Against Corporate Power
When the “boy mayor” of Cleveland took a stand against privatization of public power, the region’s elites deployed every weapon they had, including attempted assassination.
Former British Minister: ‘Israelis Think They Control the Foreign Office. And They do!’
Matt Kennard reports on revelations of Israeli state influence on U.K. politics in Alan Duncan’s recently published diaries.
Armed & Ignorant in the Land of the Free
Chris Hedges: Israel, the Big Lie
Israel is not exercising “the right to defend itself” in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is carrying out mass murder, aided and abetted by the U.S.
How to Make a Gulf Monarchy All-American
Ben Freeman, Brian Steiner and Leila Riazi report on the Saudi lobby’s move from K Street to Main Street.