The destruction over the past five years of Australia’s mutually beneficial diplomatic and trade relationship with China was probably a successful “Five Eyes” information warfare operation, writes Tony Kevin.
Either the national security adviser-designate and other “exceptionalists” are true believers, or rank cynics driven by ambition and enough intelligence or charisma to say what’s needed to justify U.S. aggression, says Danny Sjursen.
The former president’s deception and warmongering killed the “hope and change” he promised on the campaign trail, writes James Bovard.
Cassandra Stimpson and Holly Zhang report on the world of constant military-buildup promotion led by those who would gain most from it.
Craig Murray says atavism and racism are the easiest way to political success, despite the demonstrably catastrophic consequences.
Any thought of Biden and his people riding into town on white horses to save the nuclear deal is strictly naïve.
Jim Bovard urges Trump to open the files to provide activism ammo for the vast numbers of Americans who vehemently oppose forever wars.
Considering the think-tank imperialists in the bunch Biden is naming to direct U.S. foreign policy, Danny Sjursen expects little to change in the essence of the war-state.
The members of the incoming president’s agency review teams are a rebuke to the idea of a Biden administration getting pushed left, writes Kevin Gosztola.
The secrecy and deceit surrounding U.S. war crimes has had catastrophic consequences in this century, writes James Bovard.