The U.S. president ignores the crisis in Cuba at his own peril, writes Medea Benjamin.
Category: Obama Administration
COVID-19: Fauci Backed Strengthening of Viruses Despite Admitting Risk of Pandemic, Australian Newspaper Reports
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. virus expert, acknowledged the risk of a pandemic from an accidental leak of a fortified virus but supported the research anyway, The Australian newspaper has reported.
Never-Ending Guantánamo & Forever Wars
The True Meaning of the Afghan ‘Withdrawal’
300,000 Deported in Biden’s First 100 Days
A rights group warns that the U.S. president is “well on track to repeat” Obama’s failures.
The Bogus Argument for Keeping US in Afghanistan
It goes back to Obama’s decision to re-enter Iraq in 2014, writes Caitlin Johnstone. And Westerners were fed a lie about what happened there.
How US Official Secrets Act Ensnared Julian Assange
If the U.S. wins its appeal, Julian Assange will face prosecution under a severe espionage law with roots in the British Official Secrets Act that is part of a history of repression of press freedom, reports Joe Lauria.
Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale’s Guilty Plea
Prosecuting journalists’ sources as spies under the Espionage Act chills news-gathering and hurts the public interest, press-freedom advocates warn.
Examining the Stasi, Seeing the NSA
From the Archives: For many years, the East German Stasi was viewed as the most totalitarian of intelligence services, relentlessly spying on its citizens during the Cold War. But the Stasi’s capabilities pale in comparison to what the NSA can…
Into the Memory Hole
Erasure or sublimation of memory makes it easier to shape the present by controlling or editing history. Doing so preserves a mythic version of a country’s identity, postulates Michael Brenner.