While Simon Bolivar has been right for 200 years, the U.S. is not doomed: it can and must stop exploiting, impoverishing and killing its neighbors, writes Medea Benjamin.
Plaguing the Americas With Misery in the Name of Liberty
Category: Right Wing
Chris Hedges: The Next Election May Be Our Last
Donald Trump is determined to subvert the midterms. All that can save us, if he succeeds, is a national strike.
Holy Texas
Lawrence Davidson on the problems with the Texas Board of Education’s effort to institutionalize a fundamentalist form of Christianity through public schools.
US Meddling In Brazilian Elections
Alan MacLeod covers Washington’s attempts to put another Bolsonaro in power in Brazil, the most populous country in Latin America and a bulwark against U.S. regional dominance.
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.
Caitlin Johnstone: COINTELPRO 2.0
It seems the United States is looking at a reinvigorated COINTELPRO for the 2020s, this time with police drones and AI-assisted mass surveillance. They know they’re losing their grip. They know that they are vastly outnumbered. They are afraid.
An Indoctrination Plan for US Schools
Alan MacLeod on the billionaire-funded media machine led by a former Israeli spy that is targeting U.S. children with racist, neoconservative, pro-war, pro-business and pro-Israel messaging.
Craig Murray: The Ditching of Nigel Farage
The stranded Reform U.K. Party leader is the most consequential British politician of the 21st century, certainly more important historically than any of the last eight prime ministers. Tony Blair is the only realistic rival.
Interview: Indian Communist Leader Mohammed Salim
Where does the Communist movement go from here? That’s the first question Betwa Sharma asks Mohammed Salim, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Chris Hedges: Trump the God
Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders. Cult leaders are immune from rational and fact-based critique. That’s why all the chatter about fissures in the MAGA universe misreads Trump cultists.