The Congressional Budget Office charts a more rational approach to U.S. military spending, write Mandy Smithberger and William D. Hartung. But the proposed $1 trillion in savings should only be a starting point.
President Joe Biden wants to lecture other countries to make huge commitments to combat climate change while he brings a poor U.S. record to the Glasgow conference, writes Joe Lauria.
Two different kinds of activities are being blurred by using the same word, writes Jonathan Cook. And a lot hangs on how we use the term.
Biden wants to keep secret what is already well-known, that Abu Zubaydah was tortured, reports Marjorie Cohn.
Lisa Graves says appointees at the highest levels are deploying the disaster capitalism playbook from inside the U.S. Postal Service.
The authors say that Democrats’ plans to make the wealthy pay a little more will barely dent America’s long slide from progressive taxation.
Consortium News delivers first-rate journalism that bursts the myths that U.S. elites depend on to fool people into supporting their designs.
The perplexing overuse of the word is a testament to the vitriol with which Americans now conduct political discussions.
Critics decry the White House’s decision to release millions in aid that is supposed to be subject to human-rights conditions.
