Food as a Spearhead for Gentrification October 14, 2021 Longtime residents find themselves forced to compete against the “urban food machine,” writes Pascale Joassart-Marcelli. Read more →
On Pausing Acknowledgement of Indigenous Land October 13, 2021 Three anthropologists explain why land acknowledgments and the related welcoming ritual can help erase history. Read more →
NATO’s Plans to Hack Your Brain October 13, 2021 NATO is spinning out an entirely new kind of combat it has branded cognitive warfare, Ben Norton reports. Read more →
The Fake ‘Facebook Whistleblower’ October 12, 2021 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. Read more →
The Tough-Guy, Hard-Ball, Syndrome October 11, 2021 It’s a matter of substance as much as form, writes Michael Brenner. And it helps explain the self-imposed lobotomy of the U.S. foreign policy establishment in recent years. Read more →
What Does India Get Out of ‘Quad’ Membership? October 11, 2021 Behind the rhetoric about the Indo-Pacific and open seas is the U.S. play in Southeast Asia, writes Prabir Purkayastha. Read more →
Biden Tells Supreme Court Torture Is a State Secret October 10, 2021 Biden wants to keep secret what is already well-known, that Abu Zubaydah was tortured, reports Marjorie Cohn. Read more →
Watching Taliban-Tajikistan Relations October 8, 2021 Both sides are using the current tension for their own ends, writes Vijay Prashad. Read more →
Never Having to Say You’re Sorry October 8, 2021 Karen J. Greenberg says the past two decades have seen no accountability for the lawless U.S. policies of the war on terror. Read more →
CHRIS HEDGES: The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State October 7, 2021 Imprisoning the David to Chevron’s Goliath is the latest outrage by a U.S. judiciary now engineered to favor the interests of capital. Read more →