U.S. leaders would rather accept ever-more extreme isolation as the price of power than surrender any of it.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Arc of Decline
Category: U.S.
Pentagon Papers Failed to Stop Media Kowtowing
The revelations of the secret study should have spawned permanent, radical skepticism concerning the candor and competence of U.S. foreign interventions, writes James Bovard.
The Spirit of Carabobo Versus the Threats of Monroe
Simón Bolívar wrote that the United States “seemed predestined by Providence to plague Americas with miseries in the name of liberty,” Vijay Prashad reminds us.
‘What Happened to Glenn Greenwald?’
‘Rules-Based International Order’ Means Washington-Based International Order
U.S. officials babble endlessly about “rules” and the “rules” are literally always tools for the benefit of the U.S., which literally always flouts those “rules” worse than any other government on earth, writes Caity Johnstone.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Sport and Propaganda
John Kiriakou has a problem with the Pentagon using taxpayer money to turn sporting events into nationalistic propaganda.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Perverted Prison Justice
Here’s an example of how the prison rape-elimination law gets violated; and not by other prisoners.
COVID-19: Venezuela Says COVAX Payments Blocked
The country’s vice president says access to the program is being disrupted and calls it a crime.
Washington’s Rebranding of Syrian Al-Qaeda’s Founder
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton present a PBS Frontline special as the latest vehicle in a PR campaign by Beltway think tanks and foreign policy veterans to reposition Mohammad Jolani as an “asset.”
Bipartisan US Attacks on Journalism
Amid revelations of Trump-era spying, Trevor Timm calls out the attempt by Biden’s DOJ to criminalize news gathering in the case against Julian Assange.