In the second part of her coverage of the Australian Defence Department’s new Frigates project, Michelle Fahy says it is a jobs merry-go-round for former military officers, bureaucrats and weapons makers.
Sinking Billions: Revolving Doors
Category: U.S.
Multipolar Maneuvering in Indo-Pacific
Amid growing trade and economic cooperation in the region, M.K. Bhadrakumar looks at how smaller countries there are trying to steer clear of Washington’s attempts to cause friction between them and China.
The US’s Reckless Arming of Taiwan
As Washington follows the neocon Wolfowitz Doctrine in East Asia, John V. Walsh says U.S. provocation must stop. Biden should instead take up China’s offer of peaceful coexistence.
US Funds Invest in Nuclear & Cluster Bombs
Some of the largest corporate retirement funds are among the most heavily invested in weapons banned under international law, finds a corporate accountability watchdog.
Oppenheimer’s Posthumous Exoneration
When AEC hearings that ended the physicist’s security clearance were declassified, historians were amazed they contained virtually no damning evidence against him, writes Robert C. Koehler.
In Heat & Smoke, US Workers Fight Negligent Bosses
As wildfires, drought, floods and scorching heat disrupt the supply chain, workers are bearing the brunt, writes Caitlyn Clark.
Kerry Nixes US Climate Damages for Poor Countries
“No, under no circumstances” — With his comments to Congress, the climate envoy signaled that Washington has no plans to start providing its fair share when it comes to the emerging loss and damage fund.
Inscrutable Sanctions
Britain and the U.S. impose economic sanctions on dozens of governments they don’t like, write Erik Mar and John Perry. Some people in Nicaragua are being targeted on the basis of little or no evidence.
US ‘Disinformation Industry’ Lands in Court
It took years too long, writes Patrick Lawrence. But the law has at last been invoked against the creeping despotism of mainstream liberals as they attempt to control what we read, see, hear, and by way of all this, think.
Remilitarized Germany Playing Long Game in Ukraine
There is always something volatile about a handicapped Great Power when a whole new intensity appears in political, economic and historical circumstances, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.