As`ad AbuKhalil analyzes the crisis besetting a king whose country has lost strategic significance under his reign.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Jordan’s Precarious Throne
Category: Until This Day–Historical Perspectives on the News
Craig Murray: My Day With Prince Philip
Below is the story of a day touring Tema, Ghana, with Prince Philip, in this chapter from Murray’s book The Catholic Orangemen of Togo. The reader may be surprised.
People-to-People Projects Build Israeli Impunity
Yara Hawari details how citizen-diplomacy legislation passed by U.S. Congress in December undermines Palestinian rights.
DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Imperialism of Foolery
Pro-Western Syrian exiles have issued a diatribe against the most informative critics of U.S. war policy at a time when Washington’s aggressiveness is reaching new levels of intensity.
Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale’s Guilty Plea
Prosecuting journalists’ sources as spies under the Espionage Act chills news-gathering and hurts the public interest, press-freedom advocates warn.
In WWII British Special Forces Were More Transparent Than Today
Researchers have unearthed long-forgotten ministerial statements to show how Whitehall’s culture of secrecy deepened in the late 1980s, Murray Jones and Phil Miller report.
The Liberal Contempt for Martin Luther King’s Final Year
This Sunday, on the anniversary of his assassination, few will recall Dr. King’s condemnation of U.S. militarism, write Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon.
Requiem for the ‘American Century’
As the longest U.S. war winds down in Afghanistan, Andrew Bacevich says vows of “never again” can only be taken seriously when Americans call imperialism by its name.
COVID-19: People Gave Up on Flu Pandemic Measures a Century Ago When They Tired of Them – and Paid a Price
If we have anything to learn from the history of the 1918 influenza pandemic, it is that a premature return to pre-pandemic life risks more cases and more deaths, writes J. Alexander Navarro.
Washington’s Delusion of Endless World Dominion
Like the British establishment of the 1950s, current leaders of U.S. foreign policy have been on top of the world for so long that they’ve forgotten how they got there, writes Alfred W. McCoy.