This is just the latest in Canberra’s continually expanding policy of feeding vast fortunes into Washington’s standoff with Beijing at the expense of its own people, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Critics decry the White House’s decision to release millions in aid that is supposed to be subject to human-rights conditions.
Nadya Tannous identifies opportunities for challenging Israel’s bedrock claim on U.S. regional priorities.
UPDATED: The new U.S.-U.K-Australia military pact can be seen as a further indication of the nervousness in Washington, London and Canberra over the further decline of Anglo-Saxon power, writes Joe Lauria.
For the implications of U.S. global power, the collapse of Kabul was incomparably worse than the fall of Saigon, writes Alfred W. McCoy.
Corporate behemoths such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing and General Dynamics have been hoovering up much of that money, according to this analysis.
America’s failure to heed Eisenhower’s warning about the military industrial complex can be blamed on U.S. democracy itself, writes Lawrence Davidson.
It now stands for torture chambers and car bombs, writes As`ad AbuKhalil. But there was a time when Ba’athists could have inherited the mantle of Nasser and the cause of Arab unity.
James W. Carden interviews scholar and journalist Anatol Lieven on the U.S. legacy and the Taliban’s Rise.
Poverty, war, social despair and climate change: Vijay Prashad says this system has no solution to the problems it creates.
The hijackers who carried out the attacks on 9/11, like all radical jihadist groups in the Middle East, spoke to the U.S. in the murderous language it taught them.
When Western media discusses terrorism against the West, such as 9/11, the motive is almost always left out, even when the terrorists state they are avenging longstanding Western violence in the Muslim world, reports Joe Lauria.
Wars were planned, writes Caitlin Johnstone. And the public was psychologically brutalized into accepting them.
The psychic wound of 9/11 is what grieves America; it inflames its collective passion for vengeance, writes Michael Brenner.
The mass murder of Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, spawned a larger tragedy for others, writes Mitchell Zimmerman.
The Global North has already taken the planet to the threshold of annihilation before countries of the Global South have been able to attain basic needs, writes Vijay Prashad.
With communities across the country in dire need of investment, Lindsay Koshgarian says the case for avoiding more pointless wars couldn’t be clearer.
There appears to be a power struggle behind Mullah Akhund’s appointment, writes Ali A. Olomi.
Rosa Miriam Elizalde reflects on U.S. restrictions on flights and remittances as a result of Biden’s continuation of Trump-era policies, which are compounding the hardships of the pandemic.
