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The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions. New window dressing will not end oligarchy.
Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky call for an investigation of the failure of the governments of Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi and others to break the chain of the infection.
Caroline Wagner responds to the arrest of MIT engineering professor Gang Chen earlier this month.
Joe Biden’s order directs the office of the attorney general to “not renew Department of Justice contracts with privately operated criminal detention facilities.”
Once you get beyond the partisan puppet show, Caitlin Johnstone says you see a single oligarchic empire continuing the same murderous agenda.
Trump was too busy nursing his grudge to bother with overseas matters, but both his son-in-law and secretary of state rushed through a package of foreign policy initiatives and policies, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.