The failure of the U.S. health system to provide tests for those who need them goes back to the anthrax attacks in 2001 and the Swine Flu epidemic of 2009 in the “exceptional nation.”
The human tendency to attack each other even when the entire species is under threat, especially as the U.S. goes after China, gives an advantage to viruses, which can even survive a nuclear attack, says Coleen Rowley.
The fallout from the COVID-19 outbreak puts Beijing and Washington on a collision course, writes Pepe Escobar.
Amid a Corona news blackout, Danny Sjursen says Americans are expected to forget, or ignore, that the Iraqi parliament recently asked the U.S. military to leave.
A series of stories loudly proclaim the Russian election meddling narrative but offer no real facts supporting the most sensational claims, writes Gareth Porter.
It’s time to re-think what it means to be prepared to face threats, and what type of political and economic institutions we need to do so, writes Andrew Spannaus.
Viruses and fear of viruses are well known in a region with an ancient history of quarantine, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
COVID-19 calls on us to consider our plundered commons and unite around four truths made conspicuous by the pandemic.
Health industry executives themselves are at risk because they’ve put profit before public health, says Joe Lauria.
Had the Iraq war not killed, injured, displaced hundreds of thousands, the lame circumlocutions of the former vice president regarding his own culpability would be laughable.
Ben Norton reports on the passage of a bipartisan bill that further intensifies the U.S. attack on the Ortega government and received no coverage in the English-language corporate media.
Recent years have taught us that the official responses to crises will ultimately help Wall Street and the markets, while leaving real people behind again, writes Nomi Prins.
The order came after the grand jury investigating WikiLeaks was dismissed, Kevin Gosztola reports.
Now that U.S. officials will be investigated for war crimes, the international court can expect escalating threats and retaliation by the White House, says Marjorie Cohn.
Washington could only safely use a fraction of its arsenal without killing Americans with an unintended adverse series of cascading environmental effects, writes Joshua M. Pearce.
Ida Karlsson reports on the findings of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which analyzed trends in weapons sales over the past five years.
The case of Loujain al-Hathloul and others is embarrassing for MBS, who wants Western allies to consider him a reformer, say Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold.
Ed Holt reports on journalists’ reaction to Igor Matovic’s plan for them to serve as publicly funded watchdogs.
The Establishment uses identity politics to divide those who might otherwise find a united voice and a common cause, writes Jonathan Cook.
It was quite the game-changing plot twist last Friday in Vienna when relatively polite discussions turned into a de facto OPEC+ meltdown.
Ajit Singh reports on the right-wing regime change entity that poses as a grassroots human rights network while seeking to destabilize China.
Eldad Ben Aharon examines the long background to a milestone congressional vote in late 2019 that defied 40 years of precedent.
In two letters obtained by The Grayzone, a pair of chemical weapons inspectors respond to a recent inquiry dismissing them as rogue actors, Aaron Mate reports.
