It’s disturbing for Danny Sjursen to witness veterans in Congress supporting the Afghan War by far wider margins than combat-comrades back in their districts.
In January Consortium News sent a libel notice to Global News demanding a retraction and apology. The TV network refused. On Tuesday CN filed suit in Virginia.
Defendants would be able to testify about their reason for engaging in the prohibited conduct, Kevin Gosztola reports.
The documents also shine light on the British program to train and arm rebel groups, including extremist jihadists, Ben Norton reports.
Shhhh, don’t tell Americans about the Blue Leaks and the Syria PR Leaks. The mainstream media’s virtual blackout must mean they aren’t supposed to know.
The Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences was awarded on Monday to American economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson. But Carolin Benack warns not to really think of economics as a science, but more like writing novels.
Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria was interviewed by BreakThrough News, and he laid out the essential information about WikiLeaks‘ publisher Julian Assange’s extradition case. (9 minutes)
The financial response to the pandemic lies with the digital giants, the champions of tax evasion, writes Léonce Ndikumana. He also recommends raising taxes on companies benefiting from the virus, such as the pharmaceutical sector.
Andrew Latham begins with the Antonine and Cyprian twin plagues, which ravaged the Roman Empire and gave rise to Christianity.
Oct. 9 — the date in 1967 when Che Guevara was murdered — should be celebrated as the International Day to Abolish the CIA, writes Vijay Prashad.
It’s just the latest in a series of bogus national security-related coverage by the U.S. newspaper of record, writes Ben Norton.
The prospect of far-right vigilantes heading into the streets to contest the results of the November election has even mainstream institutions worried, writes John Feffer.
The current kerfuffle began a week ago when the director of national intelligence dropped a bombshell on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Commission on Presidential Debates is a major cause of lowest common- denominator politics, writes John Buell.
The vice president, who debates Kamala Harris tonight, ranks high as a Christian soldier marching with Trump on all major policy issues, which routinely put business interests ahead of human lives, writes Norman Solomon.
John Negroponte, the Darth Vader of U.S. foreign policy, and a bevy of Republican former intelligence and interventionists have their reasons for liking the former VP.
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Events of the past week show the Continent restoring some of its pre-1945 independence from U.S. hegemony.
If Trump loses in November the National Security State will get away with unconscionable misbehavior in the monitoring of campaign aide Carter Page. And if he wins…
All fascist and totalitarian movements paper over their squalid belief systems with the veneer of religious morality.