Trump has taken an insane U.S. policy towards Iran and make it even crazier, writes Daniel Lazare.
This reckoning with Beijing’s authority was baked into the cake 22 years ago when the Union Jack came down over Government House.
Episode 6 of CN Live! Whitney Webb’s powerful interview on Epstein and Mark Davis on The Guardian, the NYT, WikiLeaks and the publication of the Afghan War Logs.
As one door bangs shut in Kashmir, another opens in Argentina, writes Vijay Prashad.
The two sides of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)’s Qatar rift are far from reconciling as both accuse the other of supporting terrorism, reports Giorgio Cafiero.
As`ad AbuKhalil reviews Middle East rulers’ reasons for distrusting their own militaries.
Phil Rockstroh muses on how the impulse to possess an unlimited number of firearms fits into the late-imperium scheme of things.
If Jeffrey Epstein’s death turns out to have been self-inflicted, it would represent a complete breakdown in the system that was supposed to protect him.
Craig Murray delves into allegations against Jeffrey Epstein and another suspicious death that the case recalls.
The only problem with the term is the meaningless use of it as a pejorative, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Three scholars look at what can be done for U.S. farms, where bankruptcies were already at a 10-year high before the floods this past spring.
Ronnie Cummins challenges the widely used official estimate of greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. agriculture.
UPDATED: It is verboten to utter his name, but a lawsuit and possible declassification of NSA documents could get to the bottom of the Seth Rich controversy, says Ray McGovern.
Aviva Chomsky reports on the complexities of labor’s response to the Green New Deal and little-known divisions over the plan within the environmental movement.
Given the roll call of high and mighty involved, Michael Brenner inspects the many dead ends investigators are likely to hit.
Craig Murray offers a guide to a judge’s conclusion that claims made as the basis of Russiagate are insufficient to even warrant a hearing.
Robert Parry, founder of this site, exposed in this Jan. 2013 article the dangerous & false idea that the Constitution Framers wrote the 2nd Amendment so an armed population could fight the government the Framers had just created.
The fifth episode of CN Live! discussed the latest on Julian Assange and the problem of guns in America.
The gun lobby has hijacked the Second Amendment, which was intended for citizen militias to provide domestic “security” without a standing army. The amendment is a dangerous relic, never clearer than after El Paso and Dayton, writes Joe Lauria.
About the only thing the Defense of Democracies’ founder does not love about war is fighting it himself, writes Daniel McAdams.