Pine Gap is a garrison outpost dominated by the U.S. imperium that defiles sacred native land and aids Israel in its cleansing conflict against Palestinians, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Much of the political establishment continues to treat Trump’s rise as though it emerged from nowhere, when in reality it was built upon decades of accumulated economic betrayal, writes political scientist Marie Gottschalk.
Biden began recent government-assisted censorship but Trump’s unleashed a return of full-blown McCarthyism in which “communism” is again the greatest menace — as criticism of Iran and Ukraine policy is stifled. Watch the replay.
The U.S. currency is a form of imperial power to discipline economies, finance war and force the Global South to fund its own subordination.
John Mearsheimer discusses with Chris Hedges the balance of power in the Middle East, U.S. military capacity and possible outcomes of the U.S.-Iran War.
As part of a probe of leftwing nonprofits, a congressional committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News, the People’s Forum and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for blacklisting and criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent.
The New Yorker’s account of Biden administration officials’ dealings with Israel after Oct. 7, 2023, leaves one key “takeaway” — they lacked the guts or integrity to stop the Zionist terror machine.
Wes Streeting is now responsible for the military treaty with a country he believes committed war crimes, reports Dania Akkad.
As a legal debate is expanding, the political foundation of unconditional U.S. military support for Israel has entered its most serious crisis in decades, writes Dan Steinbock.
We are experiencing a global outbreak of stupidity that afflicts political elites disproportionally.
Across much of the Global South the old certainties of the IMF’s dogma of austerity models have evaporated. What replaces it must come from the people of Global South.
The pivot of Arab Gulf states away from historical Arab nationalism to Western alignment has sacrificed the Palestinian cause to transactional diplomacy and dynastic preservation, writes M. Reza Behnam.
Eisenhower’s warning that U.S. policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite explains why Washington sustains the war in Ukraine as a unique, live-fire laboratory for AI warfare at scale.
Every year in the for-profit food system, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of food-borne disease.
The entire economic structure is unnatural. The very concepts of capital itself, of company structures, of banking systems, of taxation are each a carefully manufactured construct.
Roger Hallam of Extinction Rebellion discusses his new book and the tools for effective resistance to climate collapse under repressive systems.
A descendant of Tanzania’s first president, Julius Nyerere, tells Old Bailey why he supports Palestine Action and wants to stop Gaza genocide, Phil Miller reports.
Gabriel Accascina says that the international body, in setting up the IAEA in 1957, has addressed the supply side of a dangerous industry before and in the case of fast-growing AI it can do it again.
It seems the United States is looking at a reinvigorated COINTELPRO for the 2020s, this time with police drones and AI-assisted mass surveillance. They know they’re losing their grip. They know that they are vastly outnumbered. They are afraid.