Exclusive: Sen. John McCain is baiting President Obama for making America “look weak” and is demanding more aggressive responses toward Syria, Iran and Russia. Thus, Obama faces a turning-point moment when he must confront neocon warmongering or surrender to it, reports Robert…
Much Bank Crime, Little Punishment
Neocons Have Weathered the Storm
Time for CIA’s Brennan to Go
How ‘Looking Forward’ Tripped Up Obama
Sen. Feinstein: Accidental ‘Whistleblower’
How Reagan Enforced US Hypocrisy
The West’s ‘War on Democracy’
Across the Western world, there has been a clamping down on meaningful dissent, including secret information that is withheld from the public in the name of national security. And there has been a failure to contest this assault on democracy,…
The Flaw in ‘Cornering’ Russia
Dangerous ‘Toughness’ on Ukraine
Crimea’s Case for Leaving Ukraine
Exclusive: Virtually everyone in Official Washington is condemning Russian “aggression” in Ukraine and demanding a belligerent U.S. response to Crimea’s desire to secede and join Russia, as a new Cold War hysteria grips U.S. pols and pundits, reports Robert Parry.
Biased US Media Attacks RT ‘Bias’
Explaining US Hypocrisy on Ukraine
The Sanctions Madness on Russia
Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hitler’ Overreach
Senior U.S. politicians, including Hillary Clinton and John McCain, are unleashing the “Hitler analogy” and siccing it on Russian President Putin in a reckless display of hyperbole, one with a troubling history of justifying unnecessary wars, writes Norman Solomon.
The ‘We-Hate-Putin’ Group Think
The Conundrum of ‘Democratic’ Coups
The U.S. government says it wants to spread “democracy,” a questionable claim considering the history. Think Iran-1953, Guatemala-1954, Chile-1973, Haiti-1991/2004, etc. Just this past year, the U.S. has embraced coups against elected presidents in Egypt and now Ukraine, as Lawrence Davidson observes.