The U.S. president isn’t trying to fool the Chinese government about the military buildup in the Pacific. His comments are aimed at the Western public and U.S. allies.
Caitlin Johnstone: Biden Lies About ‘Not Surrounding’ China
PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Yellen in the China Shop
Given where the Biden regime sets the bar for its trans–Pacific statecraft these days, you have to wonder whether they chant “Limbo lower now!” as they send off the next official on one of these pointless demarches.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Murder of ‘Whitey’ Bulger
The Bureau of Prison’s treatment of the former Mob boss, who was 89 at the time of his death, was at least incompetent and perhaps criminal.
How to Eradicate Poverty
China did not eradicate absolute poverty by cash transfer schemes or rural medical programmes alone, writes Vijay Prashad.
Biden Administration, Censorship, Commentary, Denmark, Julian Assange, Press Freedom, Secrecy, U.S., War Crimes, WikiLeaks
Chris Hedges: Media Abandon Assange & Slit Their Own Throats
The failure by journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news media.
SCOTT RITTER: NATO Summit, a Theater of the Absurd
The unfulfilled goals and objectives from last year’s meeting in Madrid loom over the Atlantic military alliance. When the membership meets in Vilnius this week, normalizing failure might best describe the most that can be accomplished.
American Empire, Commentary, Middle East, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
The New ‘New World’
What happens when reality hits delusion? U.S. mythology and fantasy will remain resilient. Denial, doubling-down, scapegoating, recrimination and more audacious adventures are the instinctive responses, writes Michael Brenner.
US Has a Power Disconnection Crisis
Utilities can shut off electricity for an alarming number of Americans for nonpayment in a heat wave, write Sanya Carley and David Konisky.
Commentary, Human Rights, Immigration, Income Inequality, Labor, Police Brutality, Politics, United Kingdon
The Hidden Politics of the UK Immigration Debate
There is no culture war over immigration in the normally understood sense, writes Arun Kundnani. Rather, there is a strange and hidden class war being fought out on the terrains of race and culture.
Prigozhin’s War
UPDATED: Putin met with Prigozhin five days after the rebellion as analysts differ on why it happened. It is an episode with lessons to be learned for both Russia and the West, writes Joe Lauria.
Biden Administration, Commentary, Foreign Policy, Iran, Iran-Contra, Latin America, Middle East, Nicaragua, Propaganda, The Bush-43 Administration, Trump Administration, U.S., Venezuela
Caitlin Johnstone: Return of a Disgraced Neocon
That U.S. presidents keep hiring someone so tyrannical, corrupt and murderous tells you everything you need to know about the nature of U.S. foreign policy.
Hiroshima Survivors Decry Link to Pearl Harbor
A U.S.-Japan “sister peace park” agreement angers representatives of the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Japan, who want Washington to admit the “A-bomb did not end the war and save the lives of American soldiers.”
Assange extradition, Biden Administration, Britain, Censorship, Intelligence, Julian Assange, Legal, Media, Politics, Press Freedom, WikiLeaks
WATCH: The Death of Journalism
Chris Hedges, Stella Assange and Matt Kennard discuss the implications of the Julian Assange case and the demise of mainstream journalism.
WATCH: Cohen Arrested in Defense of Assange at DOJ
Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream fame, was arrested on Thursday in front of the U.S. Department of Justice building in Washington protesting the DOJ’s prosecution of publisher Julian Assange.
WATCH: ASSANGE APPEAL — The US-UK Deception
The ‘Perfected Grounds of Appeal’ submitted by Julian Assange’s lawyers to the High Court of England and Wales reveals new evidence of deception by both Britain and the United States. (With transcript).
Sinking Billions — Undergunned & Overpriced
Missing records, billions in over-runs and flawed ships. Michelle Fahy reports on how the Australian Defence Department’s new BAE frigates project is a boondoggle for the British weapons-maker.
NATO’s Scorched Earth in Ukraine
The forthcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 11-12 seems already infected by a strange policy fatalism, writes Tony Kevin.
Failed Russian Coup Through a US Looking Glass
So long as such patent intellectual and moral dishonesty permeates American thinking, how can there be a genuine U.S.-Russia dialogue with mutual respect? writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.
Afghanistan, Biden Administration, China, Commentary, European Union, Iraq, Militarism, NATO, Pentagon, Propaganda, Russia, Syria, Taiwan, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News, Vietnam, WikiLeaks
Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan & Iraq; Now They’re Lying About Ukraine
The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war.
US Court Victory Against Online Censorship
A judge in Louisiana has barred the F.B.I. and other government agencies from asking social media companies to suppress free speech, reports Joe Lauria.