Matt Kennard shows in his new book that the bipartisan War on Terror laid the groundwork for the Trump presidency and the rise of fascism — now, with extremists empowered, we face the consequences.
UPDATED NOW: With chaos growing, Donald Trump sent his real estate agents to Islamabad in an effort at renewed peace talks. He says if there’s no deal this week he’ll start destroying Iran’s civilian targets, writes Joe Lauria.
When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.
Whose interests are served by predictions of a third general European war in little more than a century? The answer is clear: politicians who have led Europe into this nearly hopeless situation, says Uros Lipuscek.
They are all nouns. The F word can also be used as an adjective. They are all used as invectives. Today all these words are being overused. And misused, says Joe Lauria.
Palestinians are today’s Helots to Israel’s Sparta, condemned to be trampled on. When the response to genocide is more genocide, you are what you claim to be against. Exterminating children as the world looks on results, writes John Wight.
The economies of Western Europe are being realigned onto a war footing, led by the utterly transformed European Union, whose leaders are now channelling an atavistic hereditary hatred of Russia.