Last month Biden’s Haitian envoy resigned on principle. Is there someone in Biden’s Justice Department who would push the attorney general to drop the prosecution of Julian Assange? asks Joe Lauria.
Daniel Foote cited the federal government’s “deeply flawed” treatment of the impoverished Caribbean nation.
Critics decry the White House’s decision to release millions in aid that is supposed to be subject to human-rights conditions.
For the implications of U.S. global power, the collapse of Kabul was incomparably worse than the fall of Saigon, writes Alfred W. McCoy.
Tamara Pearson says Washington’s recent discourse is aimed at dressing itself, the bully, as the savior.
U.S. leaders would rather accept ever-more extreme isolation as the price of power than surrender any of it.
U.S. officials babble endlessly about “rules” and the “rules” are literally always tools for the benefit of the U.S., which literally always flouts those “rules” worse than any other government on earth, writes Caity Johnstone.
