Three years before it intervened in Syria, Russia feared an Islamist takeover in Damascus would lead to widespread chaos in the region, like a new Afghanistan in the Levant, reported Joe Lauria in 2012.
Whether Trump spoke with Putin or not, it’s high time that the U.S. and Russian leaders communicate to resolve the existential crisis over Ukraine.
For months now, the world has focused on the danger of nuclear war between the United States and Russia. But Iran and Israel could beat them to it.
Two years after the Pentagon shot down his ploy for a no-fly zone against Russia in Ukraine, the U.S. “top diplomat” has been at it again pushing an even more insane idea.
Andrew P. Napolitano on a state of affairs unheard of in American jurisprudence, where judges don’t have bosses telling them what guilty pleas to accept and what to reject.
“Like a Stepford Wives convention” — Comedian Jimmy Dore looks back on the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
CN Live! discussed the four-day Democratic National Convention with guests Margaret Kimberley and Niko House.
According to LA Times editorialists, Chicago in 1960 and 1964 had good protesters who “worked within the party apparatus.” The 1968 protesters, they say, were bad and “set back the cause,” writes Riva Enteen.
UPDATED: U.S. support for Israel’s genocide against Palestine is rooted not only in campaign financing but other factors, including a rigid ideology stuck in the shadow of World War II, writes Joe Lauria.
The White House backed surveillance reauthorization that, despite a fresh record of routine abuses, expands security agencies’ spying power, writes Kevin Gosztola.