In the end, with weary citizens yearning for extinction, empires light their own funeral pyre.
Chris Hedges: Grand Illusion
Tag: Bay of Pigs
Hedges Report: Narco-Trafficking Elite Set to Run Venezuela
Marco Rubio’s [peripheral] personal ties to drug trafficking underscore a deep irony in the Trump administration’s attempts to use the drug war as a means of achieving their imperialist goals in Latin America.
Is BRICS the Way Forward?
After witnessing Cuba’s ailing economy in a recent visit, Asoka Bandarage looks beyond BRICS for an alternative to both authoritarian socialism and neoliberal capitalism.
‘Peace For All Time’: JFK American U Speech at 62
Peter Kuznick delivers a talk at a Simone Weil Center symposium on John F. Kennedy’s momentous 1963 American University speech, marking the president’s transformation from Cold Warrior to peace seeker.
Rubio, Cuba & the Zionist Model
Lawrence Davidson on how the history of the Cuban American lobby, in copying the Israel lobby, has prepared the U.S. secretary of state to carry out Trump’s often unconstitutional and inhumane bidding.
RAY McGOVERN: Will Gabbard Be Able to Direct the Intelligence ‘Community’?
The next director of national intelligence needs courage, political smarts and strong presidential backing to fulfill her duty to oversee and provide advice on covert action.
Biden Pursues Trump’s Cuba Policy
In Cuba there are serious people who recognize the problems but are not overwhelmed by them, writes Vijay Prashad.
The Werewolves Who Hated Castro
The Little Havana celebrations of Fidel Castro’s death last month had a touch of mean-spirited delusion since perhaps Castro’s greatest achievement was defying American power and living to die of old age, observes Greg Maybury.
Why JFK Still Matters
Since John F. Kennedy’s death, there’s been little presidential rhetoric that was not either bombastic and self-serving Reagan’s “tear down this wall” or cringingly dishonest Nixon’s “I am not a crook” or Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with…