American voters should have a say on the cabinet that a presidential candidate proposes to go into power with, writes Joe Lauria.
Tag: Donald Trump
Trump’s Pernicious Military Legacy
Michael Klare says it’s impossible to overstate the significance of the Pentagon’s shift in posture during the term of the outgoing president.
COVID-19: Vaccine Apartheid
An every-country-for-itself approach is irrational during a pandemic, writes Jayati Ghosh. And yet, that is exactly what many countries have done.
Declassify America’s Dirty Secrets in Syria to Stop a Biden War
Jim Bovard urges Trump to open the files to provide activism ammo for the vast numbers of Americans who vehemently oppose forever wars.
Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires.
CNN Follows CN by 8 Days on Russiagate Payback Story
A week after CN, Cable News Network reported that Donald Trump knows he lost but is holding out to get back at the Democrats for undermining his legitimacy with Russiagate.
ELECTION 2020: Biden Will Fail to Bring Back ‘Normal’ Politics
There’s no going back to the neoliberal consensus, writes Jonathan Cook. We have entered the age of political populism – a natural response to burgeoning inequality.
25 YEARS: Bob Parry’s Last Article–A Manifesto on the State of Journalism
On New Year’s Eve 2017, less than a month before he would die, CN founder Bob Parry wrote his last article, a manifesto on the remit of journalism and its threatened demise, a chilling forecast of what was to come.
Only Kooks Believe In The Deep State
Mainstream, liberal U.S. discourse has accomplished an amazing feat of Orwellian doublethink with regard to the notion that unelected power structures are running things without the consent of the nation’s official elected government, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
RAY McGOVERN: What is John Brennan So Worried About?
Given the uncertainties of Donald Trump’s actions as he faces a White House exit, the possible declassification of certain documents has the former CIA director sweating.