Given the track record of U.S. authoritarianism, Nat Parry says it’s not surprising that Democrats’ calls for resisting the incoming Trump dictatorship ring hollow for many Americans.
Anti-Trump Anxiety Ignores History
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Afterlives of Lies
The Specious ‘US Voter Apathy’ Spin
Wilmer J. Leon on the decline in American voters’ interest in the two major parties and their presidential candidates.
Niger to US: Pack Up Your Forever War
Nick Turse on the the latest in a series of stalemates, fiascos, or outright defeats in Washington’s Global War on Terror.
Caitlin Johnstone: Israel Needs to be Hated
Perceived anti-semitism is cited as evidence for why Israel needs to be even more violent, militaristic and tyrannical than it already was, and why its brutal treatment of Palestinians is justified and correct.
Russian Imperialism?
Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin points to the fundamental difference between imperialism and revanchism as Western critics purposely or ignorantly confuse the two to serve their interests, writes Joe Lauria.
JOHN PILGER: Justice for Assange Is Justice for All
John Pilger, whose funeral was in London on Tuesday, wrote this account of the extradition trial of his friend Julian Assange in November 2021.
John Pilger: The Coming War — It’s Time to Speak Up
Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear, warned the late John Pilger last May. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism.
Craig Murray: Your Man in The Hague — Day 1
Former British diplomat Craig Murray was in the public gallery for the first day of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. Here is his highly-personal account.
John Pilger: Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works
Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done.