We seem to live in a strange age where politics relies more than ever on the big lie technique, even as social media makes the exposure of such lies inevitable.
Craig Murray: Who Runs America?
Tag: Joe Biden
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Wreckage Biden Leaves
A lightweight when it came time to prove himself as a statesman and a leader, the White House has simply defeated him.
Netanyahu Commands, US Obeys
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.
Chris Hedges: Billionaires Tossed No-Longer-Useful Biden
Democrats are anointing another amoral politician as a mask for outsized corporate greed, the folly of endless war, the facilitation of genocide and the assault on our most basic civil liberties.
Kamala Harris’s Distinguished Career of Serving Injustice
The presidential hopeful’s record in California undermines her claim to progressive credentials, says Marjorie Cohn.
Harris Would Continue Gaza Genocide
The empire’s behavior is no more changed with a new president — Trump or Harris — than a corporation is changed with a new secretary at the front desk of its main office, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
NATO SUMMIT: Collectively Losing Their Minds
Soon after Russia entered Ukraine, the Pentagon corrected Antony Blinken for saying Kiev would get NATO fighter jets. Blinken was applauded at the NATO summit yesterday for saying F-16s would soon arrive in Ukraine. What changed? asks Joe Lauria.
Biden: ‘I’m Running the World’
The comment by the sitting U.S. president in Friday’s interview has been ignored by the mainstream, but its megalomania is at the heart of why Joe Biden is defying his party and remaining in the race, writes Joe Lauria.
WATCH: US Silences Its Students to Promote Genocide
CN Editor Joe Lauria spoke to the news site Politurco about U.S. policy in Gaza and the aggressive silencing of America students who dare speak out against genocide.
US Presidents Who Gamble With Nuclear Armageddon
Talk of nuclear war is currently everywhere, writes Jeffrey Sachs. We desperately need leaders who can steer the nation, and the world, toward a more secure future.