Ralph Nader says that when you shut out the civic community, you shut down democracy. He places responsibility for that happening, first and foremost, on the mass media.
The Chris Hedges Report: Media-Led Autocracy
Tag: Vice President Kamala Harris
The Warfare State & Trump’s Rise to Power
While the military industrial complex seems all too natural to most politicians and journalists, Norman Solomon says its consequences have transformed U.S. politics.
Vijay Prashad: Give Us Peace
As outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Austin embarks on his 12th tour of the Indo-Pacific, the U.S.’ New Cold War on China shows no signs of slowing down under a second Trump presidency.
Caitlin Johnstone: The ‘Genocide-for-Groceries’ Candidate
This week, Kamala Harris said she knows about voter revulsion over the Israeli genocide in Palestine. But people better vote for her anyway if they want abortions and affordable groceries.
Catastrophe at the Ballot Box
The U.S. political and media culture has produced two of the most incompetent figures imaginable to vie for the role of leading the country into the abyss, writes Jim Kavanagh.
The Year After Al-Aqsa Flood
The maniacal alliance between the U.S. and Israel has exposed the sham of Western democracy and the illusion of international law, writes Margaret Kimberley.
Craig Murray: Netanyahu Plays Chicken
Israel plans to humiliate Iran and its allies to an extent that a full-on regional war, in which the United States will fight alongside them, becomes inevitable.
Patrick Lawrence: The ‘War Party’ Makes Its Plans
Volodymyr Zelensky now says he wants to show Biden, and subsequently Harris and Trump, his “plan for victory over Russia.”
Biden’s Memo Invoked to Stop Arms to Israel
Rights groups this week reminded the White House of its report in May that concluded that Israel’s use of U.S. weapons were likely “inconsistent” with international law.
Caitlin Johnstone: Democrats’ Mad Middle East Platform
When you’re siding with John Bolton on whether to bomb Iran, you’re as insanely hawkish as it gets.