Biden SNAPS at CNN reporter for questioning progress with Putin, why this is OK
Colin Rogero and Emily Jashinsky discuss how the media handled its coverage of the Biden-Putin summit.
Colin Rogero and Emily Jashinsky discuss how the media handled its coverage of the Biden-Putin summit.
In an NBC News worldwide exclusive, senior international correspondent Keir Simmons sits down with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for a one-on-one interview, just days ahead of a critical summit with President Biden.
By Caitlin Johnstone During an astonishingly sycophantic press conference after the Geneva summit with Vladimir Putin, President Biden posited an entirely hypothetical scenario about what the world would think of the United States if it were interfering in foreign elections and everybody knew it. When AP’s Jonathan Lemire […]
Colin Rogero and Emily Jashinsky compare media coverage of Joe Biden’s meeting with Russian President, Vladmir Putin, to the coverage Donald Trump received.
Her constituents elected her, dumbass. Republican shithead shows how seriously he takes his supposed ideals of “representative government.”
These guys have a pretty good discussion of foreign policy issues in this.
By Seth Wulsin, Counterpunch After six weeks of massive protests against neoliberalism and state violence in Colombia, right-wing president Iván Duque is relying on brute force to stay in power. Six weeks into Colombia’s general strike, protesters have won significant victories while bearing the brunt of a brutal […]
By Shamus Cooke, Counterpunch Not long ago pundits eulogized the death of Latin America’s “Pink Tide,” that mixture of revolutionary movements and left-leaning governments that sought the ever-elusive “3rd way” of economic development for Latin America, which ripped the continent out of the once-sturdy hands of U.S. imperialism. […]
By Caitlin Johnstone, Russia Today Caitlin Johnstone, an independent journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her website is here and you can follow her on Twitter @caitoz More people are becoming conscious of the Palestine issue and politicians and pundits can no longer get away with painting themselves as progressive-minded humanists without acknowledging […]
How The Young Turks became pro-imperialist. In this video we take a look how Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks (TYT) has changed his stance on Jimmy Dore, Syria and other issues since he received $20 million from Jeffrey Katzenberg and other investors. Also included is Cenk’s recent […]
From 2018. More cracks have appeared since then. “We don’t look after each other at all,” says Jeffrey Sachs on America today Jeffrey Sachs sits down with Rob Johnson to discuss his new book, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (Columbia University Press, 2018).
Correction: it is oppressing 7 Million Palestinians, Gaza Strip siege included.
Colin Rogero and Emily Miller discuss the G7 Summit. They also weigh in on a New York Times Investigation that reveals employers can require workers to get the covid vaccine.
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, weighs in on the Israel’s newly formed government.
By Chris Navagonski, The American Conservative President Biden is right: America is back. Since January, the United States has re-embraced the tactlessness and belligerence that have for so long defined American foreign policy. In April, Biden was a no-show when Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga visited the White […]
Netanyahu could be out. A more extreme right-winger is set to take his place. But the new ruling coalition is being heralded as a “progressive step” and “an opportunity for change.” Learn the shocking details about what is happening, and what it means for Palestine with prominent Israeli […]
By Hada Thier, Jacobin Yet again, both Republican and Democratic party leaders are attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar for telling the truth about American and Israeli war crimes. And yet again, Omar has nothing to apologize for. As sure as the sun rises in the morning, the American political […]
By Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal, Ron Paul Institute March 2021 marked the 10th anniversary of the Western regime-change war on Syria. And after a decade of grueling conflict, Washington is still maneuvering to extend its longstanding relationship with the Salafi-jihadist militants fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. With […]
Since the rise of the Communist Party to power within China, the state has made clear it’s ambitions of becoming a major player in world affairs; initially this meant merely being to the Soviet Union what Britain and the EU were to the United States, but following the […]
With the tremendous political tension both within and between the United States, the European Union, China, and Russia, there’s been a lot of speculation around the possibility of a new large-scale global conflict between the world powers in the form of another Great War. Will World War 3 […]
By MEE staff Pro-Palestinian activists have stormed and taken over a factory in Runcorn, a town in the northwest of England, which it says supplies parts for drones produced by Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. Palestine Action said in a statement that it had “stormed, scaled, and occupied” the factory, operated by APPH, […]
Izzy Award-winning Journalist Aaron Maté (https://twitter.com/aaronjmate) calls out media figures who claim to be Left and “anti-interventionist,” while totally ignoring the intervention in the countries they’re reporting on. Having recently been attacked for reporting from Syria, Maté responds to a segment from The Young Turks and Ana Kasperian […]
“To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” – Henry Kissinger
Duh?
“A motley collection of imbeciles, con artists, thieves, opportunists, and war-mongering generals.” Aesop: “The lower criminals we execute. The higher criminals we elect to high office.”
Ilhan is cool.
Economic nationalists like Saager overrate China just like liberals overrate Russia. China could only “buy” Bush, Clinton, and Biden because they were “for sale” in the first place. China is an economic colony of the US ruling class. It’s interesting how both Marxists and conservatives have an overblown […]
On an international level, the US is worse than Hamas and the Taliban. Ryan Grim nails it in this. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments comparing the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban.
Peru’s presidential candidate Pedro Castillo addresses supporters from the headquarters of the “Free Peru” party in Lima, Peru June 8, 2021. REUTERS/Alessandro Cinque Peru’s presidential candidate Pedro Castillo addresses supporters from the headquarters of the “Free Peru” party in Lima, Peru June 8, 2021. REUTERS/Alessandro Cinque Peruvian socialist […]
By Pat Buchanan, Chronicles “Take away this pudding; it has no theme,” is a comment attributed to Winston Churchill, when a disappointing dessert was put in front of him. Writers have used Churchill’s remark to describe a foreign policy that lacks coherence or centrality of purpose. For most […]
In These Times In July 1998, In These Times documented the CIA’s myriad abuses during the Guatemalan Civil War. It’s a history that Vice President Kamala Harris has conveniently ignored. During her recent visit to Guatemala, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a frank message to Central Americans hoping to […]
by Joe Parkin Daniels, The Guardian Fifty-eight people have died in six weeks of unrest, but demonstrators say they are more determined than ever to fight for change. Protests in Colombia that began in late April over a proposed tax hike have morphed into a generational outcry over […]
by Ariela Ruiz Caro, Counterpunch The May 15th and 16th elections in Chile, which encompassed concurrently the vote for the 155 delegates to the Constituent Assembly as well as the vote for municipal officials and regional governors, has exposed the dismal failure of the government and rightwing parties […]
The Mindcrime liberty show interviews Keith Preston about Israel. We discuss the past and future of Israel and how this conflict emerged and if any “solution” actually exists. We begin the discussion by pointing out why a one state liberal democracy in the western European context, which is […]
This should be good for building a wedge between neoliberals and progressives. Excellent. Some good, though very basic, background on US foreign policy in Central America. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to VP Kamala Harris telling Guatemalans making the trek to the U.S. southern border, “do not […]
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses the potential Prime Minister change in Israel and what is means for Palestinians.
by Edward Ongweso Jr Vice Raytheon, a military contractor with a business model that centers on making killing machines, changed its logo colors to a rainbow palette. June is Pride Month, which means it’s time for corporations that normally contribute to the deaths of marginalized people in the […]
Highly accurate Israeli snipers murdered this woman on this day in 2018, Her name is #RazanNajjar She was 21 years old, a mother and a nurse. They soaked her white nurses coat in blood and themselves in everlasting shame. She is surely bound for heaven and they to […]
Futurism Cobalt mining is having a disastrous impact on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the demand for gadgets and electric cars grows, so too are the mining operations that dig up cobalt to use in lithium-ion batteries. And that’s become a serious problem for the Democratic […]
TELOS Press In today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast, Camelia Raghinaru talks with Michael Millerman about his article “The Ethnosociological and Existential Dimensions of Alexander Dugin’s Populism,” from Telos 193 (Winter 2020). An excerpt of the article appears below. To learn how your university can subscribe to Telos, […]
When those wars were beginning, I knew that Afghanistan would be a failure because no external power has ever been able to successfully occupy that region, not since Alexander the Great tried it in antiquity (ever heard of the Soviet Union, anyone?). And I figured that the removal […]
He calls Ana Kasparian a “weather girl” and talks about TYT is beholden to Katzenberg money. This is me BODYING Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur for being sell-out clowns with embarrassing takes! Here’s Madeline Albright being EVIL: https://youtu.be/4J62mr65PVc AND here’s corporate shill Ana Kasparian cozying up to her […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Virgil Texas discuss how the establishment has pushed back against movements for justice in U.S. policing and Palestine.
Virgil Texas and Briahna Joy Gray speak to the one-and-only Dr. Cornel West about the professional consequences of his advocacy for Palestine, his tenure battle with Harvard, and what he makes of the gap between the media response to his case versus Nikole Hannah-Jones’s tenure battle. How does […]
By Matt Purple, The American Conservative As bombs rain down on Yemen, Lockheed Martin has finally realized it has a problem: a lack of woke consultants. Don’t ever say there isn’t healing in America today. From Christopher Rufo at City Journal: Last year, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the nation’s largest […]
By Douglas MacGregor, The American Conservative The revived geopolitical rivalry between Russia and Turkey spells trouble for Putin and his allies. On the first of October 1939, just three days after the fall of Warsaw and Poland’s destruction at the hands of Soviet and German forces, Stalin summoned […]
By Evin Ashley Erdogdu, The American Conservative American culture and freedom of expression are the battleground of a new cold war. China and Saudi Arabia have outsized influence in Hollywood today. Money from their repressive governments is influencing American culture, including our films, and thus our representation around […]
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