By Micah Meadowcroft, The American Conservative The U.S. squandered the unipolar moment, but we aren’t into simple multipolarity quite yet. The collapse of the Soviet Union began nearly two decades of American unipolarity. During that time, U.S. leadership pursued a strategy of what international relations scholars call liberal […]
In this clip from the Waking Up With Julianna Forlano show, Professor Richard D. Wolff discusses how “if we stop funding the Military-Industrial Complex we could afford the greening of America, the infrastructure program, the American family program. All of these things wouldn’t require a nickel of government […]
The Grayzone journalist, Max Blumenthal, talks about charged, weaponized rhetoric used to ratchet up tensions with China.
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria gives his take on why China’s increasingly assertive foreign policy is putting it at odds not just with foreign nations, but also with its own interests.
The Young Turds forever discredited themselves with their reverential interview of Maudlin Half-bright.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America loves its monsters. We love to make em and we love to blow em up. For all our high talk of freedom and democracy, we are a superpower with a long and storied history of building up […]
A pretty good explanation of the backstory.
Good job, Abby. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Georgia’s anti-BDS law being deemed unconstitutional.
By Doug Bandow, The American Conservative The upcoming summit between Biden and Putin is an opportunity for productive conversation and a little less conflict. Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin are planning to meet in Switzerland next month. It obviously is better to have the two talking rather […]
A debate between Richard Hanania and Peter Zeihan on the future of China would be interesting. Zeihan would argue that Hanania is overestimating China’s stability and geopolitical viability. President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, Richard Hanania, explains the two mistakes he says people […]
Jewish Israeli Anthropologist Jeffrey Halper states a fact that is so undeniable, it’s hard to believe that Israel apologists (including Deborah Messing) are denying it: “Israel was founded through ethnic cleansing.” Even Right Wing Israeli Zionists admit that. They just defend it! Yet somehow it’s acceptable for people […]
Anti-Israel sentiments seem to be becoming more commonplace on both the left and right. By Paul Brian, The American Conservative Egypt’s recent brokering of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas comes as the devastation of the most recent 11 days of war stacks up: 253 Palestinians dead according […]
Israel and Saudi Arabia are state-guaranteed export markets for US arms manufacturers that are underwritten by US taxpayers. Fiscal conservatives and tax-cutters, where are you? By Thomas L. Knapp, Garrison Center On May 5, Hamas commander Mohammed Deif issued a warning to Israel’s government: Unless Israeli police and […]
By Claes G. Ryn, The American Conservative Reactions to globalization, the Trump presidency, and the coronavirus pandemic have turned discussions of American conservatism increasingly into discussions of “nationalism.” Regrettably, terminological confusion is rampant. Both “conservatism” and “nationalism” are words of many and even contradictory meanings. The strengths of […]
Instead, they want to raise fuel taxes on the working class. Washington Post economics reporter, Jeff Stein, discusses pushback fro By Mona El-Naggar, Adam Rasgon and Mona Boshnaq, New York Times When asked to describe how they felt, many parents answered with a simple “It’s God’s will,” their […]
We’re moving closer to the kinds of transnational elites that existed in the era of royal dynasties.
Noura Erakat (https://twitter.com/4noura), a Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer and Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice lays out how pretending that anti-zionism is antisemitism obscures the way that antisemitism was created by White Supremacy. She also […]
Journalist Glenn Greenwald, discusses the Belarus warplane that forced a flight from Greece to Lithuania to land in order to detain a 26-year-old dissident journalist, Roman Protasevich.
Krystal Ball breaks down conservative silence on cancel culture in regards to criticism of Israel.
Time is going to run out on the Israelis eventually. They’re getting too arrogant for their own good. Eventually, American public opinion is going to turn against them, and then they will be a shadow of their former selves when big brother no longer has their back. By […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s an inevitability if you’re an online muckraker. It happens all the time. You get dragged down the rabbit hole by some malignant grandstanding troll and, regardless of what the devolving conversation was actually about, somebody gets called […]
Geraldo Rivera wasn’t afraid to call out Sean Hannity for his abhorrent takes on Israel.
Geraldo Rivera schooled Fox News on the ongoing crisis.
From 2014. By Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post All signs indicate that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to wage a protracted battle in the battered Gaza Strip as it seeks to crush the capabilities of the Islamist militant group Hamas. The ongoing conflict has already […]
In the tradition of the Congress of Cultural Freedom.
This is a must-watch. This debut feature film by journalist Abby Martin began while reporting in Palestine, where she was denied entry into Gaza by the Israeli government on the accusation she was a “propagandist.” So Abby connected with a team of journalists in Gaza to produce the […]
Russia Today A CNN news anchor has accused Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi of using an anti-Semitic slur during a live interview after the diplomat claimed that Israelis “control the media.” The interview began with Qureshi talking about a possible ceasefire between the Palestinian militant group Hamas […]
The most immediately obvious problem with this article is that it rests on the assumption that Hamas launches rocket attacks on Israel for no other reason that boredom or having nothing better to do. By Jonah Goldberg Structural racism means different things to different people. But here’s a […]
Critics of anarchism often argue, “But without the state we would have corporate feudalism!” apparently not recognizing that we already have corporate feudalism. By Oliver Milman, The Guardian Steven Donziger has been detained at home since August 2019, the result of a Kafkaesque legal battle stemming from his […]
Abby Martin is a pretty good source for information on Israel/Palestinian.
By Federico Ferretti This paper discusses the relation between early anarchism and republican/nationalist ideas. We will focus on the case of British-based activists grouped around the journal Freedom and their engagement with Irish nationalism during the Age of the Empire. Freedom, founded in 1886, was the most important […]
Actress and activist, Susan Sarandon, and former presidential candidate, Marianne Williamson discuss the trial of Steven Donziger.
By Jonathan Swan, Zachary Basu ,Axios Axios’ “Off the rails” series documents the end of the Trump administration, from election night 2020 through the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol. One important piece is only now beginning to emerge: Former President Donald Trump’s last-minute bid to pull U.S. […]
By Doug Bandow, The American Conservative To his credit, President Joe Biden decided to pull American troops out of Afghanistan by September. However, they aren’t out yet. And President Donald Trump’s struggle against his own staff and the military brass demonstrates the power of Washington, D.C.’s war lobby. […]
The social democrats in Congress aren’t my cup of tea at all but if they can throw a wrench in the US-Israel relationship, more power to them. Saagar Enjeti and Colin Rogero discuss the latest updates in the U.S. response to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
By Gregory Shupak, FAIR Media coverage of heightened violence in Israel/Palestine has misrepresented events in the Israeli government’s favor by suggesting that Israel is acting defensively, presenting a false equivalency between occupier and occupied, and burying information necessary to understand the scale of Israeli brutality. Corporate media have […]
Excellent. The empire continues to fragment. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused President Joe Biden of “writing history with his bloody hands” after a report of a $735 million dollar weapons sale from the United States to Israel. Following a meeting with his Cabinet, Erdogan issued a rebuke […]
Abby Martin gives 5 points that evaporate Israel’s assertion that the civilians it kills in Gaza were “human shields.”
Team Rising reacts to President Biden waiving sanctions on a Russian pipeline into Germany.
Krystal Ball reacts to the protests taking place across Palestine in response to recent Israeli attacks.
“Mowing the lawn” is the phrase used by Israelis to describe the massacres of Palestinians.
By Michelle Gavin, Council on Foreign Relations Competition for influence on the African continent is an undeniable geopolitical reality. The Donald Trump administration’s emphasis on countering China and Russia on the continent raised concerns about unwelcome echoes of the Cold War era, when the United States often treated […]
If only he had been successful. It is revealed that Donald Trump, in a tantrum after losing the 2020 election, tried to pull all American military troops from around the world.
By Michael Paul Williams, Richmond Times-Dispatch The message on the protest signs and face masks, “WE CAN’T BREATHE SINCE 1948,” succinctly expresses the shared history of oppression between African Americans and Palestinians. “I can’t breathe” were the dying words of Eric Garner and George Floyd — one man […]
Tom Cotton and Netanyahu vs the Associated Press and Hamas in a heel vs. heel tag team match. Following yesterday’s Senate floor broadside against the AP, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) doubled down, questioning whether the Associated Press knew it was sharing a building with Hamas.
From the perspective of serious Judaism or Christianity, Zionism can’t be considered anything other than heresy. According to Judaism, Israel cannot be restored until the Messiah comes, and the “kingdom of Israel” is a spiritual kingdom, not a political one. According to Christianity, Jesus Christ was the Messiah, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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