By Naveed Jamali* – Newsweek 12/6/19 – With the announcement by Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday that she instructed key House chairmen to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, the expected outcome of the inquiry has been formalized.… Continue Reading
By Rebecca Gordon* – TomDispatch Fruits of the Twin Roots of Evil: Slavery and Imperial Expansion On the Thursday of the second week of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had a special guest on… Continue Reading
Editorial The prime minister kept a calculated distance from the US president at the Nato summit because he knows their similarities play badly with voters A US president’s low-key exit from a Nato summit, skipping the traditional press conference, would… Continue Reading
By Enzo Pellegrin – Global Research On March 15, 2018, Maurizio Stefanini, reporter of an italian right think-tank, complained that the huge reserve of Lithium present in Bolivia was in the hands of the State“” and of the bad example“”… Continue Reading
By Celina della Croce* – Independent Media Institute Thirteen of us squeezed into Congressman Jim McGovern’s small office in Northampton, Massachusetts, far outnumbering the number of chairs available. At the head of the table sat Koby Gardner-Levine, the congressman’s Northampton… Continue Reading
By Gregory Shupak* – FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)** Pro-coup editorials rely on -and misreport-questionable evidence from the dubious OAS To endorse the coup in Bolivia, numerous editorials in major US media outlets paint President Evo Morales as undemocratic.… Continue Reading
*Robert B. Reich – Newsweek As a candidate in 2015, Donald Trump said that he’d “surround myself only with the best and most serious people.” Not quite. On November 15, Trump’s long-time friend and personal confidante, Roger Stone, was found… Continue Reading
Laurence H. Tribe* – Newsweek After just one week of public impeachment hearings, Donald Trump has unmistakably emerged as America’s anti-president, the very model of the charlatan George Washington warned might be overtaken by “the insidious wiles of foreign influence.”… Continue Reading
Editorial If the US president tried to enlist Ukraine to investigate his rivals he broke his oath of office and threatened America’s security There are multiple reasons why Donald Trump ought not to be the president of the United States.… Continue Reading
By Eoin Higgins, staff writer – Common Dreams* “Bolivia’s lithium belongs to the Bolivian people. Not to multinational corporate cabals.” Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni salt flats hold the largest reserves of lithium in the world. The Sunday military coup in… Continue Reading
By Kenneth Katzman(*) – LobeLog (**) The objective of any sanctions regime is not to punish the target country or weaken its economy as an end in itself. Rather, a sanctions campaign—including the Trump Administration’s policy of “maximum pressure” on… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures The United States is in the process of shifting a core dimension of its strategic doctrine. In the past, the U.S. resorted to the use of force to address international threats. Barack Obama was… Continue Reading
James Carroll* – TomDispatch. What can the fall of the Berlin Wall teach us at a time when democracy is in retreat, predatory capitalism is on the rise, and a new arms race is ramping up? And the Return of… Continue Reading
By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay* – Global Research “If this [U.S.] government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny,… Continue Reading
By Justin Baragona* – The Daily Beast “I’ve often said that Tulsi is sort of the Trojan horse in this. She’s polling at only 1.2 percent, yet she’s still in the race,” Sunny Hostin said at one point. The View’s Joy… Continue Reading
By Stuart Schrader* – Boston Review During the Cold War, the “police apparatus” was held up as a prime example of Soviet repression. Yet in its efforts to fight subversives, the United States ended up with its own carceral state. Imagine an… Continue Reading
Shahed Ghoreishi* – Newsweek Diplomacy between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and President Donald Trump appeared close to a breakthrough as recently as two weeks ago. French President Emmanuel Macron was reportedly standing outside Rouhani’s hotel suite waiting to take the… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures For several years, there has been a significant shift underway in U.S. strategy toward the Middle East, where Washington has consistently sought to avoid combat. The United States is now compelled to seek accommodation… Continue Reading
By George Friedman * – Geopolitical Futures It is time to end this series of philosophical ruminations and turn instead to something that is at the center of geopolitics: war. The roots of my philosophical mumblings and my thoughts on war… Continue Reading
By Fernando Ayala* – Wall Street International Magazine Who is looking for, or to whom a war is convenient? The theocratic revolution of 1978 led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini which ended the monarchy and dictatorship of the Shah, Reza Pahlavi,… Continue Reading
