By Jill Abramson* – The Observer Last week’s outburst against his prosecutors is part of a long campaign that many fear is in danger of subverting democracy American democracy is only as strong as its legal system. The founders of the country created the judiciary as the third…
By Esther Brito Ruiz and Jeff Bachman (*) – The Conversation War entails suffering. How and how often that suffering is reported on in the U.S., however, is not evenhanded Take, for example, the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen in March 2015 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in…
By Ben Norton* – Australian platform Pearls and Irritations Wars the US waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today…
Caitlin Johnstone* – https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/ Iraq war cheerleader David Brooks has an article in The New York Times titled “What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?”, another one of those tired old think pieces we’ve been seeing for the last eight years that asks “golly gosh…
By Ian Millhiser* – Vox Media Trump’s lawyers plan to argue he had a First Amendment right to subvert the 2020 election. He didn’t. Shortly after special counsel Jack Smith unveiled four new criminal charges against former president Donald Trump — all arising out of Trump’s…
By Scott Ritter* – Special to Consortium News The dysfunction of the Atlantic military alliance over Ukrainian membership was just the most public manifestation of the debacle that was the Vilnius summit. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky emerges as a tragic figure in the…
By Robert Reich* – Common Dreams Each indictment and civil verdict has given the rest of America further confirmation of how dangerous and loathsome Donald Trump really is, and how far the Republican Party has gone in rejecting the rule of law. A grand jury has officially…
Ruehl* – Globetrotter/Independent Media Institute Understanding the actions and justifications behind territorial colonial behavior by the UN Security Council since 1945. One of the underlying principles of the UN Charter is the protection of the sovereign rights of states.
By Nathalie Tocci* – The Guardian Europe needs a humane, pragmatic strategy, not this tried-and-failed tactic of doling out cash to authoritarian regimes European governments are beginning to panic about migration again. So far this year there have been nearly 120,000…
Hartung* – Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Nuclear-Industrial Complex Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past few months, you’re undoubtedly aware that award-winning director Christopher Nolan has released a new film about Robert Oppenheimer, known as the “father of…
