BY DAVE LINDORFF* – CounterPunch website The stolen and lied-about documents that Trump stands indicted for trying to hide from federal investigators, such as information about the American nuclear weapons stockpile, its assessment of other nuclear nations’ nuclear arsenals and…
BY JACOPO BARIGAZZI AND STEPHAN FARIS – POLITICO If there’s one thing that defined Italy’s most memorable prime minister it was his overwhelming desire to be loved. In the mid-1990s, Silvio Berlusconi started planning for the afterlife. On the grounds of his multi-million euro…
By Medea Benjamin* – Common Dreams “The institutions established to ensure peace and security in Europe fell short, and the failure of diplomacy led to war,” attendees said in a joint declaration. “Now diplomacy is urgently needed to end the war before it destroys Ukraine and…
By Evan Osnos* – The New Yorker Trump is not only the first former President to face federal charges but also the most confounding front-runner ever in a Presidential primary How do you campaign against a political rival for whom there is no conceivable precedent? When the…
By Alicia Garcia-Herrero* – Asia Times Beijing has only taken advantage of the opportunity the West has carelessly abandoned It has long been the case that almost everything that happens in the Latin American region has something to do with China. This relationship began with…
By Richard Eskow* – Common Dreams The real goal of billionaire-funded Social Security rhetoric is to prevent the public from drawing a connection between Social Security’s finances, the working-class retirement crisis, and the ludicrous amounts of wealth held by America’s…
Chip Gibbons – The Dissenter Newsletter * Defending Rights and Dissent project director Chip Gibbons catalogs the FBI’s history of investigating Julian Assange and targeting WikiLeaks The following was originally published as part of the Defending Rights & Dissent…
Col. (R) Daniel L. Davis* – Newsweek As all eyes focus on what appears to be the opening moves of Ukraine’s long-anticipated spring offensive, looming just over the horizon is next month’s NATO summit in Vilnius, where the issue of NATO membership for Ukraine will be front…
By Vijay Prashad* -Globetrotter/Independent Media Institute On June 3, 2023, naval vessels from the United States and Canada conducted a joint military exercise in the South China Sea. A Chinese warship (LY 132) overtook the U.S. guided-missile destroyer (USS Chung-Hoon) and…
Sachs* – Common Dreams Sixty years after Kennedy’s commencement address at American University, crucial lessons must still be learned about how to end dangerous conflicts in a nuclear world. President John F.
