By Lisa Mullenneaux* – The Progressive Magazine Why we must never forget the human rights travesty of America’s gulag Clive Stafford Smith, the distinguished human rights attorney who co-founded the anti-death penalty nonprofit Reprieve and whose work earned him the Gandhi…
By John Scales Avery* – TRANSCEND Media Service EDITORIAL 14 Aug 2023 Endless Arms for Ukraine In the United States, the Biden administration has adopted the policy of sending many billions of dollars’ worth of advanced weapons to Ukraine, with the hope of weakening Russia, and…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* At least in the European context, a text with this title has to start with a caveat: when I speak of socialism I am not referring to socialist parties because they have long since abandoned socialism, and I could say the same about communist…
By Ellen Brown* – ScheerPost When the FDIC put Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank into receivership in March, a study reported on the Social Science Research Network found that nearly 200 midsized U.S. banks were similarly vulnerable to bank runs. First…
By Karsten Riise* – Global Research “No More Big Money, … All that is Left is Drip-Drip Small Handouts” After months and months of US media lies about how “phantastic” Ukraine is doing, it is for the cynical a fun to watch how the US narrative is breaking down these days…
By Jewish Voice for Peace, USA This week, U.S. billionaire Arthur Dantchik announced that he would no longer support the Kohelet Policy Forum, an extremist Israeli think tank behind the contentious judicial overhaul plan. This is an important win for two reasons. Since May 2021…
By Stephen Bryen* – Asia Times Ukrainian casualty numbers, equipment losses and sagging morale suggest a day of reckoning is not far off The Saudi Arabia-sponsored “peace talks” failed to accomplish anything. Ukraine was hoping to bring on board more “neutral” countries…
Astore* – TomDispatch The Perpetual Wars You Aren’t Supposed to Notice In his message to the troops prior to the July 4th weekend, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin offered high praise indeed. “We have the greatest fighting force in human history,” he tweeted…
By Frank Vogl* – The Globalist New humanitarian approaches are vital instead of IMF austerity Nine Kenyans were killed and more than 300 were arrested by the police in recent protests over what many Kenyans view as draconian government economic policies. In Lebanon, according to…
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…
