By Sonali Kolhatkar*- Counterpunch Right-wing media outlets such as Fox News have long pushed racist narratives to further their goals. And, outlets like the New York Times—the so-called “liberal media”—do too little, too late, to push back; it falls to the ranks of independent…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jun 15 2023 (IPS) – As artificial intelligence (AI) turns into a global phenomenon, it has triggered widespread speculation on both its positive and negative consequences. Is AI technology threatening to go wild? the scep tics question. Will AI be…
By Lev Golinkin* – The Nation Before Russia invaded Ukraine, these fighters were neo-Nazis. Brownshirt brigade?
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…
