By Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh (*) – Democracy Now! The United States announced at a NATO summit in Madrid plans to build a permanent military base in Poland, as it formally invited Sweden and Finland to join the military alliance after they applied for membership in…
Polychroniou* – Truthout An NPR/Ipsos poll released in January revealed that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that U.S. democracy is “in crisis and at risk of failing.” What the poll does not disclose, of course, is the anomalous situation of the United States in…
Muñoz-Castellano* – Truthout One hundred human beings were inside an 18-wheeler without water or air conditioning in the blistering 100-degree Texas heat. Fifty of them are now dead.
Khrushcheva* – Project Syndicate Refusing to engage with Russian culture will not change President Vladimir Putin’s calculations, let alone impel him to withdraw his forces from Ukraine. It will merely cut off a potential source of information about his objectives and…
By Karl Mathiesen and David M. Herszenhorn (*) – POLITICO Leaders struggle to meet the moment on Ukraine, climate change, inflation, food and energy ZUGSPITZE, Germany — If they needed reminding about the urgency of climate change and their role in stopping it, all G7 leaders…
By Baher Kamal* MADRID, Jun 28 2022 (IPS) – The three-day North Atlantic Treaty Organisation-NATO Summit in Madrid (28,29, 30 June 2022) is expected to agree to considerably increase Europe’s military power, heavily weaponise Russia’s border, and further expand its presence in…
By Patrick Cockburn* – CounterPunch It has become easier over the last month for governments to kill or imprison journalists whom they want to silence. But the most sinister aspect of this assault on freedom of speech is that it is facing such limited resistance from…
By Andrew Marantz* – The New Yorker American conservatives recently hosted their flagship conference in Hungary, a country that experts call an autocracy. Its leader, Viktor Orbán, provides a potential model of what a Trump after Trump might look like.
Sachs* The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement. The Biden Administration is packed with the same neocons who championed the US wars of choice in Serbia (1999), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Syria (2011), Libya…
By POLITICO MAGAZINE A range of thinkers on the future of abortion post-Roe in America — and how that will affect everything else. The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v.
