21 Oct, 2021
A long time ago, Gordon Adams introduced the term “iron triangle” to characterize the interlocked relationship of the Pentagon’s military services, the corporations that contract with it to build weapons and provide services, and the Congressional committees that vote on military appropriations—in short...
Dissecting North Korea’s missile tests by Mel Gurtov 902 words North Korea is carrying out one missile test after another...
28 Sep, 2021
The Coup Attempt
“There is an unfolding assault taking place in America today,” President Biden said in Philadelphia on July 13. “An attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections, an assault on democracy, an assault on liberty, an assault on who we are — who we are as Americans.”...
24 Sep, 2021
President Biden is continuing the disengagement policy toward China that began under Donald Trump, with strong bipartisan support...
15 Sep, 2021
Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Houthis, bombing, UNICEF, Obama, Trump, Biden, starvation, MBS...
19 Aug, 2021
The UN-appointed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a new report, based on the latest scientific findings...
17 Aug, 2021
Over a nearly 20-year period, the war in Afghanistan is estimated to have cost about $2.2 trillion and resulted in more than 240,000 deaths, military and civilian, on all sides...
9 Aug, 2021
We have just learned about a powerful spyware known as Pegasus, manufactured and leased by the Israeli company NSO Group and capable of extracting just about every kind of data stored in a smart phone...
1 Aug, 2021
Modern-day democracy has numerous weaknesses, as we’ve been made well aware: policy differences that cannot be resolved, corruption, manipulation of voting and elections, and the refusal...
14 Jul, 2021
Once upon a time, American leaders only went to war when, in accordance with the Constitution, Congress declared it.
13 Jul, 2021
Intervention in Haiti? by Mel Gurtov 619 words Published in: Sierra County Prospect, Black Star News, The Daily Review, Counterpunch,...
25 Jun, 2021
Despite the best efforts of the Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu to disrupt the nuclear talks with Iran by attacking Iran’s nuclear computer network, the news out of Geneva is that a new agreement is close to being signed.
11 Jun, 2021
Did you really think that electing Joe Biden would mean major reductions in military spending and the shift of Pentagon resources to spending on social well-being, as progressives have long advocated?
6 Jun, 2021
American history is replete with warnings of impending disaster that went unheeded: Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and more recently the climate crisis, Covid-19, and 1/6.
3 Jun, 2021
Taiwan has returned as a troubling issue in US-China relations. It is no longer merely a case of verbal jousting over the island’s autonomy versus Chinese claims of sovereignty.
