Why 55 U.S. Senators Voted for Genocide in Yemen
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, A Memo to the Publisher of the New York Times
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When Russia moved into the Ukraine and seized Crimea in 2014, it got more than its share of (bad) media coverage in the United States, as it did when it intervened in Syria the next year. So just imagine what kind of coverage Vladimir Putin’s favorite nation would be getting if, almost 17 years after it had launched a “Global War on Terrorism,” Russian troops, special
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, Jared Kushner, You’re Fired!
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What does it mean to send two family businesses into the White House? I’m referring to the Trump Organization and the family real estate firm of Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law. And that’s not even to mention Ivanka Trump’s ongoing
Tomgram: William Astore, The Fog of War in America
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I’ve long been struck by one strange aspect of the most recent part of the American Century: just how demobilized this country has been in the midst of distant wars that have morphed and spread for almost 17 years. I was born in July 1944 into a fully mobilized
Focus: The Poisoning of the Ex-Russian Spy
White House says Russia is responsible for the nerve agent attack on ex-Russian spy, support the United Kingdom’s decision to expel Russian diplomats – TheHill
White House statement on the United Kingdom’s decision to expel Russian diplomats – whitehouse.gov
U.S. Ambassador Haley tells U.N. Russia responsible for chemical attack – US News
At the UN Nikki Haley warns: Russia could use chemical weapons in New York – washingtonexaminer.com
VIDEO: Nikki Haley at the UN: Russia responsible for UK poisoning – YouTube
VIDEO: Theresa May says Kremlin ‘culpable’ for nerve-agent poisoning – YouTube
TRANSCRIPT: Theresa May Statement on Salisbury incident response – GOV.UK
Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, The Fight Over the Criminalization of Immigrants
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Forget Emma Lazarus’s poetry and the Statue of Liberty; you really don’t want to be an immigrant in today’s America. As Dara Lind recently pointed out at Vox, being an immigrant or the child of one (even if you’re a U.S. citizen) now means living
Although Two Out of Three Americans Oppose Increasing U.S. Military Spending, the U.S. Government Is Boosting It to Record Levels
Early this February, the Republican-controlled Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed new federal budget legislation that increased U.S. military spending by $165 billion over the next two years. Remarkably, though, a Gallup public opinion poll, conducted only days before, found that only 33 percent of Americans favored increasing U.S. military spending, while 65 percent opposed it, either backing reductions (34 percent) or maintenance of the status quo (31 percent).
What is even more
Videos of Take-A-Knee Discussion of Racism and Militarism
On March 1, 2018, I was very privileged to take part in a discussion of issues of racism, freedom of speech, patriotism, and war at Saint Mary’s Hall, a private high school in San Antonio “Military City USA” Texas.
I was one of five speakers who had been invited to speak about issues we had raised related to take-a-knee protests. The videos are all here, including video of all the
Credit where credit’s due: It’s North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, not Trump, who Forced the US to the Negotiating Table
By Dave Lindorff
I’m no fan of police states or of dictators, whether in Russia, China, North Korea or under development here in the United States, but let’s at least be honest about what’s behind the news that President Trump has agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the man he has been calling “fat” and “Little Rocket Man.”
The corporate media in the US has been lavishing at times grudging praise on