The End Stage of American Empire BY WILLIAM J. ASTORE Reprinted from TomDispatch.com All around us things are falling apart. Collectively, Americans are experiencing national and imperial decline. Can America save itself? Is this country, as presently constituted, even worth saving? For me, that last question is radical indeed. From my early years, I…
Innocent persons will continue to die until we find a way to stop the use of this weapons system. The risks will increase as AI takes over more and more of the targeting and launch decisions. ANN WRIGHT Reprinted from Common Dreams (June 5, 2023) under a Creative Commons License Citizen activism to bring…
by Dan Kovalik and Rick Sterling Posted on May 30, 2023 in antiwar.com Reprinted with permission of author Dan Kovalik [Editor’s Note: This interesting article offers more first-hand evidence for the overwhelming desire among Crimeans to rejoin Russia immediately following the US-supported coup in Kiev in February of 2014. Don] This is the second part of…
Editor’s note: Notice two critical points in Professor Sachs account below: (1) “Russia pursued diplomatic options in 2021 [months before the invasion] to avoid war, while Biden rejected diplomacy,” and (2) “In March 2022 [just weeks after the invasion], Russia and Ukraine reported progress towards a quick negotiated end to the war based on…
If you haven’t been reading Amanda Marcotte in Salon, you’ve been missing gems like these: As journalist Lyz Lenz writes in her newsletter, “Maybe 70 percent of women file for divorce because having a husband adds seven extra hours of housework, work that a wife is expected to do. Maybe it’s because women, despite also…