This interview with Max Blumenthal (author of “The Management of Savagery“) is well worth hearing in its entirety in Aaron Maté’s “Push Back” podcast, here: “US claim of ‘Russian Bounty’ plot in Afghanistan is dubious and dangerous” (Youtube) In the meantime, here are some choice quotes: AARON MATÉ: What do you make of the…
Fear of Falling Can Making Black Lives Matter Rescue a Failing State? By Rebecca Gordon Reprinted with permission from Tomdispatch.com You know that feeling when you trip on the street and instantly sense that you’re about to crash hard and there’s no way to prevent it? As gravity has its way with you, all you…
An Interview with Jonathan Schell on America’s Vietnam Debacle By Chris Appy [The following interview from Chris Appy’s 2003 book Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides is used with the kind permission of his publisher, Viking Penguin, and is posted at TomDispatch.com as a memorial to Jonathan Schell, who died on March 25th, and to his work,…
By Tom Boggioni Citing the work of a University of a Washington political scientist, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank said Donald Trump and his racist rhetoric has accelerated the decline of the Republican party in a country that is seeing major demographic changes and because white voters are increasingly turned off by it. As Milbank wrote,…
ALAN MACLEOD Based upon a bombshell New York Times report (6/26/20), virtually the entire media landscape has been engulfed in the allegations that Russia is paying Taliban fighters bounties to kill US soldiers. The Washington Post (6/27/20) and the Wall Street Journal (6/27/20) soon published similar stories, based on the same intelligence officials who refused to give their names,…