Biden continues to flirt with disaster. At least — as Tom Lehrer said — “we’ll all go together when we go.” Not the sort of togetherness Biden supporters hope for, I suspect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs I heard Professor Jeffrey Sachs, in an interview yesterday, point out that Ukrainians, with U.S. help, are shelling parts of Russia’s…
The following interview (with respected American journalists Robert Scheer and Chris Hedges) gives a better historical background of Mikhail Gorbachev’s role in the end of the (first!) Cold War than anything I’ve found lately. In the first 15 minutes of this video you can get a better understanding of the new Cold War and…
By Stan Cox Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch September 22, 2022 The Nightmare of Military Spending on an Overheating Planet – A Big Carbon Bootprint and a Giant Sucking Sound in the National Budget On October 1st, the U.S. military will start spending the more than $800 billion Congress is going to provide it with…
Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch.com Editor’s Note: Chomsky says “So, criminality and stupidity on the Kremlin side, severe provocation on the U.S. side. That’s the background that has led to this [the Ukraine war]. Can we try to bring this horror to an end? Or should we try to perpetuate it? Those are the…
How can the same man who seems so personally outraged by Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine continue to support the Saudi assault on Yemen, where two million children face starvation? I don’t know the answer. I can only guess. But one factor common to both wars is the tremendous profits of the arms industry. War…