China and the U.S. Face an Unprecedented Crisis BY ALFRED MCCOY Originally published in (and reprinted with the permission of) Tomdispatch.com If the world is indeed entering a new Cold War, it bears little resemblance to the final years of that global conflict with its frequent summits between smiling leaders and its arms agreements aimed…
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…
JUAN COLE Originally published on 10/17/2021 in Informed Comment Reprinted here with the permission of the author Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American journalists like to personalize stories and create horse races empty of real content. That is why most Americans don’t know what is in the Democratic Build Back Better Bill backed by…
Next two Zoom webinars in the Yale Forum calendar: September 20, 2021: A BURNING TESTAMENT TO CLIMATE COLLAPSE — Lucy Walker, Film Director, “Bring Your Own Brigade” (2021) “Bring Your Own Brigade” (2021) – Following the aftermath of the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest fire in California’s history, British film maker Lucy Walker explores…