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…
Last November, Amy Goodman interviewed historian Alfred McCoy about his current work (see video below), recently released as his latest book, “To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change.” In it, McCoy describes the common factor found in every ruling empire — or world “hegemon” — over the last 500 years, and that…
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…
If Jimmy Dore seems gleeful here, it is not because he is especially pro-war or pro-Russian. It is more that his reporting has been so at odds with the predominant propaganda slant of Western media (which has pushed the tragically false notion that Russia is losing badly) that he is relieved to see the…
[Editor’s Note: When I first read this worrisome essay by economist Michael Hudson (author of “Super Imperialism“), I thought “Whoops!” Surely this is not the result intended by the delusional neocons and other war hawks advising the Biden administration in their decades-long goal of regime change in Russia. In their fantasy, disregarding the legitimacy…