by Rick Sterling Reprinted with permission of the author National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is arguably the key person driving US foreign policy. He was mentored by Hillary Clinton with regime changes in Honduras, Libya and Syria. He was the link between Nuland and Biden during the 2014 coup in Ukraine. As reported by Seymour Hersh,…
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…
Because I am way past any hope of ever being brilliant, it cheers me up to listen to economist Michael Hudson, who (in his mid-eighties) is several years older than me. Not only is he brilliant, he’s very skilled at “following the money” and explaining where it leads to those of us with ordinary…
To those of you who feel that because Putin is evil, we should never negotiate with him, that to negotiate with him is to reward him for his evil acts, I ask you this: Would you have advised John Kennedy not to negotiate with Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis, because that would have…