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…
I’m only passing this on to you because the hands on the Doomsday Clock are just 100 seconds to midnight and our current president seems more recklessly confrontational with our nuclear foes than any other president in my lifetime. In the following short TED Talk (titled “I’ve studied nuclear war for 35 years —…
Editor’s Note: Chris Hedges is among the most trustworthy journalists writing on domestic and foreign affairs today. “In his early career, Hedges worked as a freelance war correspondent in Central America for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, and Dallas Morning News. Hedges reported for The New York Times from 1990 to 2005, and served as the Times Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief during the wars…
Editor’s Note: Professor Sachs mentions in passing the blowback effect of the sanctions, which seem to be hurting the US and western nations more than they are hurting Russia. This theme is explored in great depth by Professor Michael Hudson, who talks about the coming “de-dollarization” of many non-Western nations. In this deep sense,…
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…