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…
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…
by Don Pelton I’ve been almost exclusively focused on Ukraine lately because the US is now in greater danger of a nuclear war than it has been in my lifetime, and I say this as one who was twenty years old at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The following interview (by Amy…
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…
BY ANDREW BACEVICH Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch.com Dear Mr. President: I send greetings from the other side — and no, I don’t mean the other side of the aisle. I refer to the place where old politicians go to make amends for their sins. Apart from our shared Catholicism and affinity for…