Could the U.S. and China Face an Unintended Blowup in the Western Pacific in the Biden Years? BY MICHAEL KLARE Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch.com The leaders of China and the United States certainly don’t seek a war with each another. Both the Biden administration and the regime of Chinese President Xi Jinping view economic…
Life in a Wounded and Wounding Land BY TOM ENGELHARDT Here’s one of the things I now do every morning. I go to the online Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center and check out the figures there — global coronavirus cases and deaths, U.S. coronavirus cases and deaths. And I do so the way that, not so long…
“By Juan Cole “Eric Schmitt, Maggie Haberman, David E. Sanger, Helene Cooper and Lara Jakes at the New York Times get the scoop. Their sources in the White House tell them that last Thursday, in a meeting with his senior advisers, Trump abruptly asked them if there were options for a US strike on Iran’s…
By Don Pelton A “Bag of Marbles” is another one of those WWII movies that invariably makes me grateful that we in the United States have never lived under a fascist regime … and now I have to say “so far.” It’s that caveat that makes this story still relevant for our perilous time,…
Editor’s Note: If the article below by Caitlin Johnstone, about the growing risk of nuclear war, frightens you … good. It should. Now that the Russiagate “psyop” has been widely debunked (as Matt Taibbi points out, by journalists such as Glenn Greenwald, Michael Tracey, Aaron Mate, Rania Khalek, Max Blumenthal “and others”) Professor Stephen…