“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…
This interview with Max Blumenthal (author of “The Management of Savagery“) is well worth hearing in its entirety in Aaron Maté’s “Push Back” podcast, here: “US claim of ‘Russian Bounty’ plot in Afghanistan is dubious and dangerous” (Youtube) In the meantime, here are some choice quotes: AARON MATÉ: What do you make of the…
Fear of Falling Can Making Black Lives Matter Rescue a Failing State? By Rebecca Gordon Reprinted with permission from Tomdispatch.com You know that feeling when you trip on the street and instantly sense that you’re about to crash hard and there’s no way to prevent it? As gravity has its way with you, all you…