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…
An Interview with Jonathan Schell on America’s Vietnam Debacle By Chris Appy [The following interview from Chris Appy’s 2003 book Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides is used with the kind permission of his publisher, Viking Penguin, and is posted at TomDispatch.com as a memorial to Jonathan Schell, who died on March 25th, and to his work,…