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What It Means to Be a Socialist
What It Means to Be a Socialist Chris Hedges gave this speech Sunday at a Santa Ana, Calif., event sponsored by the Green Party of Orange County. We live in a revolutionary moment. The disastrous economic and political experiment that attempted to organize human behavior around the dictates of the global marketplace has failed. The […]
Secret files: British government courting Arab tyrants, fossil fuel interests
Secret files: British government courting Arab tyrants, fossil fuel interests Official documents show how oil and business interests trump democracy A range of official government documents released under Freedom of Information (FOI) expose how the British government is valiantly promoting democracy in the Middle East: by courting the region’s most vociferous opponents of democracy. The […]
American Petroleum Institute Touts Oil Exports to Fend Off Iran, Russia Despite API Members Tied to Both Countries
American Petroleum Institute Touts Oil Exports to Fend Off Iran, Russia Despite API Members Tied to Both Countries The American Petroleum Institute (API) has launched a new advertising campaign in its ongoing push to oust the U.S. oil exports ban in place since 1975. One of the most recent ads, titled “Crude Oil Exports and National Security” on YouTube, starts off with […]
Rousseff Coup Could Sink Brazil, Emerging Markets
Rousseff Coup Could Sink Brazil, Emerging Markets Dolls in likeness of Lula da Silva, Rouseff. Source: The Guardian Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff’s approval rating has plummeted to 8% amid the country’s worst recession in two decades. Her job is at risk too. Earlier this week opponents filed a petition to impeach Rousseff due to allegations of corruption […]
Saudi air raids kill dozens of Yemeni civilians amid humanitarian crisis
Saudi air raids kill dozens of Yemeni civilians amid humanitarian crisis A man sits on cars damaged by a Saudi-led air strike in Sanaa, Yemen, September 19, 2015 © Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters The latest Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen have left dozens of civilians dead and nearly 160 injured at a time that sees medical […]
US Readies Battle Plans For Baltic War With Russia: Report
US Readies Battle Plans For Baltic War With Russia: Report One of the most interesting – or perhaps “worrisome” is the better word – things about Moscow’s move to increase its support for the Bashar al-Assad regime as it battles to wrest control of large swaths of territory in Syria from Islamic State and other […]
Greece Heads Back To The Polls: Full Sunday Election Preview
Greece Heads Back To The Polls: Full Sunday Election Preview For months on end, all anyone could talk about was Greece. Throughout the spring and summer, the country’s fate in the eurozone was considered the main risk to global markets if not for what the financial fallout from a Grexit would be (that risk was […]
Lost Lessons from a Toddler’s Death
Lost Lessons from a Toddler’s Death The world’s conscience was touched by the photo of a toddler who drowned while fleeing the war in Syria — and Europe’s cohesion is threatened by the growing flood of Syrian refugees. But Western leaders won’t let go of their “regime change” fixation which is making matters worse, writes […]
Another World is Inevitable
Another World is Inevitable I don’t normally comment in these essays on the political affairs of other countries. As I’ve noted more than once here, the last thing the rest of the world needs is one more clueless American telling everyone else on the planet what to do. What’s more, as the United States busies itself […]
Was Turkey Behind Syria Sarin Attack?
Was Turkey Behind Syria Sarin Attack? From the Archive: As Washington pundits again demand Syrian President Assad’s ouster, a top talking point is that he “gassed his own people” in a Sarin attack in 2013. But that rush to judgment was picked apart by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh and others, as Robert Parry reported in spring 2014. In late August […]
Should Texas Secede? Texans May Have Ballot Question to “Reassert Its Status As Independent Nation”
Should Texas Secede? Texans May Have Ballot Question to “Reassert Its Status As Independent Nation” The question of secession on a ballot it is a one. Secession might make a powerful statement to voice defiance government tyranny, but it could also set off sparks. Now, it appears that the biggest and most independent-minded state in […]
Do Political Systems Ever Work?
Do Political Systems Ever Work? QUESTION: HI! I’ve Just recently become aware of your existence. Subsequently my knowledge beyond your blog and “the forecaster” is limited. Someone one said “democracy is the worst system imaginable – except from All the others” My question to you : have we ever in this world, really had any […]
Gulf states lead call for regime change in Syria
Gulf states lead call for regime change in Syria Though the Gulf has called for the overthrow of Assad, sources suggest Obama agreed to Putin’s increased support for him The Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the world’s second largest intergovernmental body after the United Nations, issued a dramatic call this Sunday for the overthrow of the regime […]
War is the Health of the State
War is the Health of the State The Misfortune of Being Born Into a State In an essay titled “The State”, Randolph Bourne, an American writer, made a distinction between a country and a state that I find crucial. He described one’s country as “an inescapable group into which we are born”. In his view, […]
Ecuador vs. Chevron, By Way of Canada
Ecuador vs. Chevron, By Way of Canada In the latest twist to a 22-year-old legal saga, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled on September 4th that Ecuadorian villagers can seek to enforce an Ecuadorian legal judgment in Canada for $9.5 billion against Chevron Corporation for polluting the Amazon rainforest. The plaintiffs were successful in arguing that since […]
