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This Time It’s Different
This Time It’s Different Neither we nor our allies are prepared to fight all-out war with Russia, regionally or globally. An image of Russian President Vladimir Putin is displayed as U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about gas prices in the South Court Auditorium at the White House campus on June 22, 2022. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) […]
The Blob: Still Chasing After Pax Americana
The Blob: Still Chasing After Pax Americana After all the failure, they still look at our wars in the Middle East as some kind of golden age. I wish to call attention to an instructive essay about U.S. policy in the Middle East—instructive in the sense that it reveals the utterly impoverished nature of establishment thinking on […]
Did China Just Announce the End of U.S. Primacy in the Pacific?
Did China Just Announce the End of U.S. Primacy in the Pacific? Last week’s military parade previewed a series of game-changing weapons that could neutralize American seapower. Military vehicles carrying DF-17 ballistic missiles march during a parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China at Tiananmen Square on […]
George Orwell’s Dystopian Nightmare in China
George Orwell’s Dystopian Nightmare in China Beijing’s tyranny over its people is fast becoming more terrifying than anything in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Michael Hogue It has become fairly cliché to call China’s surveillance state—its artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition, the new “social credit system,” its cultural policing and re-education camps for Uyghur minorities—“something right out of George Orwell’s Nineteen […]
Is America Ready for John Bolton’s War With Iran?
Is America Ready for John Bolton’s War With Iran? Recently dispatched B-52s and ships are an act of theatrical bravado that ignore the real threat. Iranian Army in 2016. (Creative Commons/Wikimedia) National Security Advisor John Bolton’s announcement this week that the U.S. is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the U.S. […]
When Deutsche Bank’s Crisis Becomes Our Crisis
When Deutsche Bank’s Crisis Becomes Our Crisis Our friends in Europe seem totally incapable of addressing their failing financial sector. And that’s not good for anyone. By anandoart/Shutterstock Americans generally think of Europe first as a wonderful place to visit. They rarely ponder the economic and financial ties between the United States and European Union, but […]
The Death of the Internet
The Death of the Internet Intended to be open, free, and decentralized, it’s now dominated by a handful of companies that control what we see and what we can say. Credit: Frederic Legrand – COMEO / Shutterstock.com The internet was meant to be open, free, and decentralized, but today it is controlled by a few companies […]
The Coming Bankruptcy of the American Empire
The Coming Bankruptcy of the American Empire Better to bring the troops home on our terms than wait for a debt crisis to do it for us. Credit: Anneka/Shutterstock The chickens are coming home to roost. It’s only a question of when. Herbert Stein was chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under Presidents Richard Nixon […]
A Renaissance of Localism
A Renaissance of Localism The movement, once as small as the things it appreciates, is finding traction in our frenzied age. Town Hall meeting in Kentfield, CA, 2017.Photo credit: Fabrice Florin/Creative Commons People are at last beginning to pay attention to localism. The idea behind the term is old—ancient even—but it appears to be “having […]
Google Wants to Be Your Media Mommy
Google Wants to Be Your Media Mommy The company suggest it may have to protect us from the bad things that elected Trump and speech that makes us feel unsafe. Quietbits/ Shutterstock Google might soon add its terms of service to the First Amendment. A leakeddocument from the tech giant argues that because of a variety […]
Seymour Hersh and the Disappearing Iconoclast
Seymour Hersh and the Disappearing Iconoclast He won a Pulitzer for My Lai and cracked Abu Ghraib wide open. But this reporter is still a lonely breed. Journalist Seymour Hersh in 2009. Credit: Institute for Policy Studies/Flickr Seymour Hersh, Reporter: A Memoir, Sy Hersh. Knopf, June 2018, 368 pages When people are comforted by government lies, […]
Forget Trump: The Military-Industrial Complex is Still Running the Show With Russia
Forget Trump: The Military-Industrial Complex is Still Running the Show With Russia As the media fulminates, they fail to see how Trump has kept the usual machinery running. Katz/Shutterstock President Donald Trump has strengthened, not weakened, American military and economic opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin. That fact has been mostly unreported and it is […]
War Doesn’t Make Sense Anymore
War Doesn’t Make Sense Anymore It’s become obsolete, the days of conquest are behind us, yet the military-industrial complex grinds on all the same. Credit: Getmilitaryphotos/Shutterstock America spends more on its military than all its enemies put together yet it still can’t win wars. Failed adventures in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan have drained America’s power […]
For Peace With Putin, End America’s Pointless Wars
For Peace With Putin, End America’s Pointless Wars Ignore the establishment: Trump has a huge opportunity at his upcoming summit. Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump meet at the 2017 G-20 Hamburg Summit. Credit: Creative Commons/www.kremlin.ru. The upcoming summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is an overdue opportunity for the American president’s next bold peace […]
