Monstrous U.S. war crimes since the early 1950s have gone down George Orwell's "memory hole." Now, we have no concept of empathy—or reality.
Despite what we may hear from the media, Republicans and Democrats themselves, the Democratic Party is not "the left" but just another slave to the corporate capitalism that is leading us to destruction.
Iran has become the primary target of American antagonism, when Saudi Arabia, an even more repressive regime, remains a close ally.
Just because Donald Trump is using the recent chemical attack as an excuse to bomb Syria does not mean the attack didn't happen. We need to acknowledge the reality of Syrian suffering at the hands of Assad, Putin and the U.S.
Washington is answering this imperial existential question the only way it can, with its awesome war machine, oiled by lies.
The same racist, warmongering social forces prevail as during Martin Luther King Jr.'s time.
John Pilger doubts the British government's claim that Russia attacked a Russian ex-spy and his daughter with a nerve agent in England.
U.S. politics in the era of imperial decline will be nasty, stupid, petty and racist—just as we are already experiencing.
The apathy and ignorance of Americans enable a militarized nation to wage forever wars.
The term "intersectionality" has become a kind of brood parasite. It mimics just enough of left-feminist rhetoric to deceive the unwary.
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