Donald Trump’s national emergency heralds a new era in our nation’s history—one with frightening parallels to the Roman Empire.
As the world's powers gather for their annual summit, demonstrators denounce imperialism, austerity and more. A dispatch from Buenos Aires.
World War I caused deaths on a then-unimaginable scale, sowed the seeds of WWII and forever restricted our civil liberties.
By 1898, a great land empire had been forged through brutal conquest. Now the American gaze turned to foreign lands.
Decades after the Vietnam War, natives of the Mekong Delta share their stories of loss, hardship and enduring suffering.
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.
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