American Fascism, by Todd E. Pierce
Be especially careful of those from the “Right” who promote Trumpism as non-interventionist “realism and restraint,” and as anti-NeoConservatives while they simultaneously celebrate and promote ultra-militarism..
Glenn Greenwald: Kamala Affirms Support For Biden’s Israel Policy; Abuses of Palestinian Prisoners
Vice President Harris, there's all of these crises that are brewing. What is your view on them? How would you handle these? Would you do anything different than what Joe Biden did? Would you do anything? Would you continue the same? Just basic questions that every single presidential candidate in my lifetime has repeatedly had to answer.
U.S. troops are losing a war with their deadliest enemy, writes Nick Turse
Out of 2,530 soldiers who died between 2014 and 2019 from causes ranging from car crashes to drug overdoses to cancer, 35 percent — 883 troops — took their own lives. Just 96 soldiers died in combat during those same six years.
College Demonstrations: Stopping a Genocide
Don’t let the media get it twisted. It’s not about encampments. It’s about stopping a genocide.
What Is This “New Russian Space Threat”? by Joel Weisberg
Exaggerating and hyping a “new” Russian threat revives Cold War fears, moves us further away from negotiation and cooperation, and provides the rationale that we’ve seen countless times before to increase military spending. This article examines if, and how seriously we need to take media reports. Image: 1957, Russian satirical magazine Krokofdil More
Making a Killing: Weapons of War, by Brian Chval
The return on jobs is paltry at best, while sectors that create far more jobs relative to the money spent, such as education, green energy, health care, and infrastructure – sectors that could actually serve to create a better future – are grossly underfunded.
WILPF on WATER: UN Rapporteur, Indigenous Women of RISE, San Francisco Bay,
Military money could be used for human needs in this country and for the protection of the environment and the ecology and water for all people and living creatures.
To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Responses to the debate
Trump, 78, has been on the political stage for eight years marked by chaos, corruption, and incivility. Why go back to that?
Chris Hedges: You Saved Julian Assange
This sustained pressure — during a London hearing in 2020, to my delight, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser of the Old Bailey court overseeing Julian’s case, complained about the noise protestors were making in the street outside — shines a continuous light on injustice and exposes the amorality of the ruling class.
Glenn Greenwald: Julian Assange’s Plea Deal: EXPLAINED
Unless you are somebody who has been in [Assange’s] position and has shown a willingness to sacrifice even more than Assange has ─ nobody has any standing to object to what Assange chose to do [in pleading guilty to charges of espionage] but that doesn't mean that the decision they forced him into [for freedom] isn't incredibly dangerous to the Press freedoms that the United States repeatedly claims around the world that it protects.
Greg Palast: If We Don’t Expose it, this old Klan Scam Will Pick Your President, by Thom Hartmann
A note from Greg Palast: The Trump plan for 2024 is taken from the KKK plan of 1946, when the Klan incorporated itself in Georgia as “Vigilantes Inc.” specifically to eliminate every Black citizen from the voter rolls. And now, a new Vigilantes Inc. operation is back — for Trump. The exact same plan as the KKK 1940’s scheme — now powered by billionaires’ loot.
Nero’s Guests in Palestine, by Chris Hedges
Hatred is a dangerous political commodity. The Palestinian “human animals,” when eradicated or subdued, will be replaced by Jewish apostates and traitors. A politics of hatred creates a permanent instability, exploited by those seeking the destruction of civil society.