The Truth About NATO, Redacted Tonight by Lee Camp
"Organized mass human murder is not better or nicer when it has a NATO banner next to it."
Your Complete Guide to the N.Y. Times’ Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America
Do the U.S. and its allies have a moral or ethical right to determine the political future of Venezuela?
Nuclear Threat Grows as US Prepares to Withdraw From INF Treaty, by Jon Letman
“I think it’s very clear now that … the nuclear problem is coming back with a vengeance.” Wellerstein pointed out that, owing in part to a decades-old aura of secrecy surrounding nuclear weapons, many people have a sense they aren’t well-informed on nuclear issues, with some Americans admitting they deliberately avoid nuclear weapons-related news.
A N.Y. Times Story Just Accidentally Shredded the Russiagate Hysteria, by Lee Camp
It made our mass media pundits look like hardened fools. But they have kept spouting their nonsense anyway, hoping no one notices the soup dripping down their faces.
Report from the First International Conference Against US/NATO Military Bases, by WAMM
US military domination worldwide. Is it necessary? Negative effects on countries with US bases.
Bases, Bases, Everywhere … Except in the Pentagon’s Report, by Nick Turse
“U.S. bases abroad cost upwards of $50 billion per year to build and maintain, which is money that could be used to address pressing needs at home in education, health care, housing, and infrastructure,”
Top 10 Reasons Not to Love NATO, by David Swanson
The New York Times loves NATO, but should you?
VA to shift billions of dollars to private care for veterans
Critics, which include nearly all of the major veterans’ organizations, say that paying for care in the private sector would starve the 153-year-old veterans’ health care system, causing many hospitals to close.
Minnesota Peace Action Coalition Statement on Trump’s Troop Withdrawal Plans
It’s clear the question is not “how” the troops will be brought home, but whether they will be brought home at all.
How a NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans to Wage War on Independent Media
Newsguard gives Fox News high marks for accuracy. ...examination of this organization reveals that it is funded by and deeply connected to the U.S. government, neo-conservatives, and powerful monied interests, all of whom have been working overtime since the 2016 election to silence dissent to American forever-wars and corporate-led oligarchy.
Exposing the Corporate Bribery Network, on Sheer Intelligence
RS: Adam Smith in "The Wealth of Nations" talked about, you know, the invisible hand; that no one should be able to control the action. But the multinational corporations, and they are dominant now—they want a hand. They want it controlled. DM: They have an invisible hand through bribes. There isn’t a free market that we think, there isn’t free and fair competition. In fact, it’s all—I don’t want to say it’s all rigged, but it’s greatly rigged through bribes.
Update on ALEC, Center for Media and Democracy
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). What corporations have quit ALEC? Is your legislator a member of ALEC? and more.