The Last Time Democracy Almost Died, by Jill Lepore
"It’s a paradox of democracy that the best way to defend it is to attack it, to ask more of it, by way of criticism, protest, and dissent."
Was it Just? America and Her Suicidal Combat Veterans, by Matthew Hoh
"The cost of war, to many veterans, is a deep and permanent wounding of the soul and the conscience."
Do Haitian Black Lives Matter to Us, by Mary Beaudoin
A look at the past history and immediate unrest in Haiti before the recent assassination of Moise.
Media Applaud the New Cold Wars—but Could US Be More Aggressive, Please? by Gregory Shupak
"US media are fixin’ for a fight with China, Russia—or both."
Biden’s Bombing of Iraq and Syria Only Serves the Weapons Industry, by Glenn Greenwald
"The U.S. government is a lawless entity. It violates the law, including its own Constitution, whenever it wants. The requirement that no wars be fought absent congressional authority is not some ancillary bureaucratic annoyance..."
Debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitic, by Peter Beinart
"If antisemitism and anti-Zionism are both conceptually different and, in practice, often espoused by different people, why are politicians such as Macron responding to rising antisemitism by calling anti-Zionism a form of bigotry?"
A People’s Guide to the War Industry -5: Portfolio of Conflicts
"They ignored the real threat: The U.S. Armed Forces’ rampant carbon-based military activity contributes to anthropogenic climate change, which melts Arctic ice, which opens up northern sea lanes, into which the Pentagon projects its polluting arsenal, which puts more carbon in the atmosphere."
A People’s Guide to the War Industry -3: Bribery and Propaganda
When war is your business, peace is your enemy, writes Christian Sorensen. Third in a five-part series on the military-industrial-congressional complex.
Biden Dangerously Accelerating the New Cold War with China, by Joseph Gerson
"While there is much in Joe Biden's and the Democratic Party's domestic policy agenda to be admired and supported, rooting it in Trump initiated anti-China hysteria undercuts our national security."
People of conscience: Palestinians ask you to boycott Israel, by Omar Barghouti
"BDS has drastically redefined solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality, as an ethical obligation to end complicity, above everything else. In the face of flagrant oppression anywhere..."
The Heat: Oliver Stone on history of U.S. intervention
Kennedy vowed to "shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces."
Chris Hedges: Don’t Be Fooled By Joe Biden
"It is not until people are reintegrated into the society, not until corporate and oligarchic control over our educational, political and media systems are removed, not until we recover the ethic of the common good, that we have any hope of rebuilding the positive social bonds that foster a healthy society."