Ralph Nader: Weaning the State Department Off War-making
Perhaps, the State Department can host a meeting with Veterans for Peace to remind itself of its original mission.
US ‘Disinformation’ Claims Do Exactly What Enemies Are Accused of: Distract From Covid-19 Failures
"While the foreign misinformation in question isn’t clear, the purpose of the domestic narratives surrounding said misinformation is."
Revival Of US Cold War-Era Committee To Echo McCarthy Fear Tactics
Instead of hunting legitimate terror and espionage threats, the group was much more likely to focus its efforts on trying to intimidate, slander and discredit law-abiding organizations that promote cooperation and dialogue between Washington and Moscow...
Clinton Emails Show Zeal for Syrian War by Google, Israel, Team Hillary
ix years later and take a look at Syria. These are the breathtakingly disastrous results you achieve when the U.S. government and Google formulate U.S. foreign policy together behind closed doors.
Tomgram: David Vine, A Permanent Infrastructure for Permanent War
The Bases of War in the Middle East From Carter to the Islamic State, 35 Years of Building Bases and Sowing Disaster By David Vine  TomDispatch.com  November 13, 2014 An anti-war protest in 2010. (Photo: Fibonacci Blue/cc/flickr) Common Dreams Introduction by Nick Nurse  In a September address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Barack More
American Unexceptionalism: Blackwater
The Blackwater scandal shows the U.S. isn’t immune from behaviors we abhor in others. By William Saletan Slate.com  June 30, 2014 Blackwater was founded 17 years ago by Erik Prince, a former Navy SEAL. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Two years ago, in a speech to the Wisconsin Faith and Freedom Coalition, Mitt Romney accused President Obama of More
Karma Of Dissent: An Interview With Ann Wright
"Here's somebody that's spent a lot of years of her life in the military and the diplomatic corps and is now willing to speak about peace and challenge the rationale that America needs to have war in order to be the dominant power in the world." By Ann Wright (about the author)  opednews.com June 5, 2014 In late More
â–¶ Amy Goodman: “The Most Important Journalist You’ve Never Heard Of”: Remembering William Worthy
[youtube=http://youtu.be/F1rQPktqLYM] By Amy Goodman Video Interview  May 20, 2014   truthout.org Originally appeared in Democracy Now! We spend the hour remembering the pioneering journalist William Worthy, who died earlier this month at the age of 92. During the height of the Cold War, Worthy defied the U.S. government by reporting from the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, Iran, North Vietnam More
â–¶ Amy Goodman: "The Most Important Journalist You've Never Heard Of": Remembering William Worthy
[youtube=http://youtu.be/F1rQPktqLYM] By Amy Goodman Video Interview  May 20, 2014   truthout.org Originally appeared in Democracy Now! We spend the hour remembering the pioneering journalist William Worthy, who died earlier this month at the age of 92. During the height of the Cold War, Worthy defied the U.S. government by reporting from the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, Iran, North Vietnam More
Oil Industry Conjures Illusion of Public Support for KXL Using ALEC Politicians
ALEC Pushes State Resolutions as Oil Industry Ghostwrites Opinion Pieces for Legislators Posted by NICK SURGEY  PRWatch.org  March 12, 2014   Millions of U.S. citizens have voiced their opposition to the Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline in recent months, with more than 2 million publiccomments opposing the project hand delivered to the State Department last week. At the same More
Noam Chomsky | Security and State Power
Joint National Security Council meeting, May 25, 2011. (Photo: The Prime Minister's Office / Flickr) This article, the first of two parts, is adapted from a lecture by Noam Chomsky on Feb. 28 sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara, Calif. By Noam Chomsky, Truthout.org | Op-Ed  03 March 2014 A leading principle of international relations More
Noam Chomsky | Security and State Power
Joint National Security Council meeting, May 25, 2011. (Photo: The Prime Minister's Office / Flickr) This article, the first of two parts, is adapted from a lecture by Noam Chomsky on Feb. 28 sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara, Calif. By Noam Chomsky, Truthout.org | Op-Ed  03 March 2014 A leading principle of international relations More