US Politics
Media Elites to Assange: Fight for Your Own Hide
The Committee to Protect Journalists mimics the government and drops the jailed Wikileaks founder like a hot potato
By Ted Galen Carpenter
December 26, 2019
WikiLeaks...
Why Aren’t Americans Rising Up Like We Are Seeing Across the...
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
The waves of protests breaking out in country after country around the world beg the question: Why...
Alt-Right strategy: Counterrevolution in Europe, War in the World
Steve Bannon's Master Plan for Europe
When President Trump’s former strategist, Steve Bannon, was ousted from his White House post, he didn't disappear. He went...
Few U.S. presidents have been as amoral as Trump: Joseph Nye
By Javad Heirannia
January 14, 2020
Former U.S Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs says “some of Trump’s actions are not unprecedented in the...
Trump authorized Soleimani’s killing 7 months ago, with conditions
By Carol E. Lee and Courtney Kube
Jan 13 2020
President Donald Trump authorized the killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani seven months ago if...
Why Trump is escalating the US-Israeli war on Iran
How Israel Views Trump’s Strike Against Iran
By Bernard Avishai
January 9, 2020
In the United States, early analyses of the Trump Administration’s assassination of General Qassem...
John Kerry fact checks Trump’s lies about the Iran deal
John Kerry tells Lawrence O’Donnell that it was "always an option" to take out Soleimani, through several administrations, but "people made a judgment that...
Chaos. Even Esper denies rationale for Trump’ s war crime!
Esper Saw No Evidence Embassies Were Under Threat
January 12, 2020
es On Friday, President Trump said he believed that Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was plotting...
Rising in the Polls, Sanders Takes Jabs From Trump, Warren
12 January 2020
Bernie Sanders found himself on the receiving end of attacks from both President Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren on Sunday, a reflection...
Iran apologized, but Trump & other US presidents will never say...
By Finian Cunningham
11 Jan, 2020
Commendably, Iran has apologized for shooting down the passenger jet and killing all 176 people on board. It shows integrity...