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“Fractures, Fears and Failures:” World’s ruling elites stare into the abyss
BILL VAN AUKEN—The Bloomberg Billionaires Index published last month established that the fortunes of the world’s wealthiest 500 billionaires—many of ...
Full Spectrum Arrogance: US Bases Spanning the Globe
DAVID SWANSON—“Y’know, I watch a lot of basketball games because the University of Virginia is so darn good and I’m ...
El Salvador’s Worst Shitholes Are ‘Made in America’
My journalist’s hiking boots still have leftover feces and dirt from the ultimate shitholes of El Salvador: its mass graves ...
North Korea – an Agent of Peace ?
PETER KOENIG—Could this be an eye-opener for the world, showing how fake the entire UN-operation has become, how subservient to ...
Populism from the Left and the Militarization of Europe
JOSEF SKALA—To this day the left remains the victim of the so-called “new” thinking invented by Gorbachev and his associates ...
Gabbard: North Korea Has Nukes Because They Saw What The US Did To Libya
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—I won’t hold my breath, but I just wanted to remind my fellow humans that there are other options ...
World War Three, by Mistake (The New Yorker)
ERIC SCHLOSSER— My greatest concern is the lack of public awareness about this existential threat, the absence of a vigorous ...
Gabbard: ‘Unacceptable’ false alarm missile warning in Hawaii underscores need for talks with North Korea
The false ballistic missile warning in Hawaii was "unacceptable" and points to a need for President Donald Trump to negotiate ...
‘Whole state was terrified’: Hawaii urges ‘tough & quick’ reprisal for bogus missile alert
The mistake came at “a time of heightened tensions” between the US and North Korea – a fact not lost ...
Democrats and the End(s) of Politics
ROB URIE—Despite the heated rhetoric, Donald Trump’s policies are nearly identical to those of the national Democrats. That Democratic Party ...
US Humiliation of South Korea
DAVID W. PEAR—Peace is not anything that Washington's plutocratic interests want to hear, although the South Korean people like it ...
Freedom for Julian Assange!
BILL VAN AUKEN—The US ruling establishment not only hounded Assange, but sentenced Private Chelsea Manning to 35 years in prison ...