The question of who is responsible for causing the Ukraine war has been a deeply contentious issue since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The answer to this question matters enormously because the war has been a disaster for a variety of reasons, the most important of which is…
Annie Jacobsen (born June 28, 1967) is an American investigative journalist, author, and a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist. She was a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine from 2009 until 2012. Jacobsen writes about war, weapons, security, and secrets. Jacobsen is best known as the author of the 2011 non-fiction book, Area 51: An Uncensored…
[ “We know from history that it’s far easier to destroy than to create, far easier to kill than to preserve. Yet when countries make genocide or ecocide (from nuclear winter) possible and defensible (as a sign of uncompromising ‘toughness’ and perhaps the defense of ‘freedom’), you know that their…
The U.S. has intentionally caused the most threatening, destructive and completely unnecessary war in its history. It is destroying a major nation and putting the world at risk for nuclear annihilation. Here is some blunt, invaluable straight-talk from the brilliant, courageous, highly-respected Jeffrey Sachs. Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University…
Last Friday, I addressed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Below is the video of my statement, along with a transcript. If you are interested in my immediate feelings on speaking to the UN Security Council – a mix of gratitude, anger and despondency – you can listen to my interview from…
With the 24/7 propaganda saturating the airwaves of all media channels in the West, we are required to look for alternative sources of reliable information about the conflict in Ukraine, the role and agenda of the US and NATO, the prospects for both further escalation and ultimately for peace in…
“I think the situation we face today in the world is much more dangerous than it was during the Cold War,” warns political realist John J. Mearsheimer. John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell…
[ This opinion piece is a reprint, originally appearing at Common Dreams ] There are three basic problems with the CIA: its objectives, methods, and unaccountability. Its operational objectives are whatever the CIA or the President of the United States defines to be in the U.S. interest at a given…
[ This interview originally appeared at Truthdig November 2, 2023. ] ‘What Does One Do When Both Options Are Catastrophic?’: An Interview With Cornel West Author, academic and public intellectual Dr. Cornel West has long been a fiery fixture of America’s political discourse. Proselytizing and pronouncing in the Biblical prophetic…
Whenever Joe Biden speaks, you have to make sure your bullshit detector is switched on, to borrow Hemingway’s pungent phrase. As is well-documented, our president has spent his public life making it up as he goes along. No surprise, there was a lot of boilerplate junk in the two much-noted…