US politics

By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Think of it as the chicken-or-the-egg question for the ages: Do very real threats to the United States inadvertently benefit the military-industrial complex or does the national security state, by its very nature, conjure up inflated threats to feed that defense machine? Back in 2008, […]

Africa

Why Black Panther’s Wakanda Is the Black Utopia We’ve Been Waiting For

contributors

By Ingrid LaFleur | ( Yes! Magazine) | – – Before the film was released, the nation of Wakanda was taking shape in our minds. Ingrid LaFleur posted Feb 07, 2018 “When I wondered if imagination could be necessary for the revolution and transformation, you said yes, you said our dreams and visions matter, they […]

Featured

Mass Shootings and Gang Murders have unrestricted Semi-Automatic Weapons in Common

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Revised Can anything be done about the phenomenon of “mass shootings?” These killings have plagued the US for decades. The problem is getting substantially worse over time. The first time I published a version of this column, in 2012, only 88 people were killed in mass […]

Pentagon

Ending America’s Disastrous Role in Syria

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By Jeffrey D. Sachs | ( Project Syndicate) | – – America’s official narrative has sought to conceal the scale and calamitous consequences of US efforts to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. That is understandable, because US efforts are in blatant violation of international law, which bars UN member states from supporting military action to […]

Campaign Finance

New Survey Finding: Trump Likely owed his 2016 victory to ‘fake news’

contributors

Democratic defectors to Trump believed Hillary was ill or sold weapons to ISIS

African-Americans

Worse than Russian Hack: GOP Voter Suppression planned in 20 States

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By Jen Herrick | ( Otherwords.org) This year, at least 20 states are considering laws that would make it harder to vote. When President Trump created the “Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity” last spring — and put notorious vote suppressor Kris Kobach at the helm — voting rights advocates had decades of good reasons […]

Democracy

Russian campaign Interference looks like ISIL in Polarizing Techniques

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Mueller inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election campaign has now brought indictments against specific Russian individuals and organizations, including the crony of Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as “Putin’s chef” because the Russian president throws his business large numbers of high level government […]

Donald Trump

Russiagate or Deep State? What Some Progressives Get Wrong on Russia

contributors

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The bizarre denialism of some on the left and right about Russiagate doesn’t bode well for the future of American politics. When it comes to the Russiagate scandal, progressives usually take one of two positions. Glenn Greenwald talking Russiagate on Fox News’ Tucker […]

Featured

Let’s remember the Schoolchildren US & Russian bombs are killing, too

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US-backed Saudi-led war on Yemen is keeping two million children out of school (Yemen is a country of 27 million). Worse, schools and schoolchildren have repeatedly been struck from the air by Saudi, UAE, Moroccan and Jordanian pilots using American-supplied planes and bombs, in a […]