Ten million Americans declare unemployment in two weeks and all your government does is give you a $1,200 "advance" on your tax return while bailing out corporations with the largest wealth transfer ever, and some of you are still shrieking about Russia and China. Pathetic
"The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable," Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which you can watch
This is a speech I gave yesterday at a demonstration for Assange with the Socialist Equality Party Australia.Tomorrow in the UK a judge will start the process of answering a very important question. It’s a question that many of us knew was the heart of this
The United States and Iran entered into a direct military exchange for the first time ever with the drone assassination of General Qassem Soleimani last week and a retaliatory strike from Iran via surface-to-surface missiles upon two US military bases on Wednesday.As usual it was
I love my job. Really, I do. But writing about US military agendas for a living often brings one into contact with such staggering stupidity that all you can do is pause and wonder how our species survived past the invention of the pointy stick.By
Following a vote by the Iraqi parliament to remove foreign troops from the nation, the US president threatened to destroy Iraq's economy in retaliation and to refuse to leave unless an expensive military base worth billions of dollars was paid for.“If they do ask us to
President Trump has been steadfastly assuring the world that the United States government does not wish to start the war it has already started by assassinating Iran's top general.“We are a peace-loving nation and my administration remains firmly committed to establishing peace and harmony among
The US has admitted to assassinating Iran's most beloved military leader, General Qassem Soleimani, in a drone strike which seems very likely to ignite a full-scale war. Six others are also reported killed, including Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.According to the Pentagon, Trump personally ordered
Start over in the new year. Also, start over at any other time during the rest of the year, whenever you want, as often as you like. Time is an illusion anyway.I cannot assure you that things will get better in the '20s. I can't
Depending on whose political echo chamber I happen to be arguing with on a given day, one common criticism I run into a fair bit which many of my readers have surely also encountered is that I put all my energy into criticizing the foreign