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Free Speech and Its Discontents
Free Speech and Its Discontents
A government that can silence the speech you hate today can silence the speech you love tomorrow
26.09.2025
Our Age of Unreason
Our Age of Unreason
We have lost that connection between reason and morality …. We have decisively lost our idea of the commonweal as the anchor from which reason will make its case.
23.09.2025
Who Benefits from Kirk Murder?
Who Benefits from Kirk Murder?
As of now, we have only our questions about the who and the why of the murder of Charlie Kirk. But questions, the right ones, have a power all their own.
22.09.2025
The Department of War Is Back!
The Department of War Is Back!
But Victoryless Culture Remains
19.09.2025
When Tony Blair Agreed to Back ‘Terrorists’
When Tony Blair Agreed to Back ‘Terrorists’
Blair’s government aided forces against Yugoslavia whose leaders are now on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, writes Mark Curtis.
19.09.2025
The West’s Hypocritical Opposition to Ukraine’s Forced Territorial Concessions
The West’s Hypocritical Opposition to Ukraine’s Forced Territorial Concessions
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has consistently ruled out making any territorial concession as part of a peace accord to end his country’s war with Russia.
08.09.2025
Did the Atomic Bombs End World War II?
Did the Atomic Bombs End World War II?
This is a fundamental question, as its answer is closely tied to the legitimacy of using nuclear weapons. A global reckoning with this issue could lay the groundwork for an international legal ban.
05.09.2025
The Feds Defend Their Tortures Again
The Feds Defend Their Tortures Again
While the public’s attention this summer has been drawn to masked ICE agents arresting folks without warrants.
04.09.2025
What message does China’s V-Day military parade send to the world?
What message does China’s V-Day military parade send to the world?
On September 3, in the name of the nation, we hold a grand military parade marking the 80th Anniversary of the Victory in the Chinese People's Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, commemorating that arduous and monumental triumph.
03.09.2025
Trump’s military grip tightens on Washington
Trump’s military grip tightens on Washington
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance, greet members of the National Guard, at Union Station in Washington
21.08.2025
How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine
How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine
In February 2016, Donald Trump scandalized Republican Party elites at a CNN town hall event in Columbus, Ohio.
20.08.2025
Sixty-Three Years, Nothing Has Changed
Sixty-Three Years, Nothing Has Changed
Exactly 63 years ago, on a summer afternoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Kennedy White House adviser, Arthur Schlesinger, returned to Harvard where he had, until recently, been a professor of history.
20.08.2025
The Neocolonial Trap
The Neocolonial Trap
Burkina Faso has been trapped in neocolonial underdevelopment for nearly all of its post-independence history – can the new government of Ibrahim Traoré follow in Thomas Sankara’s footsteps and change course?
19.08.2025
Will Obama's Coup d'état Bring Consequences to the Deep State?
Will Obama's Coup d'état Bring Consequences to the Deep State?
Any street magician will tell you that the key to any trick is drawing attention to one hand, while you masquerade with the other.
07.08.2025
Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror
Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror
Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time.
06.08.2025
The Enduring Myth of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The Enduring Myth of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
After the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki On Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, there then ensued a U.S. propaganda campaign to claim the slaughter of more than 200,000 people saved lives, writes John LaForge.
06.08.2025
How to Read the Durham Appendix
How to Read the Durham Appendix
The method of those who built Russiagate’s tower of lies and disinformation grows clearer and the list of their names longer.
05.08.2025
Clapper’s Claptrap
Clapper’s Claptrap
The former U.S. director of national intelligence told CNN new Russiagate revelations were “nonsense” and “absurd” but he wasn’t challenged on any details the way Ray McGovern once did back in 2018.
04.08.2025
Washington Takes on the BRICS
Washington Takes on the BRICS
Trump’s lashing out at the group of non-Western nations is so clumsy, so off the mark, so utterly unaware of where the hands are on history’s clock.
23.07.2025
From Carthage To Berlin, A Modest Proposal
From Carthage To Berlin, A Modest Proposal
The First Punic War began in 264 BC, lasted 25 years, and was fought between the Romans and the Carthaginians, a civilization in what is today modern Tunisia.
18.07.2025
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Stop Netanyahu Before He Gets Us All Killed
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Ukraine war escalates, as Russia warns of nuclear war should peace talks fail
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Bipartisan Group of Senators Question Legal Authority of Biden’s New War With the Houthis
Bipartisan Group of Senators Question Legal Authority of Biden’s New War With the Houthis
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British government prepares to send troops into the war against Russia
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Thousands dead and 10,000 missing in Libyan floods
Is China's export control a precise counterattack against US, Japan and the Netherlands?
Is China's export control a precise counterattack against US, Japan and the Netherlands?
Lavrov Says Russia Must Keep in Mind That F-16s Can Carry Nuclear Weapons
Lavrov Says Russia Must Keep in Mind That F-16s Can Carry Nuclear Weapons
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Who Should Take Political Responsibility?
US doesn’t See Ukraine as NATO Ally, but as de Facto Cannon Fodder
US doesn’t See Ukraine as NATO Ally, but as de Facto Cannon Fodder
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