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Getting it Wrong on Russia

Getting it Wrong on Russia

Sy Hersh’s new article “Putin’s Long War,” is bad for peace. When a reporter becomes hostage to his sources, the results are little more than weaponized propaganda.
26.01.2026

Free Speech & Its Enemies

Free Speech & Its Enemies

Europe is convulsing as its “centrist” authoritarians impose an unprecedented regime of suppression of speech, but the mainstream media in America is silent about it.
31.12.2025

Peace President? Yeah, Right.

Peace President? Yeah, Right.

On December 17, surrounded by festive holiday decorations, US president Donald Trump delivered an upbeat — one might even say manic — address to the nation, preempting — and enraging fans of — network TV shows such as Survivor, The Floor, and Christmas in Nashville.
29.12.2025

Tucker Carlson and the Freedom of Speech

Tucker Carlson and the Freedom of Speech

Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate Democrats that, if passed, would record the sense of the Senate as condemning the media superstar Tucker Carlson because of the political, historical and cultural opinions of a guest on Carlson’s podcast.
18.12.2025

The Richest Men in the World Are Media Moguls

The Richest Men in the World Are Media Moguls

Alan MacLeod on the capture of media systems by the planet’s mega-rich and the existential threat that poses to an open society and the free flow of information.
05.12.2025

Iran: Three Things The New York Times Gets Wrong

Iran: Three Things The New York Times Gets Wrong

On November 9, The New York Times published an update on the situation with Iran’s nuclear program. The article contains some valuable material. But it also gets three important things wrong.
17.11.2025

The Perilous Norm of Weapons Testing

The Perilous Norm of Weapons Testing

On October 29, just before meeting with China’s President XI Jinping, President Trump posted on the right-wing social media network Truth Social that “because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”
14.11.2025

Honor Veterans by Ending Wars

Honor Veterans by Ending Wars

One of my family’s favorite regular getaways is Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri.
11.11.2025

Norwegian Peace Council Rejects Peace Prize Winner

Norwegian Peace Council Rejects Peace Prize Winner

Norway’s largest peace organization, the Norwegian Peace Council, has announced that it would forego its traditional torchlight procession for the Nobel Peace Prize winner this year after widespread dissatisfaction with the Nobel Committee’s selection of Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado as this year’s laureate.
30.10.2025

The Rubio Doctrine: Neocons Are Back!

The Rubio Doctrine: Neocons Are Back!

According to several recent news reports, the two major Trump foreign policy shifts last week are the handiwork of Marco Rubio, the President’s Secretary of State and (acting) National Security Advisor. As with all neocon plans, they will be big on promises and small on delivery.
28.10.2025

Trump’s Military Occupation of America

Trump’s Military Occupation of America

Nick Turse covers the U.S. president’s push in the direction of a genuine police state as he deploys armed forces in U.S. cities and proclaims he is waging a “war from within.”
20.10.2025

The Geopolitics of Algorithms: TikTok, Oracle & Israel

The Geopolitics of Algorithms: TikTok, Oracle & Israel

Miguel Ruíz on the union of technology, geopolitics and the military in the interests of Israel.
10.10.2025

Power & Justice

Power & Justice

The world broke its silence at the U.N. late last month, but force alone is what counts for Trump and Netanyahu, who propose to stand astride the world like co-emperors.
07.10.2025

Donald Trump’s Dangerous Tilt Towards War at Home and Abroad

Donald Trump’s Dangerous Tilt Towards War at Home and Abroad

Donald Trump’s speech yesterday at Quantico to the assembled General Officers of the US militaray was a tour de farce of narcissism (not a tour de force).
02.10.2025

The War Dept’s War on Media

The War Dept’s War on Media

The Pentagon’s new restrictions will bar correspondents covering the American military from covering the American military, as the Trump regime attempts to exert full-spectrum control over media.
30.09.2025

Looney Climate Change is Not Science

Looney Climate Change is Not Science

President Trump’s U.N. speech covered a variety of topics, ranging from his peacemaking accomplishments in seven different wars.
27.09.2025

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

A Charlie Kirk Ministry of Truth

A Charlie Kirk Ministry of Truth

The proposed “Charlie Kirk Act” would give the U.S. government sweeping new powers to decide what does and does not constitute propaganda and untruth and administer penalties accordingly.
19.09.2025

The Department of War Is Back!

The Department of War Is Back!

But Victoryless Culture Remains
19.09.2025

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