Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide
Edward Curtin It has been fifty-five years since Senator Robert F. Kennedy stepped onto the presidential nominating stage to try to mend the massive breach that had opened in...
The New York Times is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
Edward Curtin “Ingsoc. The sacred principles of ingsoc. Newspeak, double-speak, the mutability of the past.” – George Orwell, 1984 As today dawned, I was looking out the window into the...
Everybody Knows the Fight was Fixed
Edward Curtin “Yeah, like [in] a church. Church of the Good Hustler.” Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) in The Hustler At the end of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play, A Doll’s House,...
The Everything Bubble, Fictitious Capital and Coronavirus
Frank Lee The years since the 1970s are unprecedented in terms of their volatility in the price of commodities, currencies, real estate and stocks. There have been 4 waves...
Short of Time: Julian Assange at the Westminster Magistrates Court
Binoy Kampmark London. Another slot of judicial history, another notch to be added to the woeful record of legal proceedings being undertaken against Julian Assange. The ailing WikiLeaks founder...
REVIEW: Creative Destruction – How to start an economic renaissance
Frank Lee CYCLES OF CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION A recession is defined in economics as two or more quarters of negative growth. A depression, on the other hand, comprises a sharp...
The Case that Obama Was a Traitor Just Got Powerful New Evidence — From the DNC!
Eric Zuesse The case that Obama’s team concocted Russiagate in order to weaken Trump if Trump were to win the Presidency has just received an important admission. The Government...
A Spiritual Special Ops Team’s Christmas Gift
It was snowing hard in the days before Christmas in 1972 as I sat at my writing desk looking out the back window toward the woods that were filling...
Against the Stream
So, when did the Trente Glorieuses (1945-1975) end, and the great counter-reformation begin exactly? Some would argue when Nixon took the dollar off of the gold standard in...
How to identify CIA limited hangout?
by Webster Tarpley, June 2013 This article originally appeared on PressTV.ir in 2013 at this link, which is now inactive (you can see it here on the Wayback machine)....
JFK at 100: The War on Our Heroes Part 2
In the first half of this article, published on JFK's centenary, I discussed the general degradation of the intellectual and moral character of figurehead politicians,...
Watergate Redux or ‘Deep State’ Coup?
The whole Comey/Russophobia issue continues to spiral past propaganda, past delusion and into total madness. Social media is boiling with neoliberals telling each other Trump is a “new Nixon”...
Is Hillary Clinton the Democrats’ Richard Nixon?
by Eric Zuesse Hillary Clinton’s similarities to Richard Nixon are remarkable: 1: As presidential candidates. both were highly successful politicians who had exceptionally negative net-approval ratings from the U.S....
A multi-polar world has emerged
Remarks by Stephen F. Cohen Professor Emeritus Princeton University and New York University At San Francisco Commonwealth Club, November 18, 2015 Some of you may know that the small...
John Pilger: “From Pol Pot to ISIS: The blood never dried”
Following the ISIS outrages in Beirut and Paris, John Pilger updates this prescient essay on the root causes of terrorism and what we can do about it. Part of...
Viet Nam a half century later
by David Swanson Jimmy Carter called a war waged in Vietnam by the United States — a war that killed 60,000 Americans and 4,000,000 Vietnamese, without burning down a...
