The verdict is in: GUILTY.
On January 15, after a year-long trial, ten jurors found four major U.S. military contractors—Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed and General Atomics—guilty on charges of willfully participating in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
The prosecution of the “merchants of death” was coordinated by Brad Wolf, a...
As people in the United States sat down to Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners this past holiday season, Palestinians in Gaza on Day 419 of the Israeli genocide of Gaza—and U.S. complicity in that genocide—were facing starvation, lack of water, tents purposefully destroyed by U.S. bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes...
In late August, I traveled to Doha, Qatar, to meet and interview Hamas political bureau members Dr. Basem Naim and Osama Hamdan. After nearly four months of planning and coordinating, I was finally approved to come and conduct the interview at their diplomatic headquarters in Qatar. Given the security...
The arch neo-conservative wants the CIA to become “bolder and more innovative in covert action”
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was established in the late 1970s as a watchdog designed to ensure greater transparency for CIA operations in the wake of the 1975-76 Church Committee hearings.
The Church Committee...
Over recent decades, a clandestine network of weapons tycoons has been silently enabling global conflicts. The resulting covert operations, often hidden from public view, have profound impacts on international stability and human lives.
Today, these figures continue to arm warring factions, perpetuating violence and bloodshed. With close ties to intelligence...
Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday was met with protests around the country. As he immediately launched attacks on immigrants, the environment, LGBTQ people, labor and beyond, people took to the streets in opposition, pledging to continue organizing to defend the oppressed against the onslaught of attacks from Trump and the billionaires...
The late historian Antony C. Sutton is one of the most influential thinkers in the current American populist movement. The Mises Institute has repeatedly promoted his work, as has the Cato Institute, and his books are steady sellers on Amazon (an impressive feat given that most of their content...
Part V: War Costs and Profits
When Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen met with President Donald Trump, December 2019, Trump was threatening less support for NATO and European conflicts if they did not use 2% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for defense. What defines “defense” is at issue herein since...
A few days before Remembrance Day, November 11, 2024, the Government of Canada announced that it will not release that portion of a report produced by the Commission of Inquiry into War Criminals in Canada (Deschênes Commission) that names 900 Canadians accused of war crimes committed on behalf of...
Immigration has been a “hot issue” in the United States for a long time. In the 1700s, Benjamin Franklin complained about the influx of German immigrants. In the mid-1800s, there was a strong nativist movement against European immigrants, especially Catholics and Jews. In the 1880s, it was the Chinese...