The global strategy Donald Trump has pursued since the beginning of his second term revives a formula that proved effective for much of the last century.
Treating the world as a chessboard, the old bipolar tradition of the Cold War has been redesigned to cast China as the rival power,...
Julian Assange is back.
On September 17, Assange heralded his own return to X by posting a picture of himself standing in front of a Sydney street mural. The mural, painted by Scott Marsh, shows a bearded bust of Assange looking out on the world above the hashtag, “#FreeAssange,” only...
Fake stories about Hamas ripping babies from women’s stomachs and committing mass rapes were similar to those told about German troops in Belgium—and U.S. adversaries in Vietnam
After October 7, 2023, the U.S. media went into high gear promoting stories about Hamas atrocities, claiming that Hamas had ripped babies...
There are facts without consequences, books without follow-up. What shall we make of this monumental piece of research and logic that speaks to our conscience and should move us all to action? The very essence of civilized existence, of the values of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of...
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was up to its old tricks at its awards banquet on September 10th, which took place at the estate of George Washington in Mount Vernon, Virginia, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the writing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
The honorees...
“…the real significance of this scandal for me…is the link to contemporary slavery and trafficking. I can’t say to what extent, but there is human trafficking happening through the Clinton’s Complex. And mining has always been historically linked to trafficking, slavery, and labor exploitation.”— Monica Petersen, Research Fellow...
CIA Director John Brennan was key to U.S. foreign policy strategy that aimed to draw Russia into quagmire in Ukraine and attack its energy infrastructure so U.S. oil and gas producers could take over its depleted markets
The Russia-Ukraine War, really a U.S.-Ukraine proxy war on Russia, has taken a...
“ would be a voice in the wind…warning without being heard as the…hopeful wartime alliance spiraled into disaster…. In the transpacific world we inhabit today…we are still paying the price for what happened at the end of World War II. And Evans Carlson saw it coming.”—historian Stephen R....
Paige Cognetti’s support for weapons shipments to Israel and Ukraine fits an unfortunate pattern in her party this election cycle
Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti is running for Congress in northeast Pennsylvania in one of the most contested races in the U.S. mid-term elections as a Democrat under the slogan “Paige...
Patrick Reynolds is a former Hollywood actor and the grandson of R. J. Reynolds, the founder of the third-largest tobacco company in the world, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, makers of Camels, Winstons and other brands.
In July 1986, Reynolds was thrust into the national spotlight when he broke...
