The passage of the “sanctions from hell” bill by both houses of Congress provides a fitting tribute to its original sponsor, Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the warmonger who died from an alleged heart attack on July 11 after returning to Washington, D.C., from a visit to Ukraine.
Targeting Russian oil and...
The U.S. “defense” budget is out of control, unsustainable and without accountability.
Now, the U.S. House of Representatives has agreed to a 50% increase in the defense budget to $1.5 trillion. The Senate must approve it and will consider the massive Pentagon budget when it returns from the August summer...
Abelardo de la Espriella of Colombia and Keiko Fujimori of Peru are two leaders favored by the Trump administration who embody its alliance with the extreme right
The new presidents of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, and of Peru, Keiko Fujimori, have positioned themselves as ardent supporters of the Trump...
In early March, Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan (R), who chairs the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime and Fisheries, convened a hearing at the University of Alaska at Anchorage focused on Arctic security infrastructure.
Sullivan stated in his remarks that the U.S. was “undergoing...
With and sometimes without one raggedy, expired Telesur press pass and a handful of inside contacts, Esteban Carrillo and I repeatedly penetrated Ecuador’s presidential candidate Andrés Arauz’s security detail.
A protégé of former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa, Arauz won the 2021 first-round vote by more than 13 percentage points over...
On August 31, Duane “Keffe D” Davis was convicted of first-degree murder for his role in the death of famed rapper Tupac Shakur 30 years earlier.
Prosecutors argued that Davis and his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, “went hunting” for Shakur after Anderson was in a fight with him and his entourage...
The Trump administration is blocking an agreement that would allow Chagossians who were displaced 60 years ago to return to their homeland
The many victims of the Iran War include thousands of Chagossian refugees living in Mauritius who have been prevented from returning to their home on Diego Garcia in...
Part Three: Artificial Intelligence = Alienation Instructors
I am conscious of being alienated. Feeling, knowing we have no real control over our lives, or over what happens around us throughout the world. Many of us who look honestly inside feel isolated, estranged from people, society, ourselves. Hopelessly living limply with...
Philip Mosely, who was considered the “most influential Sovietologist of the Cold War,” embodies the close ties between academia and the CIA
In his 1987 book Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, historian Robin Winks details a close connection between academia and the CIA and its...
At the May 26, 2026, Rage Against the War Machine rally, Joe Kent, a former top counterterrorism adviser and CIA paramilitary officer, denounced the war on Iran as a war driven by Israel and rooted in lies, along with other speakers like former Fox News host Tucker Carlson who...
