The U.S. government has increasingly become a brokerage platform for elite business capital accumulation goals camouflaged under a national security agenda. Anyone who has read my latest book, U.S.-Russian Commercial Relations 1763-1933: Origins of Russophobia (New Delhi: Atlantic, 2025)—see a review in CovertAction Magazine here), would recognize that the U.S....

Voters then, too, were faced with the choice of two corporate-backed candidates promoting regressive economic policies In 1924, at least, there was a genuinely progressive third candidate, Robert La Follette The 1924 U.S. election was not much better than 2024’s. In both cases, the Republican and Democratic Party candidates had deep...