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Rather than advancing democracy, U.S. interference helped empower a Harvard-trained World Bank economist who jailed a political rival and has allowed large-scale arms shipments into Ukraine
Former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Director Samantha Power admitted to Russian pranksters that USAID invested tens of millions of dollars in Moldova...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said “it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”
Canada has been servile to the U.S. war agenda under Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former Governor of the Bank of Canada...
Sovereign—distributed by the same company that brought us the 2023 Donald Trump/Roy Cohn biopic The Apprentice—is among 2025’s best theatrically released political features.
The hard-hitting movie dramatizes America’s right-wing terrorist threat, when a so-called “Sovereign Citizen” and his teenage son disastrously face off against the courts, law enforcement,...
On April 29, American conservative firebrand David Horowitz died at age 86 after a prolonged battle with cancer.
When the news broke, tributes came pouring in on right-wing social media, with everyone from Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a young Horowitz protégé,...
Flynn was a gifted orator who was at the heart of U.S. left-wing movements for the first two-thirds of the 20th century
In 1915, legendary folk singer Joe Hill wrote a tribute to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, an organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW-also known as the Wobblies),...
On the 80th Year Commemoration of Deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki From U.S. Atomic Weapons
In early August, I was in Hiroshima, Japan speaking at a conference on the 80th Anniversary of the horrific and unnecessary U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I also...
The conservative right has been on a crusade to purge the teaching of critical race theory and aspects of U.S. history that reflect negatively on the country’s past and, hence, might encourage critical thinking about the present.
Most academic historians teaching in the Ivy League and at other institutions of...
In May, Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) announced that the Bangladesh-focused media outlet Netra News was the recipient of the 2025 Shorenstein Journalism Award.
Left unmentioned was that Netra News received funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA-front organization founded in the 1980s to advance U.S. global...
An Ethnographic Portrait of Youth, the Blockade and Survival in Havana Today, on the 72nd Anniversary of the July 26th Attack
Argentinian sociologist Atilio Borón, analyzing the impact of Western sanctions on Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba, explains that hunger is more dangerous than any bomb imperialism could drop on the...
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed off on the first-ever trillion-dollar military budget.
When the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its budget request for fiscal year 2026 in May, it included a base defense request of $892.6 billion, plus a $119.3 billion allocation of additional resources...
