Two Dozen Senators Tell Biden It Is ‘Past Time’ to Finally Close Guantánamo
Senators press Biden finally to close the Guantánamo Bay offshore military prison, where 40 men are still being held despite global outrage.
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Slaughter Central: The United States as a Mass-Killing Machine
Puttig some metrics on America’s dedicated killing devices, from guns to armaments.
Read more...Utopian Socialism Brings About Toilet Paper Shortages Maybe In The Near Future, or A Short Ideological History of the Suez Canal
Why it’s socialists’ fault that that big ship is stuck in the Suez.
Read more...U.S. Joins “Rules-Based World” on Afghanistan
Why the US appears to be retreating from the idea it can remake the world to its own liking, at least in Afghanistan.
Read more...Medea Benjamin: 10 Things Wrong With Biden’s Foreign Policy
Medea Benjamin explains why the Biden administration seems firmly entrenched behind Trump’s walls of hostility.
Read more...Will Clean Energy Kickstart A New Resource War?
Why the transition to green energy is likely to be geopolitically destabilizing .
Read more...‘The Mauritanian’ Rekindles Debate Over Gitmo Detainees’ Torture – With 40 Still Held There
A new movie puts the hot lights on America’s abuse of law and routinized torture at Gitmo.
Read more...Guantánamo Prisoner to Joe Biden: ‘The Last Two Decades of My Life Have Been a Nightmare Without End’
Guantánamo is a daming example of American lack of concern over the lives it casually ruins.
Read more...America, the Unreliable Superpower: Can Biden Shore Up Its Record?
Biden promises to go back to a US superpower old normal that was still a pretty unsettling ride for our allies.
Read more...The Third-World Flavor of America’s Love Affair with the Military
The dangers of undue deference to men in military uniforms.
Read more...The Economic Impact of Ancient Colonisation
How ancient colonizers left an enduring economic footprint, even at the local level.
Read more...The End Of The Embargo Against Qatar
The rollback of the Qatar embargo is a small positive development as Team Trump is exiting.
Read more...Nearly 20 Years After September 11: America Hooked on All War, All the Time
Another look at America’s preoccupation with war.
Read more...Saudi Aramco’s Landmark IPO Is Costing The Kingdom Billions
How the Saudi Aramco IPO has become a financial millstone.
Read more...Yemen: More Damage To World Peace And Security Due To Trump Wrecking Everything As He Exits
Trump kicks Yemen.
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