Income Inequality in a Globalising World
Absolute inequality around the world has increased, challenging the purported benefit of globalization.
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The Real Scandal of Clinton’s Emails: Conducting Foreign Policy In Secret
A revealing effort to acknowledge that the Clintons are corrupt but contend that it doesn’t matter much because the system is rotten.
Read more...A Hard Look at the War Criminals, Um, Hawks Who Say “Never Trump”
The hawks who are throwing bricks at Trump forgot that they are living in glass houses.
Read more...Putin-Erdogan Meeting a Dud: No Common Ground on Syria
Erdogan met Putin in Moscow last week but as Helmer explains, failed to achieve any rapprochement in its relations with Russia
Read more...Why Is the Pentagon Hiding the Number of Troops in Iraq and Syria?
The Pentagon refuses to disclose how many U.S. troops — and contractors — are currently deployed to Iraq and Syria. CIvilian deaths, too
Read more...William Astore: Why Do Military Professionals Remain Silent About America’s Disastrous Wars?
Why is there so little domestic criticism of U.S. foreign policy and its disastrous wars and so little military dissent in particular?
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: The 60-Year Decay of American Politics
A personal take on why politics in America are so rotten.
Read more...Despite Low Oil Prices, Saudi Arabia Stabilizing Economy
Saudi Arabia is getting a handle on managing its budget and economy in the face of ow oil prices. That could have long-term ramifications.
Read more...Strengthening Russo-Turkish Alliance Stokes US-Russian Cold War
John Helmer describes why an upcoming meeting between Erdogan and Putin could represent a significant geopolitical shift.
Read more...Patrick Cockburn: How Neoliberalism and Cold War Obsessions Fractured the Middle East
How neoliberalism, the resource curse, and military interventions by Washington and its allies, profoundly destabilized the Middle East.
Read more...William Astore: Air Supremacy Isn’t What It Used to Be
American air supremacy is touted as key to delivering low cost victories. It’s hasn’t been working out that way for quite a while.
Read more...Why Did 51 American State Department Officials ‘Dissent’ Against Obama and Call for Bombing Syria?
A troubling internal cable signed by a host of U.S. diplomats blames Obama for not striking Syria earlier.
Read more...The Supposedly Liberal NY Review of Books Published a Very Strange Review of Chomsky’s Latest
Wading into a dispute over Chomsky’s latest book, Who Rules the World?
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: How Donald Trump Reveals the March of American Authoritarianism
Trump as a symbol of an America morphing into a visibly less democratic fading empire.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: The US in the Middle East – “There Is No Strategy”
At best, the US is waging a war of attrition in the Middle East. And we ignore the fact that people in that part of the world hold grudges for centuries.
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