Franklin Frederick “To fight against the neoliberal order is to fight for our humanity, for the integrity of our society and for the future of the planet itself.” – Franklin Frederick looks at the strategies fueling the rise of the international right. On October 26, 2018, the Canadian news source CBC published an article on…
Category: NATO
The Pentagon Report and “Off-the-Books” Bases
Bases, Bases, Everywhere… Except in the Pentagon’s Report Nick Turse The U.S. military is finally withdrawing (or not) from its base at al-Tanf. You know, the place that the Syrian government long claimed was a training ground for Islamic State (ISIS) fighters; the land corridor just inside Syria, near both the Iraqi and Jordanian borders,…
War Criminals at Large
Daniele Ganser It is a common misconception that democracies do not start wars of aggression or carry out terrorist attacks. The historical facts for the period from 1945 to today show a completely different reality: time and again, democratic states (*) in Europe and North America have participated in wars of aggression and terrorist attacks…
India: Lynching as a Public Spectacle
Prabir Purkayastha The rise of hate crimes in India – cow-related violence and lynchings – has been coupled with extensive use of social media. While fake news and fake videos have often helped spark communal violence, they have also been “celebratory” in nature: participants bragging about being a part of the mob involved in the…
Recognize Propaganda When You See this Film! : Review of “Las Sandinistas!”
Dr. Arnold Matlin This movie works for the first 75 minutes. It’s a solid documentary about the great role that women played in the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. Sadly, the remainder of the film is propaganda for the Nicaraguan rightwing movement called the MRS. The MRS did, indeed, begin as a group that was going…
Mass Psychosis and the Expanding Savagery of Empire’s Humanitarian Interventionism
David Penner Ask any American liberal aged sixty-five and older what they think about Franco, Mussolini, or Hitler and they will vehemently denounce these men as tyrants, murderers, and despots. Ask them what they think about the Vietnam War and they will say it was a tragedy, not only for the Vietnamese, but for the…
