Nuclear weapons offer an illusion of security. By allowing the U.S. nuclear posture to shift from deterrence to employment, there will be a scenario where the U.S. will use nuclear weapons. And then it’s lights out.
Groups backing Harris were angered by Biden supporting the Willow project and Mountain Valley Pipeline, continuing fossil fuel lease sales, and skipping last year’s U.N. summit.
The U.S. must make clear that “military assistance to Israel will be leveraged to secure an end to the conflict,” said the president of the National Iranian American Council.
On the fantasy worlds of Democrats trying to free Palestine from the river to the sea and Republicans trying to turn the White House into a puppet regime of Moscow, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
We seem to live in a strange age where politics relies more than ever on the big lie technique, even as social media makes the exposure of such lies inevitable.
A lightweight when it came time to prove himself as a statesman and a leader, the White House has simply defeated him.
UPDATED: U.S. support for Israel’s genocide against Palestine is rooted not only in campaign financing but other factors, including a rigid ideology stuck in the shadow of World War II, writes Joe Lauria.
Democrats are anointing another amoral politician as a mask for outsized corporate greed, the folly of endless war, the facilitation of genocide and the assault on our most basic civil liberties.
The presidential hopeful’s record in California undermines her claim to progressive credentials, says Marjorie Cohn.
The empire’s behavior is no more changed with a new president — Trump or Harris — than a corporation is changed with a new secretary at the front desk of its main office, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
