American Barbarians

War isn't everything. Soon it will be the only thing.

Donald Trump’s Visit To Iraq

Trump’s visit to Iraq and Washington’s never-ending war in the Middle East

Veterans For Peace Statement

On the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria.

Window On Official Washington

Trump administration in question as political warfare in Washington intensifies

Media Hand-Wringing Over The "Poor" Pentagon...

is truly disgusting.

Ho Ho Ho!

Mattis Resignation

Defense Secretary Mattis resigns amid Washington backlash over Syria troop withdrawal

Together For Freedom

Neo-Zionism And Neo-Fascism

Israel rolls out the welcome mat for Europe’s neo-fascists

Born to Kill/Peace Button/Duality of Man

Gnosis

Behind this:



Lies this:

Chomsky On Anarchism

The State Funeral For George H. W. Bush And The Ritual Of Oligarchy

The state funeral for George H. W. Bush and the ritual of oligarchy

Meet The New Boss/Same As The Old Boss

Democrats re-elect a right-wing leadership

Trump Unravelling

In Thanksgiving teleconference, Trump appeals to military against courts, political opponents

We Eat Like Donald Trump For A Day

Go Left Young Women And Men!

A Textbook Example

Military expenditures by the U.S. government represent over 1/3 of the total amount of WORLD military expenditures annually. This is corporate welfare of staggering proportions--and to what end? To create the illusions of security and prosperity at home and to further imperial ambitions abroad. And because the military-industrial-complex is careful to enrich the members of Congress, the federal government's imperial subjects (the so-called "free citizens of the republic") are powerless to do anything about it. During our brief flirtation with republican values (in the 18th century), we were warned about the dangers that "standing armies" pose to democracies. The U.S. today is a textbook example of what happens when those warnings go unheeded.

Military Expenditures As % Of GDP

As of 2014.

Axis Of Evil

United States-Israel-Saudi Arabia.

7 Questions British Muslims Are Tired Of Hearing

John McCain

Why the US ruling class mourns John McCain

R.I.P. Samir Amin

He fought the good fight.

I'm With This Guy

Uri Avnery Obituary

By Robert Fisk.

R.I.P.

Done.

Red Utopia

Communist Party offices around the world.

Darkness Descends

Soviet Art

Oleg Lomakin:



The Great Patriotic War



Cossacks



Traum

Terry Eagleton on Why Marx was Right

The United States Is NOT A Functioning Democracy

It is a militarized corporatocracy. Voting will never change this system, because the system itself never stands for election.

The Trail Of Blood And The Obama White House

Egypt’s military junta condemns 75 coup protesters to death

WTC-Building 7

Worth staying awake through.

Dr. Hulsey's CV.

Madeleine Albright: War Criminal

Literature Of The Oppressed

Yasar Kemal.

Samir Amin

One of the most incisive Left thinkers of the late 20th/early 21st centuries.

Chinese "Communism"

An introduction.

Get Ready

BANK LAWYERS BLOG.

Another World Is Possible

Center On Conscience & War.

More On AMLO’s Victory In Mexico

US ruling class takes measure of AMLO’s victory in Mexico

The Police State

You thought they were here to protect us? Think again.

War Is Terrorism

The Spanish Revolution

Remember to remember...

U.S. Imperial Bullying Of China

Has not gone unnoticed...

Squeezed

Why America is getting too expensive for the Middle Class.

The U.S. Supine Court Strikes Again

The new Dred Scott: Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban

You Want To See Woke?

Look no further.

Turkish Democracy At The Crossroads

The Indian moment.

Liberals Tend To Be Selective With Their "Heartfelt Concern"

Ralph Nader exposes their hypocrisy.

Uncommon Courage

“We were bullies in one of the poorest countries on Earth,” Rapone said. “We have one of the most technologically advanced militaries of all time and all we were doing is brutalizing and invading and terrorizing a population that had nothing to do with what the United States claimed was a threat.”

THANK YOU SPENSER RAPONE FOR TELLING IT LIKE IT IS!

Heroes Of The Universal Struggle For Self-Determination

Ataturk


Tito


Ho Chi Minh


Malcolm X


Che Guevara


Ghaffar Khan

Eid Mubarak!

The American Anti-Imperialist League

The American Anti-Imperialist League was founded on June 15, 1898 and included among its members Mark Twain, William and Henry James, John Dewey, and Andrew Carnegie. Bring it back.

Sometimes Where You Least Expect It...

There is life beyond Trumpistan.

Read The Classics

First published in the fateful year 1980--the year of Ronald Reagan's election, the Year of No Return--and re-issued in 2007 with an Introduction by Andrew Bacevich, William Appleman Williams's now classic Empire As A Way Of Life chronicles the dark heart of the American Dream: the imperial ideology that sustains and rationalizes the lethal cocktail of predatory capitalism and apocalyptic Messianism (of the Christian and Nationalistic varieties) that now strut brazenly upon the stage of American politics and are preached as gospel from American pulpits. Anyone who is still mystified how someone like Donald Trump came to occupy the Oval Office should read this book.

Afghan Peace Volunteers

Fly the flag of peace with justice.

Tolstoy Is My Homeboy

The Anarchist Library.

Read The Classics

But don't stop there...

Cyberspace

Cyberspace is where the militarized corporatocracy that runs most of the world's so-called democracies allows the little people like you and me to dump our indignation at their criminality. They let us do that because it's safe there.

It is "safe" in the sense that it serves as a kind of safety valve. We can exercise our First Amendment rights on social media, blogs, internet petitions, etc. and feel as if we've actually "done something" about the issues that matter to us. But frankly, most of what we really accomplish is letting off steam...

In a now classic study, The Crossroads of Liberalism (pub. 1960), Charles Forcey traced the careers of three early 20th century "Progressive" intellectuals and "opinion makers": Croly, Weyl, and Lippmann (all associated with the New Republic magazine). Towards the end of the book (p. 275), Forcey notes that while these men had strong ties to the Wilson Administration and "spoke for the ideals and interests of the great liberal middle class, that class no longer had much power in a world ruled by the hard and secret decisions of admirals and generals, diplomats and heads of state." That was the situation a century ago; it has not improved since then...

What has improved is the ability of the State security apparatus to surveil us. I doubt, however, that they care much about what we think or say so long as it remains in cyberspace. They know, on the one hand, that talk is cheap. On the other hand, they are locked and loaded and ready to rumble if any one of us were to get the idea to act on our perfectly justified outrage. In 2018, they have us right where they want us.

The Dowry Pleases You...

but the bride does not.

Daddy Warbucks

The Democratic Party has a long history of war-mongering. Yet, when they are in power, liberals put their consciences in moth balls.

سيدي الرئيس

Trumpism