A tragedy unfolded on Tuesday in Philadelphia after a 12-year-old boy was shot in the back and killed. The boy was running from several police officers when two of them opened fire. Police have since claimed that even though 12-year-old Thomas Siderio was running...
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After Setting ‘The Science,’ Corporate Press Seeks to Set ‘The History’ on Ukraine
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 2, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The mainstream narrative has shifted. For the past two years, all respectable humans socially distanced, masked up and ‘got vaxxed and boosted.’ However, White House Covid czar Anthony Fauci is slowly being exposed as a false prophet. Lockdowns provided little...
Remembering the Men Who Avoided Nuclear Apocolypse
by Kym Robinson | Mar 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis is remembered for its frightful brinkmanship, when the United States and Soviet Union danced close to the furnace of global destruction. Fortunately cooler heads prevailed and a war of the worst kind was averted. One such cool head was...
Turkish-Held Areas in Syria Become Asylum for ISIS
by Armen Tigranakert | Mar 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The news of an ISIS leader elimination, Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi, by the U.S. forces in Syria’s Idlib went around the whole world last month. On the night between Wednesday February 9 to Thursday February 10, American commandos had airdropped from helicopters in the...
The Salafist Roots of the Free Syrian Army
by William Van Wagenen | Feb 28, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“At the same time, we see that there is almost no difference between the group called Free Syrian Army or other jihadist groups and ISIS. For instance, these ‘moderate’ opposition groups burned the churches down, when they entered Kessab. They entered Malula, where...
We Must Not Repeat Cold War Errors
by José Niño | Feb 28, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
With Russia launching a military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the corporate press has grown shrill in its calls for punishing Russia with draconian sanctions, supplying Ukraine with increased military aid, and diplomatically isolating the Eurasian power...
Media Criticism of Putin’s Invasion Rings Hollow
by Will Porter | Feb 27, 2022 | Featured Articles
With Russia’s attack on Ukraine underway, the corporate media is awash with openly hostile coverage of the conflict, embedded with an implicit premise that the Russian Aggressor has invented an empty pretext for the invasion of its neighbor. Concerns over NATO, it...
TGIF: On Privilege
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 25, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
One of the most abused words in English is privilege. Observe how indiscriminately this word is spoken and written. For example, in some quarters, all straight white men -- without exception -- are said to be privileged, which seems absurd. Practically all we hear...