Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — t was a sad spectacle to see U.S. brass rubbishing the Constitution and trying to silence critics of the U.S. strike on Syria, says Ray McGovern in this commentary. The U.S. Constitution and international…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — On Sunday, President Trump announced his intention to make those responsible for an alleged chemical weapons attack on Douma, including the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian allies, pay a “big price” for their continued…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — [Note for TomDispatch Readers: This is your last chance to get your own signed, personalized copy of James Carroll’s moving new novel, The Cloister, his vivid retelling of the medieval love story of Abelard…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — Blitzkrieg Overseas, Sitzkrieg in the Homeland Overseas, the United States is engaged in real wars in which bombs are dropped, missiles are launched, and people (generally not Americans) are killed, wounded, uprooted, and displaced.…
Our Score Submitted by ButtCracker — On this Presidents’ Day weekend, in honor of the president we have, I decided to repost this old piece of mine. I wrote it in a white heat of shock, just after learning that…
Our Score he irony that is most gagging is that America’s power elite is destroying the nation’s social order by its concentration of wealth and abuse of power. The irony of the Deep State’s obsessive focus on “Russian meddling” in…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — “We don’t know exactly where we’re at in the world, militarily, and what we’re doing,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in October. That was in the wake…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — Who was corrupting the American political system? Reading the mainstream media headlines relating to the flipping of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to provide evidence relating to the allegations about Russian interference in…
Our Score Submitted by ButtCracker — Although the U.S. news media’s fancies itself the world’s “gold standard,” it operates with stunning hypocrisy and huge blind spots, none bigger than its fawning coverage of Israel that ignores critics like Miko Peled,…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — Dear Mr. President Maduro, You have the overwhelming support of the peoples of the world. On 25 August President Trump signed an executive order slapping Venezuela with the most sweeping economic sanctions ever. They…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — Exclusive: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is ratcheting up war tensions in Syria again, but President Trump reportedly is not happy with the threats as he shifts again toward resisting the neocons, writes Robert Parry.…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — The Congress’ attempt to ban the BDS movement is an attack on core democratic values of the US. The adage goes, “Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it.” Indeed,…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — Usually foreign analysts of the American political scene are either sycophantic or just annoying, but no one would dare say that about Aussie observer Caitlin Johnstone, whose punk rock style of cutting to the chase…
Our Score The US submarine captain says, “We’ve all got to die one day, some sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you’re never ready, because you don’t know when it’s coming. Well, now we do know…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — Saturday, Kim Jong-un tested an ICBM of sufficient range to hit the U.S. mainland. He is now working on its accuracy and a nuclear warhead small enough to fit atop that missile that can…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — Ships from the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group simulate a strait transit in the Atlantic Ocean, Dec. 10, 2013. The strike group was conducting a pre-deployment evaluation. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — China and Russia have already ditched the US dollar in their vast energy trade. Now China is leveraging Saudi Arabia to also abandon the greenback for oil sales. No wonder, it seems, that US…
Our Score Submitted by ButtCracker — US Senator Rand Paul has spoken out during the debate on war powers, saying that the current wars the US is leading are “illegal,” and that he isn’t “voting to go to war in…
Our Score No country on earth is more devastated by US imperial viciousness – complicit with Saudi Arabia doing its dirty work. Yemenis are threatened by endless war, famine, cholera, and other horrendous issues, the lives of millions endangered. According…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — Exclusive: By dunning NATO nations to chip more money into the military alliance, President Trump may inadvertently cause some Europeans to rethink the over-the-top anti-Russian propaganda, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. President Donald Trump’s…
