Category Archives: Americas
The poison of nationalism
Graham Peebles writes:
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How to undermine a diplomatic triumph: Biden and the Iran nuclear deal
Lawrence Davidson notes the Biden administration's misinformation that seeks to blame Iran for the failure to reinstate the nuclear deal, a failure he attributes to US "ideologues tied hand and foot" to the Israel lobby. Read more [...]
We can defeat the corporate media’s war to snuff out independent journalism
Jonathan Cook highlights "mainstream" media's efforts "to shape the values and worldview of its readers, over time limiting the range of possible thoughts they are likely to entertain", and how new technology "has offered us new tools in our struggle and… redrawn the battleground". Read more [...]
Joe Biden’s heartfelt illogic about Israel
Lawrence Davidson argues that in contrast to his domestic policies, US President Biden's foreign policy in the Middle East in general and towards Israel in particular is not only stale and worn out, but is also riddled with hypocrisy and contradictions. Read more [...]
New symbolic role for the Israeli flag: A standard for white nationalists, Christian nationalists and nationalist thugs in suits
Lawrence Davidson: Israel "has attracted the rising wave of today’s rightist fringe like bears to honey. Whether they are white nationalists, Christian nationalists or just nationalist thugs in suits, they all sense something laudable in Israel." Read more [...]
A brief but portentous insurrection by Trump’s thugs
Lawrence Davidson says the failure of the pro-Trump insurrection of 6 January must not blur the fact that 74 million Americans voted for a neofascist leader, and that "an American-style neofascist authoritarianism has become acceptable to millions of Americans". Read more [...]
Trump may be on trial, but the system that produced him will be acquitted
Jonathan Cook argues that whether Trump is ultimately convicted or not in the Senate, the system that produced him will be acquitted – by Congress, by the new president, by Wall Street, by the corporate media, and that it is we who will pay the price. Read more [...]
The ‘humanitarian’ left still ignores the lessons of Iraq, Libya and Syria to cheer on more war
Jonathan Cook says leftist "cheerleaders" have not learned the lessons of the West's catastrophic military interventions in the Arab world and are now partaking in Western belligerence towards China and Russia, to the benefit of warmongers in the US and UK. Read more [...]
Reason vs faith in the age of Trump
Lawrence Davidson explains why Christian fundamentalists who believe that the unethical, immoral and mentally suspect charlatan Donald Trump is an appointee of their Christian God not only threaten US democracy but also call into question more than 3,000 years of human progress. Read more [...]
The planet cannot heal until we rip the mask off the West’s war machine
Jonathan Cook writes:
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