“The Constitution Lies in Tatters on the Floor”

Lawrence Wilkerson Interviewed by Ralph Nader https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/shooting-wars-and-trade-wars (Excerpts) Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired U.S. Army colonel. Over his 31 years of service, Col. Wilkerson served as Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, and Special Assistant to Gen. Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993. Wilkerson also served as Deputy Director and Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War [...]

The Role of “Friendship” and Bromance in International Affairs

The Politics of Getting Around Things: Geopolitics as Couples Therapy By Peter Bach [Excerpts] https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/20/the-politics-of-getting-around-things/      Imagine Trump and Xi disappearing into a room for an hour and emerging with the gentlest of smiles to announce that the United States and China had agreed to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons—with Russia and North Korea waiting in the wings to get rid of them too. I suppose the most famous political [...]

Paper Tiger

The Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies​ According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all, spending only 2% of what the US did, and SIPRI estimated Iran’s [...]

Resist Rubio’s McCarthyite Attacks on Cuba, the Black Freedom Struggle, and the Left

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles (ARA-LA/PART) At a recent international gathering of right-wing states and parties, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, angling to run again for US president as a MAGA hard-liner this time, delivered a speech and a 100+ page document attacking Cuba, the Black freedom struggle in the US, and anything to the left of MAGA, as violence-prone communists intent on subversion. This new McCarthyism seeks to [...]

Iran Crisis Challenges US Doctrine of Low-Intensity Warfare

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the US and Iran extended the ceasefire between them for 60 days, during which time they agreed to try to negotiate the details of a permanent peace agreement. If the US can make peace with Iran, this could mark the beginning of a transition away from the doctrine of “low-intensity conflict” that has shaped U.S. foreign policy for [...]

From war crimes and genocide abroad to moral, constitutional, and debt crises at home

Why Congress must reject the NDAA’s U.S.-Israel military and intelligence merger by Dennis Kucinich [excerpts] https://scheerpost.com/2026/06/30/war-crimes-war-powers-and-american-sovereignty-the-usa-israel-the-department-of-forever-war/ [Despite] the horrific high- and low-tech butchery of Palestinians and Lebanese by Israeli ethno-nationalist killers, this week there will be an effort in Congress to merge or integrate the military of Israel and the US at the most advanced levels. Section 219 (formerly Section 224) of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), provides for an [...]

Turkish naval strategist warns US blockade risks global economic collapse

Washington’s war on Iran has exposed the limits of US power, accelerated the decline of the petrodollar system, and pushed the world toward a systemic rupture. https://thecradle.co/articles/turkish-naval-strategist-warns-us-blockade-risks-global-economic-collapse Last year, retired Rear Admiral Cem Gurdeniz warned The Cradle that NATO had become a hollow alliance and that Turkiye's future lay in a sovereign Eurasian alignment. Today, as Washington-backed escalation against Iran spirals into a global economic and military crisis, his warnings appear less [...]

Trump Steps Up Attacks on Vessels in the Eastern Pacific

On the heels of his deadly attacks on small boats in the Caribbean, Trump has escalated with a new wave of attacks on vessels in the "eastern Pacific" off the coast of Latin America. US forces have attacked and sunk several with the same spurious claim that they are "narco-terrorists". The Guardian (UK) recently reported on one such attack, talking to survivors, but other fishing boats less fortunate have been sunk, and [...]

FIFA: Move the World Cup from the US

International Coalition Calls to Move World Cup from US by Black Alliance for Peace https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/2026/3/4/100-days-from-the-world-cup-an-international-coalition-is-calling-on-fifa-to-move-the-games-from-the-us-the-us-is-unsafe-for-non-europeans-and-is-operating-as-a-rogue-state With the FIFA World Cup in L.A.  now under 100 days away, an international coalition has launched a coordinated boycott campaign demanding that FIFA move matches from the United States. The Coalition warns that US thuggery is creating a humanitarian crisis, both domestic and international. International sport is not neutral. Mega-sporting events function as instruments of political [...]

The US-Israeli War on Iran—and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy

The War on Iran—and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction. Like the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. assault on Iran rests on allegations that international inspectors have already debunked. But beyond the false pretext lies an even more pressing question that few [...]

A-I, Labor, and the Future of LA, War & the World

Teach-in Held Sat., Feb. 7, 11 am - 5 pm, IAM Machinists union Hall, 1261 N. Avalon Bl., Wilmington Part 1: https://youtu.be/oaPdrHmrOAI Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH3Xy5bf8Jo The first thing to understand about "artificial intelligence", A-I, is that it is military technology. The techno-fascist moguls promoting it are all military contractors with Trump's War Department. The principal driver of research and development in autonomous vehicles has been the US Army Tank Division. Elon Musk's [...]

Into the Buzz-saw

© 2026 by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentaries/ [In commercial journalism], you either serve the Emperor or you serve the Empire, but you serve power. And if you don't, you get tossed. Think about this -- Into the Buzzsaw, that was one of the best books I ever read about journalism, because it was real cases of real journalists all across the nation, who found out stuff and tried to report it, and collided [...]

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