The Deadly Debris the US Is Leaving Behind in Afghanistan
The Nation I’ve never been to Afghanistan, but I am the mother of two young children. So when I imagine what life must be like there after 18 years of war, my mind conjures up the children most vividly—the ones who have been affected by the conflict—and their parents. I think of the 12-year-old boy who was […]
From meritocracy to social media
“We don’t need to cleanse our meritocracy of undeserving people or upgrade our meritocrats; we need to dismantle the whole system. Even when it works, Markovits argues, meritocracy is a primary driver of inequality in America.” The Nation features an insightful interview with author Daniel Markovits, with the central idea that the so-called meritocracy ends up exacerbating America’s unequal […]
Have You Noticed How Social Media Purges Always Align with the U.S. Empire?
The Ghion Journal Twitter has suspended multiple large Cuban media accounts for reasons the social media platform has yet to explain as of this writing, a move which journalist Dan Cohen has described as “the equivalent of silencing CNN, Fox, WaPo and NPR’s accounts” for that nation. The Union of Cuban Journalists has denounced the move as censorship. Last month we saw Twitter suspend […]
Was the imprisonment of Iranian-American journalist Marzieh Hashemi spun into expanded US sanctions?
The Grayzone Disgusted by the atrocities she claimed to have witnessed in the US Air Force in Iraq and Afghanistan, a counter-intelligence analyst named Monica Witt defected to Iran in 2013. She allegedly provided its intelligence services with classified information she had gathered over her career, and helped a team of hackers spearphish the social […]
48 States to Investigate Google: Anti-Trust or Politicking?
The Real News Network GREG WILPERT: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Greg Wilpert in Baltimore. Fifty Attorney Generals from 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico announced on Monday that they are launching an anti-trust investigation into Google. This investigation would be in addition the one that the Justice Department’s already conducting. […]
The Four Storms of the Apocalypse: Katrina, Sandy, Maria and Dorian.
CounterPunch The history of the United States remains shrouded in the fog of myth and overlain by the mists of time. Here in the stygian gloom, its founding looms as the triumph of freedom over tyranny; its slaveholding the reasonable exploitation of an inferior race; its civil war the singular triumph of a great president; […]
Another Flint? Newark, NJ, Faces Public Health Crisis over Lead Contamination in City’s Water Supply
Democracy Now! Thousands of residents in Newark, New Jersey, remain unable to drink their tap water in an enduring public health nightmare. Lead contamination has plagued the city for years, but lead levels have spiked even higher in 2019. The crisis recently came to a head following revelations that water filters distributed to residents may […]
Trump Leaves Afghanistan and Pakistan at His Mercy
Truthdig The Doha talks between the United States and the Taliban to work out a peace deal to end Afghanistan’s 18-year conflict began with a whimper a year ago. They ended Saturday with a presidential tweet from the White House that was no less than a bang that resounded around a startled world. Having come so close to a peace deal, […]
On 18th Anniversary of 9/11, Media Worry About ‘Premature’ End to Afghan War
FAIR On the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the illegal US occupation of Afghanistan continues as the longest overseas war in American history. Although President Donald Trump recently declared that peace negotiations over the withdrawal of US troops with the Taliban are “dead,” reportedly because of the death of a US soldier from a suicide bomb attack […]
THE FBI WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN CIA BLACK SITE INTERROGATIONS DESPITE YEARS OF DENIALS, GUANTÁNAMO DEFENSE LAWYER SAYS
The Intercept ON MONDAY MORNING, two days before the 18th anniversary of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Pakistani engineer accused of masterminding the attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., appeared in a Guantánamo Bay courtroom sporting a black turban. Seated near him was his new lead attorney, Gary D. Sowards, a death penalty specialist […]