Are we heading for nuclear war?
Sanctions, embargos, war games, provocations against countries eventually bring war. In the past before the advent of nuclear weapons...
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Trump’s Indictment Marks a Historic Reckoning
A Manhattan grand jury has issued the first-ever indictment of a former US president. Buckle up for whatever happens next....
read moreUkraine’s Zelenskyy invites China’s Xi to visit
Despite its history of being economically aligned and politically favorable toward Russia, China has remained officially neutral...
read moreThe Pentagon’s budget from Hell
Somehow, when it comes to Congress and the mainstream media, the true strangeness of the Pentagon budget always is missing in action....
read moreChina And Russia Deepen Ties To Oppose US’s Destabilizing Actions
Clearing the FOG speaks with Patrick Lawrence, a journalist and professor with expertise in Asia, about what good relations between...
read moreIsraeli Protesters Say They’re Defending Freedom. Palestinians Know Better.
The judiciary that protesters say protects their freedom is a key architect of the apartheid regime that has stolen so much freedom...
read moreNuclear Power Plant Explosions Keep on Coming – The Monticello Nuclear Plant Joins the List of Exploding Nuclear Plants
A nuclear power plant explosion cover-up is in process once again. An explosion damaged the Minnesota, Monticello nuclear reactor...
read moreChina: Democracy and Development
Today’s so-called western democracies are governed by one or two chamber parliaments. Representatives are often heavily influenced by...
read moreThe US War Drum Against China Sounds Like: Tik.Tok.
The ongoing effort to investigate and ban TikTok is not about our privacy, but about fueling more aggression against China....
read moreThe monumental shift taking place in the Middle East
With this new agreement, Iran and Saudi Arabia have turned over a new leaf in their relationship as each side pursues their...
read moreHow American Cultural Assumptions Keep Us From Having Universal Health Care
The first belief is that America is the greatest nation in the world, and hence our health care is better than anywhere else. Second,...
read moreA State of Never-Ending Crisis: The Government Is Fomenting Mass Hysteria
With alarming regularity, the nation is being subjected to a spate of violence that terrorizes the public, destabilizes the country,...
read more‘Nothing Short of Catastrophic’: Federal Judge Strikes Down ACA Preventative Care Provision
“Another reason why we need Medicare for All—the milquetoast ACA is being dismantled before our eyes,” said one...
read moreWhy Biden’s Transit Ban Is Inhumane
The proposed asylum rule violates the law, endangers the vulnerable, and undermines U.S. interests.
read moreNew York City Retirees Fight Their Own Unions To Stop Catastrophic Health Care Cuts
New York City’s Municipal Labor Committee voted March 9 to scrap some of the best retiree health care coverage in the country. The...
read moreHere Are the Senators Taking the Most Money from the NRA
The pro-gun group is going through a rough patch, but its grip on the GOP holds tight.
read moreReagan’s Treason, Two Bushes: A $23 Million Payoff
Last week, a Texas pol, Ben Barnes, confessed that he was personally involved—and therefore an eyewitness to–high...
read more“The Iran-Saudi deal is a fatal blow to the Arab-Israeli pact against Iran”, interview with Dr. Javad Masoumi
Due to the fact that both countries are Muslim, Iran and Saudi Arabia will never directly go to war with each other. But they have...
read moreAlert; Biden administration moves ahead with massive Gulf of Mexico drilling auction, weeks after approving Willow Project
On Wednesday, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held a lease sale for an area that’s more than double the...
read moreUS Minimum Wage Would Be $42 Today If It Rose as Much as Wall St. Bonuses: Analysis
“The total bonus pool for 190,800 New York City-based Wall Street employees in 2022 was $33.7 billion—enough to pay for...
read moreFresh Clashes Rock France As Protests Shift To Water Dispute
“While the country is rising up to defend pensions, we will simultaneously stand up to defend water,” said the organisers....
read moreEvacuations in Minnesota After Fiery Derailment of Train Carrying Ethanol
The train was operated by BNSF, which has lobbied aggressively against safety regulations in recent years.
read moreCongress Has Been Captured by the Arms Industry
It’s important to note that the $842 billion proposed price tag for the Pentagon next year will only be the beginning of what...
read moreThe Mouse Roared: Disney has quietly foiled De Santis’s Plan to control its Florida businesses
According to an article just published in the Orlando Sentinel, the day before the Florida House voted to give De Satanis (R-FL)...
read moreWhy We Must Defend Against the GOP Plan to Destroy Public Education
Our public schools shouldn’t be pawns for politicians’ ambitions. Or defunded and destroyed by ideologues. We are at a...
read moreHouse Progressives Offer Biden ‘Bold Vision’ With Executive Action Agenda for 2023
“The list that we have arrived at is not just a messaging exercise,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal said. “These are actions...
read moreProgressives decry Biden’s pivot to right in run-up to 2024: ‘Feet to the fire’
From oil to immigration, the president’s reversal from his 2020 campaign pledges might turn away more voters than it attracts...
read moreLack of Climate Outrage: US Policy and Media Indifferent, Still
We still do not see the outrage where it matters. We still confront deniers. And our governments are not taking the climate crisis...
read morePermit to buy handgun no longer required in North Carolina
North Carolina residents can now buy a handgun without getting a permit from a local sheriff, after the Republican-controlled...
read moreExxon in the classroom: how big oil money influences US universities
Princeton denies Exxon has had an undue influence over the university’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, which...
read morePoll: Most Say Government Spends ‘Too Little’ On Social Security And Health
the percentage of Americans in the poll who say the government spends “too much” also say the government spends too...
read moreBiden-Netanyahu spat bursts into full view
Netanyahu’s defiant response to Biden overnight Wednesday shook Israel’s political and security establishment and exposed the prime...
read more‘Enough Is Enough’: Democrats Propose Plan to Combat GOP’s Anti-Trans Onslaught
“Lives are at stake. The health, safety, and freedom of trans people are at stake,” said Sen. Ed Markey. “Congress...
read moreAI leaders call for a Pause to AI
A group of the highest level AI leaders, though notably not all of them at the leading companies like OpenAI, have signed a joint...
read more“Constitutional Crisis” in Israel – Yehudism is the driving force
Yehudism is a supremacist, predatory, violent and murderous ideology, which evolved in Israel out of Orthodox-Judaism, fostered and...
read moreTwitter pushes hate speech to ‘For You’ pages despite Elon Musk pledge
Twitter’s recommendation algorithm pushes racist and hateful content into the “For You” timelines of users who follow...
read moreDemocracy vs Dictatorship: A U.S. Case Study
We are rapidly approaching an inflection point; either a rise back to a strong democracy, or a descent into the dark dictatorship...
read moreIraq and Syria survived the US-NATO attack and the destruction
The destruction of two nations, sitting side by side in the Middle East, began in 1996 with the strategy paper called “A Clean...
read moreBrazil and China sign pact to abandon dollar
Beijing and Brasilia have signed an agreement on trade in mutual currencies, abandoning the US dollar as an intermediary, and are...
read moreSpanish company provided CIA with information leading to Julian Assange’s arrest
Emails from the owner of UC Global reveal that he sold data about the Wikileaks founder’s legal defense strategy to the intelligence...
read moreMoscow outlines Ukraine peace demands
Russia’s deputy foreign minister has listed ten steps Kiev must take before hostilities can end
read moreChina warns of retaliation if Taiwan’s president meets US House speaker during visit
Beijing has urged the US not to allow Tsai Ing-wen to transit through the US, saying it would be a ‘provocation’...
read moreUN Security Council Won’t Probe Nord Stream Bombing
The Only Members Who Voted In Favor Of Investigating The Sabotage Were Russia, China, And Brazil.
read moreRussia’s Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Belarus: Escalation or Deterrence?
while the decision was officially made after the United Kingdom announced it would supply depleted uranium munitions to the Kiev...
read moreEverything that can be done must done to avert global nuclear annihilation.
There’s always an excuse for nuclear madness, and the United States has certainly provided ample rationales for the Russian...
read moreUS-Israel Tensions Over Judicial Overhaul Burst Into Open
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel responded defiantly on Wednesday to sharp criticism from President Biden over his...
read moreVideo: War and Crimes against Humanity. “Fake Intelligence” and the Destruction of Countries
In this video interview, Michel Chossudovsky reviews the war crimes committed by US-NATO against numerous countries in the wake of...
read moreAmerican Consensus on Ukraine Has Fractured
Here’s how the war could play out in the 2024 presidential campaign.
read moreCommitting Acts of Kindness Is Good for Your Brain
When we undertake an act of kindness, endorphins, oxytocin and dopamine are released in our brains.
read more‘A Great Start’: Peace Advocates Cheer Senate Repeal of Iraq War Authorization
“A larger and far more consequential challenge remains: repealing the 2001 AUMF which authorized the global war on...
read moreIt’s immoral to serve in an immoral military
Deciding to enter the military is only morally justifiable if your country’s military is used in a moral and just way. There’s a...
read moreRights Groups Blame Horrific Mexico Fire on ‘Inhumane’ Migration Policies
“The U.S. and Mexican governments must work together to ensure that migrants receive access to asylum and to fair and efficient...
read more31 Ideas To Meaningfully Celebrate Earth Day (2023)
April 22 is Earth Day! This annual celebration is an opportunity to raise awareness and advocate for change around the issues most...
read moreBad Faith UN Report On Nicaragua Whitewashes Violent US-Backed Coup
A New, Anonymously-Produced UN Report Denouncing Nicaragua’s Government Whitewashes The Brutal US-Backed 2018 Coup Against It While...
read moreAlert: Biden to auction off Italy-sized chunk of Gulf of Mexico for oil drilling
In latest blow to Joe Biden’s reputation as the ‘climate president’, 73.3m acres of the gulf will be offered for fossil fuel...
read morePolice Use ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons To Crush Social Movements Worldwide
A New Report Finds That More Than 121,000 People Globally Were Injured Or Killed By Crowd-Control Weapons Since 2015....
read moreDrug overdose antidote Narcan goes over-the-counter
The FDA move came as a top Biden official called fentanyl overdose deaths ‘the single greatest challenge we face as a country.’...
read moreSupreme Court justices under new ethics disclosures on trips, other gifts
Supreme Court justices and all federal judges must provide a fuller public accounting of free trips, meals and other gifts they...
read moreCalifornia takes on oil companies again with law that could cap profits in state
The California governor’s oil profits cap is another blow to one of Sacramento’s most formidable lobbying powers....
read moreNY to Pay Broadwater $5.5 Million After Wrongful Conviction for Sebold’s Rape
Anthony J. Broadwater spent 16 years in prison after being wrongly convicted in the assault in Syracuse, N.Y., which Ms. Sebold, a...
read moreIt Is Time to Show the American People Photographs of Children Massacred by Gun Violence
Pictures convey reality in a way that words cannot. One of these days, the parents of children murdered in a school shooting may make...
read moreHow the AR-15 became a powerful political, cultural symbol in America
The AR-15 wasn’t supposed to be a best-seller. It’s the result of a dramatic shift in American gun culture fueled by the...
read moreIdaho GOP Invents ‘Abortion Trafficking’ Crime to Block Minors From Care
“Human trafficking is a terrible crime where one person takes another person against their will,” said one state...
read more‘I Don’t Like Censorship’: Omar Slams Proposed TikTok Ban as Hawley Aims to Fast-Track Passage
“There are very legitimate concerns about privacy and the harvesting of private user data on social media platforms, but this...
read moreIn Criminal Cases, Poor People Lose
In criminal cases, poor people lose most of the time. Not because indigent defense is inadequately funded, although it is. And not...
read moreAlert; AI could replace 300 million workers
Two-thirds of jobs in the US and Europe are vulnerable to some degree of Artificial Intelligence automation, a report has claimed...
read moreDonald Trump hush money grand jury takes one-month hiatus
Despite his false claim he would be indicted last week, Donald Trump isn’t going to see any indictment any time soon — at least...
read moreIsrael Protests: “Democracy” in an Apartheid Regime?
The glaring omission in the demonstrations has been any mention of those who are the primary targets of the new regime — the...
read moreForget geoengineering. We need to stop burning fossil fuels. Right now
Pie-in-the-sky fantasies of carbon capture and geoengineering are a way for decision-makers to delay taking real action...
read moreHouse Republicans Are Becoming a Bigger Thorn in Alvin Bragg’s Side
The Manhattan DA shot down another request for testimony from three committee chairmen, who have threatened to subpoena Bragg should...
read more‘Lesser Evil’ Biden Wants More Border Patrol Than MAGA Republicans
Over The Weekend, Biden Bragged About His Support For Even More Resources Than “MAGA Republicans” To “Secure The Border” On Twitter....
read moreElon Musk has turned Twitter into a disinformation service for hire, and it’s getting much worse
One of Musk’s first actions in his ridiculous purchase of Twitter was to set up the $8/month “Twitter Blue” accounts that allowed...
read moreThe fight to expose corporations’ real impact on the climate
Most carbon emissions caused by businesses are hidden from sight.
read moreIRAQ 20 Years after “Shock and Awe.” The Wealthy Prevail at the Expense of World Safety and Freedom
We will talk in this episode about the illegality of this war with the complicity of the United Nations Security Council, the truth...
read moreAlert; Biden’s rightward shift linked to hire of new Chief of Staff
Recently, the Biden White House has taken a very abrupt and very unwelcome shift to the right, as seen in the controversial decisions...
read moreCredit Suisse Complicit in ‘Massive’ Conspiracy to Help Rich Americans Dodge Taxes: Senate Report
“Republican budget cuts have decimated the IRS’s ability to root out this kind of offshore tax evasion scheme,”...
read moreAlert: Without Rank Choice Voting Trump Could Win the 2024 Nomination
Like in 2016, the pathway to the nomination is clear due to the “winner take all” rules in most GOP states; Rank Choice...
read moreU.S. and Mexico weighing deal for Mexico to crack down on fentanyl going north while U.S. cracks down on guns going south
The tentative agreement is the result of months of tense discussions between top Biden administration officials and the Mexican...
read more‘Huge Blow to the Rule of Law,’ Donziger Says of Supreme Court Decision on Chevron Case
“The three liberal Supreme Court justices decided to let Donziger’s absurd contempt conviction stand,” said one...
read moreGinni Thomas backed Donald Trump’s attempted coup. Now the Supreme Court spouse has a new project
The Post’s scoop is that this new Thomas-led group had nearly $600,000 funneled to it between 2019-2022 from anonymous...
read moreThe End of the World Has Always Been Just Around the Corner
We’ve been predicting the world’s final days from the very beginning—it now just seems closer than ever before....
read moreThey’re rebooting “Axis Of Evil” on the 20th Anniversary of the Iraq invasion
The western political/media class has suddenly resurrected the phrase “Axis of Evil” in recent days to refer to the increasing...
read moreA $1 trillion defense budget would be madness
Total spending on national defense — including work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy — comes in at $886...
read more‘The Billionaire Bailout’: FDIC Chair Says the Biggest Deposit Accounts at SVB Held $13 Billion
“The bailout really did protect billionaires from taking a modest haircut,” one observer wrote in response to the FDIC...
read moreAnti-Abortion Republicans Are Pushing State Legislation to Undermine Election Results
The Republican Party has a problem: Individual freedom for women to choose how they handle their reproductive health is wildly...
read moreThe SVB Collapse Reveals the Class Bias in American Policymaking
When bankers blow their businesses up, it’s no-questions-asked bailout time. When student borrowers need relief, not so much....
read moreCould the Final Surprise in Russia’s War in Ukraine Be a Mushroom Cloud?
Though neither Russia nor the United States seeks a nuclear war, it’s at least possible that they could slide into one....
read moreOh Look, More Dead Kids
What to say. More gun carnage, this time in Nashville, where three children and three adults were shot dead at a private Christian...
read moreWhat Ukraine Needs to Learn From Afghanistan
The world’s biggest economic loser in 2022 was Ukraine, where the economy collapsed by 35 percent according to the International...
read moreWith US Opposed, UN Security Council Rejects Russia-Led Push for Nord Stream Probe
Brazil and China supported Russia’s request while the U.S. and other members of the United Nations Security Council abstained....
read moreWest’s Uneven Response to Human Rights Crimes Exposes Broken Global System: Amnesty
“As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75, Amnesty International insists that a rules-based international system...
read moreSenate Defeats Cruz Amendment That Would Have Authorized War With Iran
One observer called the Texas Republican’s proposal “pernicious.”
read moreMike Pence must testify about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, 2021, judge rules
A federal judge has decided that former Vice President Mike Pence must testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with Donald...
read moreHealth experts call for bold action to prioritize health over profit
A new Series published in The Lancet describes how, although commercial entities can contribute positively to health and society, the...
read moreTeachers Union Leader Calls for Defending Public Education From ‘Dangerous’ GOP Attacks
“A great nation does not fear people being educated,” said American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten....
read moreJon Stewart: Here’s why Trump was elected president in the first place
Stewart told Zakaria, “The reason why Donald Trump became popular in the first place and the reason (for) these populist...
read more‘The Inhumanity Defies Words’: Italy Seizes Banksy-Funded Migrant Rescue Ship as Dozens Drown
“These deaths are not an accident nor a tragedy,” said the ship’s crew. “They are wanted.”...
read moreScientists warned a decade ago American lives were shortening. Then it got worse
A decade after a landmark report on Americans’ shorter lives, the problem has only gotten worse. Unlike other wealthy nations,...
read moreRussia’s UN mission accuses US of ‘discrimination’
Washington delays Russian diplomats’ visas and imposes travel restrictions on them, an official says
read moreChina And Russia Deepen Ties To Oppose US’s Destabilizing Actions
Clearing the FOG speaks with Patrick Lawrence, a journalist and professor with expertise in Asia, about what good relations between...
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