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Dressed in green military fatigues and a blue garrison cap, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for Niger’s ruling junta, took to local television last month to criticize the United States and sever the long-standing military partnership between the two countries. “The government of Niger, taking into account the aspirations and interests of its people, revokes, with immediate effect, the agreement concerning the status of United States military personnel and civilian Defense Department employees,” he said... Читать дальше...

Protecting our electric car industry and other green technologies is probably a good idea in order to give them some breathing space to grow and compete. It also makes sense to have productive capacity for advanced semi-conductors, so as not to be dependent on Taiwan in the event of a military conflict. But it really is not okay that our policies are making China angry. We have to pursue policies that are in the U.S. national interest, but we should not be looking to gratuitously put it in China’s face. Читать дальше...

One of the most popular parlor games in America at the moment might be called: What will the Next American Civil War look like? Among the many scenarios being kicked around is the one dramatized in director Alex Garland’s upcoming thriller Civil War (in theaters April 12). In Garland’s film, the United States are again More

President Obama in 2015 removed Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism (SSOT). President Trump reversed that action in January 2020, thereby aggravating economic difficulties for Cuba. President Joe Biden needs to end the designation. The time is now for representatives, senators, and other elected officials to pressure him. Cuba is no More

The human mind is often incapable of tolerating the limitless nature of a universe, the absence of a divine architect, or appreciate that intended designs may be absent when it comes to events awful, ghastly and catastrophic.  A disaster with some human agency is bound to have arisen because of a constructed plan, a template to More

Books about union presidents are usually penned by professional writers — either academic historians, labor journalists, or paid flacks. Past accounts of the life and work of labor organization chiefs like John L. Lewis, Walter Reuther, Jimmy Hoffa, or Cesar Chavez have run the gamut from hagiographic to constructively critical. Few have had a biographer More

The poet, musician, writer, pot liberator, raconteur, Tigers fan, political radical, producer of MC5, founder of the White Panthers and occasional CounterPunch, John Sinclair died this week at 82. He seemed older. He seemed younger. He seemed like he’d always, or never really, been here. He seemed timeless, tapping into some deep roots of the More

Recent federal announcements declare that millions of federal dollars are coming to the West to “restore” forest health and “reduce” the risk of large-scale wildfire, primarily through logging and prescribed fire. However, the underlying assumptions of this flood of dollars are misguided. First, large-scale wildfires result from climate/weather conditions, not fuels. Climate change is fueling the More

The Biden administration continues to act contrary to logic and humane values in response to Israel’s war policies. Despite overwhelming evidence of Israel’s war crimes and acts that constitute genocide, the administration plies the right-wing Israeli government with more weapons. The latest arms package being prepared by the administration will reportedly be the largest since More