by Michael Klare | Apr 4, 2018 | Redev, War & Peace
Think of it as the most momentous military planning on Earth right now. Who’s even paying attention, given the eternal changing of the guard at the White House, as well as the latest in tweets, sexual revelations, and investigations of every sort? And yet it...
by John Feffer | Mar 27, 2018 | Human Rights, Redev
Donald Trump has a plan to solve America’s drug crisis: kill the drug dealers. “We have pushers and drugs dealers, they are killing hundreds and hundreds of people,” Trump said at a recent White House summit on opioid abuse. “Some countries have a...
by Phyllis Bennis | Mar 23, 2018 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
This article is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and In These Times. It was a lot to take in, even in these whipsawed media moments. In one 24-hour news cycle, President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, appointed the war and...
by John Feffer | Mar 21, 2018 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
Five hundred years ago, a popular test to flush out witches was called “ordeal by water.” Dunk an alleged witch into a lake. If she sinks, she’s innocent. If she floats, her guilt is plain for all to see and she can be safely burned at the stake. By this...
by Conn Hallinan | Mar 20, 2018 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev
More than a quarter of a century ago, much of the European center-left made a course change, edging away from its working class base, accommodating itself to the globalization of capital, and handing over the post-World War II social contract to private industry....