by Tom Engelhardt | Jul 28, 2021 | War & Peace
It was all so long ago, in a world seemingly without challengers. Do you even remember when we Americans lived on a planet with a recumbent Russia, a barely rising China, and no obvious foes except what later came to be known as an “axis of evil,” three countries then...
by John Feffer | Jul 22, 2021 | Labor, Trade, & Finance, War & Peace
My wife and I were recently driving in Virginia, amazed yet again that the GPS technology on our phones could guide us through a thicket of highways, around road accidents, and toward our precise destination. The artificial intelligence (AI) behind the soothing voice...
by Mandy Smithberger, William D. Hartung | Jun 30, 2021 | Democracy & Governance, Environment, Health, Labor, Trade, & Finance, War & Peace
President Biden’s first Pentagon budget, released late last month, is staggering by any reasonable standard. At more than $750 billion for the Defense Department and related work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy, it represents one of the highest levels...
by John Feffer | Jun 9, 2021 | Democracy & Governance, Health
I went to a birthday party recently. The celebrants greeted each other with hugs on the patio. After an outdoor barbeque dinner, we stood shoulder to shoulder around the island in the kitchen, eating cake from small paper plates. We sang “Happy Birthday.” Ordinarily,...
by Karen Greenberg | May 5, 2021 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights
The Guantánamo conundrum never seems to end. Twelve years ago, I had other expectations. I envisioned a writing project that I had no doubt would be part of my future: an account of Guantánamo’s last 100 days. I expected to narrate in reverse, the episodes in a book I...
