by John Feffer | Sep 29, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Redev
The white mobs didn’t care whom they killed as long as the victims were Black. They murdered people in public with guns and rocks. They set fire to houses and slaughtered families trying to escape the flames. In East St. Louis in July 1917, white vigilantes lynched...
by Mandy Smithberger | Sep 16, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Health, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
The inadequate response of both the federal and state governments to the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the United States, creating what could only be called a national security crisis. More than 190,000 Americans are dead, approximately half of...
by Michael Klare | Sep 2, 2020 | Redev, War & Peace
With Covid-19 incapacitating startling numbers of U.S. service members and modern weapons proving increasingly lethal, the American military is relying ever more frequently on intelligent robots to conduct hazardous combat operations. Such devices, known in the...
by Andrew Bacevich | Aug 19, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Energy, Environment, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
Assume Joe Biden wins the presidency. Assume as well that he genuinely intends to repair the damage our country has sustained since we declared ourselves history’s “Indispensable Nation,” compounded by the traumatic events of 2020 that demolished whatever remnants of...
by John Feffer | Jul 28, 2020 | Health, Redev
I don’t trust you. Don’t take it personally. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a friend or a stranger. I don’t care about your identity or your politics, where you work or if you work, whether you wear a mask or carry a gun. I don’t trust you because you are, for the...
