What Mike Gravel Meant
What I learned from Mike Gravel are lessons ignored, even mocked by the establishment, writes Joe Lauria.
I first met Sen. Mike Gravel in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York in early 2006 after a mutual friend told me Gravel was contemplating running for president.
Mike Gravel Was on the Right Side of History
By Branko Marcetic While Mike Gravel never earned the respect of the political establishment, he passed from this Earth with his conscience untormented by the ghosts of screaming civilians whose lives those in Washington regularly
Trump’s COVID infection shows why it’s time to retire the nuclear football
By Tom Z. Collina President John Kennedy took powerful pain medications. President Richard Nixon was a heavy drinker. President Ronald Reagan had dementia. And now President Donald Trump has the coronavirus. These conditions can significantly
Forget China, America is the biggest warmonger by far
by David Dodwell Since 2001, the US ‘war on terror’ has killed, injured and displaced millions across 24 countries, while America’s defence spending is nearly 40 per cent of the global total. In contrast, China
Global Expansion of NATO Is Not in Germany’s Interest!
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche This article first appeared in the German-language weekly newspaper Neue Solidarität. It was translated by the EIR staff. June 19—After weeks of rumors, President Trump made it official: The U.S. government plans
Marianne Williamson – Riots in America: Where to Now?
Activist and author Marianne Williamson discusses riots in America and where we should go from here.
Judgment Day for the National Security State
The Coronavirus and the Real Threats to American Safety and Freedom By Andrew Bacevich Americans are facing “A Spring Unlike Any Before.” So warned a front-page headline in the March 13th New York Times. That headline,
The Real Cover-Up
Putting Donald Trump’s Impeachment in Context By Andrew J. Bacevich There is blood in the water and frenzied sharks are closing in for the kill. Or so they think. From the time of Donald Trump’s
Michael Hudson: De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire
Yves here. Another meaty Michael Hudson interview on Guns and Butter. However, I have to vehemently disagree with the claim made by Bonnie Faulkner at the top of the discussion. No one holds guns to
30 years after Tiananmen Square, the U.S. is still trying to destabilize China
Last month marked three decades since the conclusion of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations in China. The anniversary is opportune for Washington and its Western partners to ramp-up their Sinophobic smear campaign while recycling the
