Last October, dozens of House progressives were slapped down by the US foreign policy establishment for floating, in the words of one congressional staffer, “the softest…

Branko Marcetic
In 1998, in the midst of a years-long U.S. campaign to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Gen. Anthony Zinni realized the United…
On May 17, journalist Kit Klarenberg was arriving at Luton Airport on a visit to his home country of the United Kingdom…
The political narratives fed to the US public by the two major parties and mainstream media often have so little to do…
Twenty-one members of Congress last week called for lifting US sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela, including most of the Squad. The pushback…
This coming Monday, Brandon Johnson will take office as mayor of Chicago with no shortage of urgent priorities, or of forces arrayed…
The US government is sanctioning so many countries right now, it’s hard to keep track of them all. There are the countries…
The news that four members of the far-right organization the Proud Boys were just convicted for seditious conspiracy, including their former leader…
One of the big questions of the crackdown on the “Cop City” protests in Atlanta is what exactly happened to Manuel “Tortuguita”…
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S. policy toward the conflict has inter-mingled uneasily with the U.S. government’s growing convergence with the…