Section: AlterNet (USA)
‘The Scope of Our Failure’: The Real Story of Our Decades-Long Foreign Policy Disaster That Set the Middle East on Fire
The brilliant Andrew Bacevich explains why our massive march to folly in Middle East has to be seen as one war. I first interviewed Andrew Bacevich, the soldier turned scholar, after he spoke at the Hope Club, an old-line gents’ establishment in Providence, Rhode Island. That evening he outlined a dozen or so “theses,” as he called them in...
Trump Advisor’s Putin Connections Freak Out Security Establishment (Video)
As Trump becomes the GOP’s official nominee, security analysts say his advisers warrant increased scrutiny. Late last year, the world marveled at the budding bromance between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Putin, who is alleged to have ordered the jailing and murder of political opponents and...
Trump Advisor’s Putin Connections Freaks Out Security Establishment (Video)
As Trump becomes the GOP’s official nominee, security analysts say his advisers warrant increased scrutiny. Late last year, the world marveled at the budding bromance between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Putin, who is alleged to have ordered the jailing and murder of political opponents and...
Donald Trump’s New Secret Weapon: How the Man Who Ran the ‘Torturer’s Lobby’ Is Securing the Billionaire’s Nomination
Paul Manafort has represented oligarchs and tyrants. So it makes sense that now he’s representing Donald Trump. Perhaps one of the most unnerving political developments over these last few days has been the beginning of the reluctant acceptance of Donald Trump among the Republican establishment. Watching the likes of Senator Bob Corker on...
We’re Speeding Toward a Climate Change Catastrophe…and That Makes 2016 the Most Important Election in a Generation
How the U.S. confronts climate change will shape the world for generations; neither Clinton nor Trump seems to care. Before dropping out of the presidential race last month, Marco Rubio repeatedly declared that the 2016 presidential election is “the most important in a generation.” Such language is, of course, not uncommon to hear during election...
Could Nuclear Disaster Come to America?
A Fukushima on the Hudson? To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.It was a beautiful spring day and, in the control room of the nuclear reactor, the workers decided to deactivate the security system for a systems test. As they started to do so, however, the floor of the...
Inside the Panama Papers: Massive Leak Shows Worldwide Leaders’ Corruption
One of the biggest leaks in history exposes how global elites and their relatives hide money in offshore tax havens. “My life is in danger,” read an anonymous message. “No meeting, ever.”“Why are you doing this?” a German newspaper asked.“I want to make these crimes public,” the whistleblower wrote.An enormous cache of documents was just...
6 Things You Need to Know About the Bombshell ‘Panama Papers’ Leak
Anonymous whistleblower unloads massive trove of files exposing how world leaders and other elites hide money and evade taxes. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and over 100 other media partners dropped the explosive “Panama Papers” leak on Sunday. The trove is described by...
Is the Russian Withdrawal a Message to Assad?
The Independent’s Patrick Cockburn says you can’t have negotiations to end the war when the largest armed opposition groups, al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State, are absent. Russia has begun withdrawing its main forces from Syria after five months of air strikes targeting Syrian rebels and ISIS. This occurs at the same time as...
The New Reality in Syria: Why Russia Announced a Military Withdrawal and Saudi Arabia Is Taking on Hezbollah
Unpacking a series of surprising moves by the big players in Syria. Unexpectedly, Russia’s Vladimir Putin announced early this week that the bulk of his armed forces would withdraw from Syria. Putin says Russia attained its objective in this intervention. What were its aims? They were three, and each has been substantially met.To bolster...
