It’s been 20 years since the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York City’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and included the hijacking and crashing of four airliners with all their passengers. The casualties resulting from the worst terrorist attack in...
Phyllis Bennis assesses escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran after the President Trump ordered the assassination of Iran’s military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, who led Iranian military operations in the Middle East as head of his nation’s elite Quds...
As some 17 Democrats have announced their intention to run for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination, launched fundraising campaigns and begun to make stump speeches across key primary states, it’s clear that the progressive wing of the party is in the...
With a succession of sometimes shocking smart phone videos revealing widespread police violence targeting people of color across America and the parallel rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, U.S. corporate media has focused new attention on the issue of...
Thanks in part to the economic agenda of Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders during his unsuccessful Democratic party primary campaign, and the Occupy Wall Street movement that emerged in 2011, the issue of income and wealth inequality has become a topic of serious...
Much of the world’s attention continues to be focused on the savage violence carried out by ISIS in Iraq, Syria and more recently in Libya. In an act that appeared to lend urgency to President Obama’s call for Congress to formally authorize the ongoing U.S. war...