For U.S. mass media, Henry Kissinger’s quip that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac” rang true. Influential reporters and pundits often…
But numbers don’t get us very far in human terms. And news accounts have limited capacities to connect with real…
Days ago, In These Times reported that the Biden administration is seeking congressional permission “to unilaterally blanket-approve the future sale…
Democrats in Congress have ample reasons to be apprehensive about next year. But their silences and spin increasingly make them…
As the United States continued to drop bombs in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s daily briefings catapulted him into a…
How does our media environment so easily dismiss carnage of this scale? Norman Solomon’s new book, War Made Invisible: How…
Today, with political fashion treating “diplomacy” as a dirty word, the resolute militarism of the U.S. government is bipartisan. While…
But an important question remains unasked: Why are patriotism and war so intertwined in U.S. media and politics?
Twenty-first century lineups of global power and geopolitical agendas have propelled the United States into seemingly endless warfare in countries…
Israel has evolved into a Jewish supremacist state.