Jonathan Cook: Yes, Trump is vulgar. But the US global shakedown is the same one as ever
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook
If there is one thing we can thank US President Donald Trump for, it is this: he has decisively stripped away...
Chris Hedges: The purge of the Deep State and the road to dictatorship
ANALYSIS: By Chris Hedges
The Trump administration’s war with the Deep State is not a purgative. It is not about freeing us from the tyranny...
Eugene Doyle: Yellow Peril! Red Peril! ‘We cannot hide anymore’. Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea.
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
The Western media went into overdrive this week to work the laconic Kiwis into a mild frenzy over three Chinese naval...
Caitlin Johnstone: Israel pushes new atrocity narrative just as ceasefire deadline approaches
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
A new narrative is being aggressively pushed by Israel and its apologists to justify resuming the Gaza genocide, conveniently just as...
Eugene Doyle: Will New Zealand ‘invade’ the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
The country’s leading daily newspaper, The New Zealand Herald, screamed out this online headline by a columnist on February 10: “Should...
Chris Hedges: The US empire self-destructs
The United States shares the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state...