1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (259+ words) Juan Cole Informed Comment The 19th century American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan stressed that a great maritime empire needn’t control the seas but rather must establish dominance over what he called “the narrows.” We would now say “chokepoints.” The United…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (581+ words) Donald Trump, whose war on Iran is the greatest strategic blunder in United States history, is not responsible for triggering the decline of the American empire, but he is responsible for its fatal denouement. This is the end. We are…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (762+ words) Twenty-five years later, Republican politicians are still using 9/11 to justify war in the Middle East. And they’re still lying shamelessly. During remarks outside the Pentagon on Friday commemorating the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (731+ words) Researchers have examined how weakening currents in the Atlantic Ocean could impact global agriculture — and the results are concerning. Weakening Atlantic Ocean currents could cripple agriculture in some of the world’s major breadbaskets, threatening global food security and raising the…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (759+ words) The U.S. is measurably less free than it was when the government launched its war on terror 25 years ago, according to the most comprehensive global index of civil liberties. The most worrisome aspect of this backsliding, advocates and scholars warn, is…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1762+ words) Gerald Horne argues that understanding Du Bois’s radical internationalism is essential to understanding the political crisis—and ideological confusion—of our own time. W.E.B. Du Bois did not suddenly become a radical internationalist late in life. As historian…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (764+ words) Jon Wilson Informed Coment On October 27, Israelis go to the polls in an election fraught with debate about ancient history. The country’s right-wing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has concrete plans to extend sovereignty over much of the West Bank and…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (766+ words) 404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol’s predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime. Border Patrol is running secretive predictive policing units that…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (394+ words) Within any mass movement there exist political currents representing bourgeois and working-class forces and various nuances in between. In the case of this particular movement, which found inspiration from the Civil Rights struggles, bourgeois feminists, personified by Steinem, dominated the…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (647+ words) Neil Thompson Informed Comment Last week, China’s President Xi Jinping made his first state visit to Egypt since 2016, amid deepening economic and security ties between Beijing and one of Washington’s major Arab allies. Egypt’s government said the two sides agreed…...