Soon after the joint US-British bombing campaign ‘Operation Desert Fox’ devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I was complaining to a friend in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad.

As Congress struggles through one budget crisis after another, it is becoming increasingly evident that austerity doesn’t work. We cannot possibly pay off a $16 trillion debt by tightening our belts, slashing public services, and raising taxes. Historically, when the deficit has been reduced, the money supply has been reduced along with it, throwing the [...]

Es preocupante ver que las personas con las que estás siempre en desacuerdo aprecian la película que te gusta, mientras que aquellas con las que rara vez tienes divergencias no pueden soportarla.

Como ustedes saben -aunque hay mucha gente dentro y fuera de Estados Unidos que lo ignora- hay cinco luchadores antiterroristas injustamente presos en las cárceles de Estados Unidos. Presos precisamente por haberse infiltrado en organizaciones terroristas basadas en Miami -y protegidas por diversas instancias del gobierno estadounidense- con el propósito de desbaratar sus planes que [...]

El dilema de Washington ante la “pérdida” del planeta [Este artículo es una adaptación del capítulo “Uprisings” contenido en el libro “Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire”, en el que se ofrecen una serie de entrevistas entre Chomsky y David Barsamian (con nuestro agradecimiento hacia la editorial, Metropolitan [...]

The Strategic Importance of Keystone XL Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually determines how the world turns. Such is the case with the Keystone XL pipeline, which, if built, is slated to bring some of the “dirtiest,” carbon-rich oil [...]

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s hearing on John Brennan’s nomination to be CIA director presents a rare public opportunity for Congress to insist that the White House publicly defend whatever legal reasoning has been adduced to justify the killing of alleged American terrorists working with al-Qaeda on plots to attack the United States.

The US economy is too fragile to reduce spending and raise taxes. Fiscal austerity is a recipe for worse pain. There is an astounding level of confusion surrounding the current US deficit. There are three irrefutable facts about the deficits:

A child is murdered and we thrash about once more in the spectacle of tragedy. “With outrage over Hadiya Pendleton’s slaying spreading from City Hall to the White House,” the Chicago Tribune reported last week, “the 15-year-old became a symbol Wednesday of escalating violence in Chicago while fueling the national debate over guns and crime.”

…and the People Suffer The entrance of the French military into the Malian civil war further complicates a descent into hell which that country has been experiencing for the last two years. Mainstream media attention has largely focused on the emergence of right-wing Islamists associated with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and the threat that [...]