Biden’s forever war
On Saturday, US President Joe Biden ended his week-long tour of Europe to mobilize Nato for conflict with Russia with a belligerent rant in Warsaw, Poland. Media coverage of Biden’s…
Regarding war crimes
United States Vice President Kamala Harris, speaking at a press conference in Romania on Friday, pointed her finger at Russian actions in Ukraine and declared, “We are clear that any…
The reality brokers
“In the case of both Big Tech and governmental surveillance agencies, undergirding a commitment to the inevitable and imminent time after-Earth is the appeal of science fiction aesthetics, concepts and…
US in Syria
In 2013, amidst highly-doubted, unproven allegations of a chemical attack by Syrian President Assad (debunked a year later), the threat of war escalated, and so did opposition to the war.…
Hurricane Maria and the cover-up
On Tuesday, a Harvard University study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine revealing that the true death toll from Hurricane María in Puerto Rico may be as…
Unreliable ally
As the World Socialist Web Site warned in a perspective published in April 2015 in response to the announcement that Iran and the great powers had reached the ‘framework’ for…
And the award goes to… witch hunting
This year’s Golden Globe Awards, with its unchallenged support for the #MeToo movement, was a wretched spectacle, Hollywood and identity politics at their worst. The smug crowd of millionaires, and…
False alarm
A false report of an impending ballistic missile attack on Hawaii on Saturday sent more than one million people fleeing to shelter, with many believing they only had minutes to…
The salesman
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s new film The Salesman, in this writer’s opinion, merits a positive review. The film is remarkable and rich, the kind of experience you turn over in…
Best films of 2016
Although technologies have sped up – and made possible – many things, they cannot by themselves overcome the gap between reality and its artistic assimilation and representation. That gap, in…
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