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Approaching the terrorist attacks as a memorializing event on the anniversary generally avoids deeper inquiry into the historic U.S. role in the Middle East and Afghanistan, write Jeremy Stoddard and Diana Hess. By Jeremy Stoddard and Diana Hess University of Wisconsin-Madison The phrase “N

Planned fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. accounts for more than a third of new oil and gas extraction projects through 2050, according to Oil Change International. By Jake Johnson Common Dreams The United States as "planet-wrecker-in-chief" by a report released Tuesday that points out the

Tony Blinken, the top U.S. diplomat, just made comments about U.S.-supplied long-range missiles that further raise the risks of a direct confrontation between the world's two nuclear superpowers.  By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com.au Listen to Tim Foley reading this article. During

Considering the common U.S. reaction to 9/11, we must ask: Can the U.S. do without its exceptionalist consciousness? Or is this consciousness indispensable to America? By Patrick Lawrence Original to ScheerPost Mut zur Ethik is a forum associated with a publishing cooperative that holds con

The road to possible nuclear Armageddon has been littered with lost opportunities for peaceful co-existence with Russia and signposted by repeated U.S. provocations, but Ukraine's neutrality remains key to everyone's security, writes Edward Lozansky. By Edward Lozansky Special to Consortiu

A pattern of regret — distinct from remorse — for the venture militarism that failed in Afghanistan and Iraq does exist, writes Norman Solomon. But the disorder persists in U.S. foreign policy.  By Norman Solomon TomDispatch This article is adapted from the introduction to Norman Solomon’s

Chile under Pinochet was the experimenting ground for an economic project, neoliberalism, that inspired both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It was also a laboratory for torture and enforced disappearance of human beings, writes Brad Evans.  By Brad Evans  University of Bath For the

When the Chilean military overthrew Allende’s democratically elected government in September 1973, U.K. officials worked with the new junta as it committed widespread atrocities, declassified files show, Mark Curtis reports. By Mark Curtis Declassified UK “For British interests… the

As the regime murdered political opponents, a U.K. propaganda unit passed material to Chile’s military intelligence and MI6 connived with a key orchestrator of the coup, newly declassified files show, John McEvoy reports. By  John McEvoy Declassified UK Foreign Office helped Pinoch

It’s the damnedest thing how you’re called a Kremlin agent for saying the war was provoked by NATO expansionism and it serves U.S. interests, even when NATO and U.S. officials openly admit the same thing, writes Caitlin Johnstone.  By Caitlin Johnstone Caitlin’s Newsletter  Listen to Tim