William Schlamm News Today

As the Pentagon gains approval for yet another record-breaking budget, the editors examine a perennial question: Why does the United States oligarchy need such…

The 2016 presidential campaign was more a no-holds- barred mud-wrestling match than a political contest. It was our most rancorous, mendacious election since 1964, when Senator Barry Goldwater was declared by the media to be “psychologically unfit” to be president and Democrats said his campaign left them hearing the sound of Nazi boots in the streets. Scurrilous charges by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump surrogates became badges of honor.

There is an active, influential, and well-paid minority of pundits and politicians in America who apparently believe that escalating conflict between nuclear powers—and even nuclear war itself—is not really that big a deal.

Today's advocates of escalation in Ukraine are embracing an updated version of "Better dead than Red"