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What Is Happening at the Venezuelan Embassy Is an Outrage

Determined to avoid another war, a group of US peace activists sought and received permission from the legitimate Venezuelan government to form an Embassy Protection Collective
Medea Benjamin ·
On May 1 our peaceful presence was violently besieged by angry Guaido supporters. (Photo: Codepink)
Arms control has become more important than ever before, given that a new nuclear arms race beckons. (Photo: Shutterstock)

A Farewell to Arms Control?

John Feffer ·

Tear gas is only the latest indignity visited upon the people waiting in Mexico for safe passage out of the horror that had become their lives. (Photo: Shutterstock)

It’s a Borderful World

John Feffer ·

"Instead of multilateral trade pacts like NAFTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), or even the WTO, Trump favors bilateral deals rewritten to the (supposed) advantage of the United States." (Photo: Beijing/ Shutterstock)

Beijing’s Bid for Global Power in the Age of Trump

Alfred W. McCoy ·

Golden Shower Diplomacy and the Hidden Meaning of American Decline

Alfred W. McCoy ·

"While chanting his mantra of “America First,” Donald Trump has so far followed policies that have only eased the way for the Chinese dragon to roar past Uncle Sam, with the Russian bear not far behind." (Photo: Presidential Administration of Russia)

Donald Trump Offers a Helping Hand to China and Russia

Giving American isolationism new meaning in the twenty-first century.

Dilip Hiro ·

"In a globalizing world interconnected by trade, the Internet, and the rapid proliferation of nuclear-armed missiles, walls won’t work." (Photo: BBC World Service/flickr/cc)

Tweeting While Rome Burns: The World According to Trump

(Or how to build a wall and lose an empire)

Alfred W. McCoy ·

Most startlingly, emissions from food and agriculture are growing so fast that, if they continue to increase at the current rate, they alone could use up the safe budget for all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Farming for a Small Planet

How we grow food determines who can eat and who cannot—no matter how much we produce.

Frances Moore Lappé ·

Amid Russian Denials, Greenpeace Demands Probe into Source of Nuclear Radiation

Kremlin admits detecting increased radioactivity but denies that Mayak plant, the scene of earlier disaster, is the source

Julia Conley, staff writer ·

Don't Worry, Europe, Radioactive Cloud Likely From Russian Nuclear Plant Accident Deemed 'Harmless'

Ruthenium-106 was detected "in the atmosphere of the majority of European countries" beginning late September, French officials said

Jake Johnson, staff writer ·

"It is all the more scandalous given the extremely high cost of the US health care system, which takes up 17.1 percent of Gross National Product. This is 40 percent higher than the average for high-income countries, but the heavy reliance on private financing leads to severe inefficiencies and inequalities within the system. Around a third of health expenditure is spent on administrative costs rather than infrastructure or patient care."

Lack of Universal Healthcare Should Be a 'National Scandal'

Fundamental rights are denied to millions of Americans because they do not enjoy one of the essential foundations of a fair society: the right to health.

Jimmy Carter ·

Even More Evidence the US Is a Kleptocracy, Not a Meritocracy

Data shows inequality is spiraling out of control

Paul Buchheit ·

We Can’t Fight Climate Change if We Keep Lying to Ourselves

Chris Hedges ·

Battle for the Future: Trump's Dystopian Vision vs. Push for Brave Green World

Is Trump launching a new world order?

Michael T. Klare ·

Bush-Era Foreign Policy Delusions Are Alive and Well in 2017

Trump's foreign policy advisers are plainly unhinged. But the old establishment isn't much better.

Conn Hallinan ·