There’s no doubt that Trump welcomed Russian assistance. He recently said he’d pretty much do it all over again.

She is the only candidate who has made ending the wars a centerpiece of her campaign, which will likely lead to her undoing.

On June 19th, Statistica headlined “Number of forcibly displaced people reaches new high”, and when one looks at the data, one finds an even bigger story which stands behind those numbers:

How many people who are appalled by what is happening on the US-Mexico border know that the death toll among refugees there is far lower than on the frontiers of the EU?

If Congress truly wants to question Mueller, here are 20 questions to ask. 

It is strange that Cory Booker refused to raise his hand and commit to returning to the nuclear deal. He does not otherwise seem like an idiot.

The mainstream media seem to judge the Democratic primary debate last night quite differently than the general public.

Edward Curtin reviews the movie, “The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story.”

Here’s how they can get out of it.

When military conflict between the United States and Iran seems to be approaching, and you’re trying to get a clear picture of the situation, I’m only half-kidding when I say there’s a case to be made for staying glued to Fox News. Sure, you’ll hear a lot of pro-war propaganda. But at least you’ll know that’s what it is.

The New York Times has published an anonymously sourced report titled “U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid” about the “placement of potentially crippling malware inside the Russian system at a depth and with an aggressiveness that had never been tried before” ... ...

What if I told you that the solution to political tribalism was astonishingly — almost embarrassingly — simple?

 Poll after poll indicates that the only public institution Americans still trust is the military. Not Congress, not the presidency, not the Supreme Court, the church, or the media. Just the American war machine.

The Cuban connection described here is news to me. 

Shir Hever discusses the dangers of privatizing security and intelligence, as a private company called Black Cube that claims to use Israeli Mossad procedures hires out its services to the highest bidder and goes after international as well as Israeli activists, business people, and politicians

There are three good reasons for Iran to go back to the table, says Patrick Lawrence.

William J. Astore analyzes the fallacies behind the U.S. drive to wage war from the air.

The key role played by three agencies, Ap, AFP, and Reuters, means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world.

Christians? These Christians support a war on Yemen in which huge numbers of people are dying of mutilation, cholera,  and starvation, a war they could stop with a telephone call. 

A leak of classified documents from the French Directorate of Military Intelligence shows that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are extremely dependent on U.S. and European weapons for their war on Yemen.