Articles and OpEd’s by author Dee Knight
I’ve just now published a “double review” of two important books: American Exceptionalism & American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News, by Danny Haiphong and Robert Sirvent, and American Exceptionism: Empire & Deep State, by Aaron Good My review is...
The US/NATO confrontation with Russia in Ukraine is achieving just the opposite of America’s aim of preventing China, Russia and their allies from acting independently of U.S. control over their trade and investment policy… the Biden Administration’s plan was to split Russia away from China and then cripple China’s own military and economic viability. But the effect of American diplomacy has been to drive Russia and China together, joining with Iran, India and other allies.
Ukraine’s current leadership and its U.S./NATO backers would like to avoid a settlement that reflects the demographic and historical reality of the country. But this is precisely one key issue that should guide negotiations for a peace agreement. A peace agreement reflecting Russia’s legitimate concerns (voiced for many months and years) would establish a viable basis of cooperation by Russia with Ukraine and with Europe.
As US State Department scrambles to avoid embarrassment at Summit for the Americas in LA, the People’s Summit for Democracy at same time and place has support of 200+ groups
Newsletter: Setting the record straight on the proxy war in Ukraine seems crucial to me now.
Joe Biden “sparked a global uproar” on March 26, declaring Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.”
“Shock and awe” was George Bush’s name for his “Desert Storm” attack on Iraq in 1990-91. A UN report described it as “near apocalyptic.”
Threats and counter-threats flying between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine have caused a flurry of fear and confusion.
President Biden’s December 9-10 “Summit for Democracy” has already stirred up a storm, predictably enough.
“Our responsibility… is to ensure that the competition between our countries does not veer into conflict, whether intended or unintended.”
There have been more than 3,800 reported anti-Asian hate incidents in the US since the start of the pandemic, according to Stop AAPI Hate.
The constant charges of “voter fraud” – really a campaign of attempted suppression of Black voters – hearken back to the Jim Crow era.
The pandemic has changed everything … Solidarity is making a comeback. Some is real, and then there’s the congressional version.
We live in unprecedented times, and the transition to a just society will not happen on November 4 … There is enormous potential.
I may write about many different books here, but the top two for now are Crash Course: from the Good War to the Forever War, by H. Bruce Franklin, and Turn the Guns Around: Mutinies, Soldier Revolts and Revolutions,?by my friend John Catalinotto, an organizer of the...
The recent fawning canonization of George HW Bush (senior) on the occasion of his death was really too much for me. So I appreciate the comments of Glen Ford of Blackagendareport.com. He said, in part:? The daily whitewashing of imperial crimes that masquerades as...