By : Norman Solomon


The USA’s Systemic Racism includes Its Wars

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SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jun 27 2023 (IPS) - A recent Justice Department report concluded that “systemic” racial bias in the Minneapolis Police Department “made what happened to George Floyd possible.”

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Biden 2024 Decision Pits the Party’s Elites Against Most Democrats

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SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jan 24 2023 (IPS) - Denial at the top of the Democratic Party about Joe Biden’s shaky footing for a re-election run in 2024 became more untenable over the weekend. As the New York Times reported, investigators “seized more than a half-dozen documents, some of them classified, at President Biden’s residence” in Delaware.

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Biden to Democrats: Nominate Me– Whether You Like It or Not

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SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jan 9 2023 (IPS) - With 2023 underway, Democrats in office are still dodging the key fact that most of their party’s voters don’t want President Biden to run for re-election. Among prominent Democratic politicians, deference is routine while genuine enthusiasm is sparse.

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U.S. to Russia: Do as We Say, Not as We Do

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SAN FRANCISCO, USA , Feb 2 2022 (IPS) - Hidden in plain sight, the extreme hypocrisy of the U.S. position on NATO and Ukraine cries out for journalistic coverage and open debate in the USA’s major media outlets. But those outlets, with rare exceptions, have gone into virtually Orwellian mode, only allowing elaboration on the theme of America good, Russia bad.

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Ominous History in Real Time: Where We Are Now in the USA

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SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jan 17 2022 (IPS) - The final big legislative achievement of 2021 was a bill authorizing $768 billion in military spending for the next fiscal year. President Biden signed it two days after the Christmas holiday glorifying the Prince of Peace.

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