The US, UK and Australia have all announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The reason given for the move is because of human rights abuses in China, particularly in the turkic-speaking region of Xinjiang. Techdirt has been...

Almost everything said in the U.S. about Israel's assault on the Palestinians is a lie — because we are implicated

On the history of the second amendment, white militias, and border vigilantism… By Angelo Guisado.

Despite generations of imperial murder, torture, rape, and plunder, the British ruling class still gets the brown-nose treatment in historical depictions. Not so in The Favourite, where the royals are shown as the disgusting creatures they were and still are. By Eileen Jones.

He has secured critical backing for a vote to block US support for attacks that are worsening a humanitarian crisis. By John Nichols.

A Native student on why the holiday is a painful reminder of a whitewashed past. By Allen Salway.

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj

Uncivil History

The real meaning of the IPCC report isn’t “climate change is worse than you think.” We knew that. It’s “you now have permission to freak out.” By David Wallace-Wells.

Five-hundred-and-twenty-five years ago, confused Europeans “discovered” the “New World”. Heaps of broken brown bodies marked this great achievement as the Europeans congratulated one another. Brave explorers, selfless men of God, and devout Pilgrims soon began pillaging, raping, and slaughtering their way from sea to sea. They rename our homelands “North America.” Their descendants tell us that those men were seeking their fortunes, trying to save souls, hoping to find simple freedom for themselves. By Katherine Crocker.

The United States has spent far more time obscuring its role in the Saudi-led war in Yemen than in explaining any rationale for it. By Micah Zenko.

Deutsche Welle Documentary

What the U.N. calls the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis” is an unhappy confluence of American media taboos. By Matt Taibbi.

The remains of up to 1,700 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi have been exhumed from 21 mass graves in the Kigali suburbs of Gahoromani in Kabuga, and Masaka, in the past month. The existence of the graves was revealed by a genocide suspect through an outburst while on a drinking spree in April.

“We would call him ‘Little Napoleon.’” By Aram Roston.

Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism. By Alex Ross.

To their credit, Senators Murphy and Lee and Sanders were very clear that a vote to table, rather than directly vote on, their resolution to end the war, would be a cowardly vote not to have a debate and not to obey the U.S. Constitution. By David Swanson. (Mar. 21, 2018)

[Per Boot] If only we'd listened to an eccentric CIA operative, we might have won the Vietnam War. By Andrew J. Bacevich.

On March 17th, 1968, The New York Times ran a brief front page lede headed, “G.I.s’ in Pincer Movement Kill 128 in Daylong Battle...” By Michael Uhl.

In a surprising admission, the head of U.S. Central Command said that CENTCOM does not closely track U.S.-supported Saudi bombing missions in Yemen. By Zaid Jilani.