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John Chuckman is former chief economist for a large Canadian oil company. He has many interests and is a lifelong student of history. He writes with a passionate desire for honesty, the rule of reason, and concern for human decency. John regards it as a badge of honor to have left the United States as a poor young man from the South Side of Chicago when the country embarked on the pointless murder of something like 3 million Vietnamese in their own land because they happened to embrace the wrong economic loyalties. He lives in Canada, which he is fond of calling "the peaceable kingdom." John's columns appear regularly on Counterpunch, Media Monitors, Politics Canada, Baltimore Chronicle, Online Journal, Scoop (New Zealand), Asian Tribune, Aljazeerah.info, Smirking Chimp, Dissident Voice, and many other Internet sites. He has been translated into at least ten languages and is regularly translated into Italian and Spanish. Several of his essays have been published in book collections, including two college texts. His first book was published, The Decline of the American Empire and the Rise of China as a Global Power, published by Constable and Robinson, London
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Friday, February 24, 2017Israel's Terrible Problem: Two States or One? Israel has itself created a terrible problem which it is incapable of solving. That is why it has always been the case that the United States must pretty much dictate a solution, but it is unable to do so, paralyzed as it is by the heavy influence of Israel and America's own apologists and lobbyists.
Sunday, January 29, 2017The Tests Ahead for Trump Donald Trump's path to victory was eased by the fact that the Republican and Democratic parties were brittle, corrupt, hollowed-out institutions ready for cracking, but his tests have only begun, writes John Chuckman.
Friday, December 4, 2015Britain's David Cameron Wants To Use Bombs To Prospect For Gold In Syria He is in fact an intimate part of "the club" which privately regards ISIS and other murdering rogues as tools to an end, and that end is to destroy Assad and turn Syria into a rump state. The club's members always falsely describe the situation in Syria as a civil war rather than what it truly is, an invasion of a peaceful land by the creatures of outside powers.
Sunday, June 15, 2014Understanding Israel's Corrosive Influence on Western Democracy Something troubling is quietly underway in the Western world, that portion of the world's governments who style themselves as liberal democracies and free societies
Saturday, May 24, 2014A Strange, Soulless Man and His Failed Presidency We perhaps can never know what has motivated Obama's behavior as President
Thursday, May 1, 2014A New Cold War? Or Just America's Need For A Villain? Obama's talk of a "pivot" is extremely revealing
Friday, April 18, 2014The Second Mystery Around Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 A second mystery around the disappearance of Flight MH370 has largely gone unnoticed: why hasn't the United States been in the forefront of providing information about it? The implications of this question are massive.
Friday, April 18, 2014Hurtling Into Darkness: America's Great Leap Towards Global Tyranny A unique set of circumstances now works towards a dystopian future in advanced states with no need for jackboots or brutal faces on posters.
Friday, March 7, 2014Vladimir Putin, the World's Last True Statesman Everywhere you look in the West, you find political pygmies rather than statesmen.
Saturday, March 1, 2014Understanding Modern Israel: Why It Is Driving the World Towards Madness Nothing that Israel does in its affairs would be of quite such great concern to the world were it not for the fact that Israel drags along, willy-nilly, the world's greatest power, much like some impressive-looking but feeble-willed, dazed parent stumbling along behind a screaming toddler demanding yet another goody.
Saturday, December 14, 2013The Real Lessons From the Death of Nelson Mandela We have no less an authority than Nelson Mandela himself, in an opinion shared by the equally admirable Bishop Tutu, that the terrible system of oppression against which they struggled in South Africa is very much alive and flourishing
Tuesday, November 19, 2013Cutting The Middle East's Gordian Knot: Why Israel Cannot Survive In Its Present Form Some Israelis are fond of comparing Israel's displacement of Palestinians to the historical experience of North Americans in displacing indigenous people, but the comparison is inaccurate on almost every level.
Saturday, November 16, 2013A Vast Wasteland Of Effort Spent: America's Rampage Through the Middle East I read that six thousand people have been killed by sectarian violence so far this year in Iraq, surely a good rough measure of what America's invasion achieved there.
Monday, October 21, 2013What America Has Become What America has become since its founding. How an aristocracy grows up inside an ostensibly democratic state.
