You Can’t Trust the (Corporate) Press
From operation mockingbird to wars based on official lies, you can't trust the corporate press. Democracy will only flourish when "the press can decide whether to print what it knows.”
Protests across Britain against Johnson’s suspension of parliament
“We're fighting for democracy and for a society that works for the 99 percent, not the elites that Trump and Johnson serve.”
Record inequality and corporate profits are what media call a ‘strong economy’
What explains corporate media’s credulous reliance on uninformative economic measures, and contradictory references to a “strong economy,” alongside reports on a struggling working class?
Multiplying hatred and division: Humanity at war with itself
Humanity is at war, not just with rival groups or nations, but within relationships, with the planet and with ourselves.
CPAC goes to Hungary
CPAC Hungary shows that a kind of far right international is forming.
Revisiting Orwell’s ‘1984’ in Trump’s America
The new regime evokes past totalitarian states, both historical and fictional.
In the New Gilded Age, Social Protest Dominates Academy Awards Ceremony
Oscar winners at the 87th Academy Awards took advantage of their stage time by making statements on behalf of minorities and the discriminated-against. It's being hailed the most politically progressive Oscars ever.
Respect: A tribute to Aretha Franklin, an icon of the Civil Rights & Feminist...
Aretha Franklin has been celebrated as one of the greatest American singers of any genre, who helped give birth to soul and redefined the American musical tradition.
Graphic: Yes, the richest Americans really do pay less in taxes
"Will we tolerate it? Or will we take back our democracy from the oligarchs who run this country?"
Despite crackdowns, white supremacist and Neo-Nazi videos take stubborn toot on YouTube
The ideas in a treatise by Brenton Tarrant, the alleged gunman responsible for the massacres at two New Zealand mosques, are also circulating on many of the world’s most popular social media platforms.