Friday, August 28, 2026

Following the foreign-policy money trail in Washington

How Middle Eastern powers fund think tanks.

World leaders’ lack of urgency to fight climate crisis hangs over UN General Assembly

“Climate change ignores power politics. It doesn’t care how many armies you have, how many weapons you have… We saw in the pandemic when we don’t organize collectively how damaging it is. Climate is just much worse.”

Giving a voice to the real targets of crime vs. silencing and demonizing immigrants

Human rights are critical. But they are being used to target and exploit minorities in a power grab, while ignoring the real facts.

The public banking revolution is upon us

A century after the very successful Bank of North Dakota proved the model, the time has finally come to apply it across the country.

Record corporate profits, record stock buybacks, and the plan to tax them

As corporations blow record sums repurchasing their stock to inflate CEO pay, Congress is advancing a tax aimed at curbing this harmful practice.

Judicial capture series. The Roe decision.

How did this single pending decision pose a direct threat to judicial review itself?

Has the Trump stunt lasted long enough?

Waiting for 2020 is no longer a moral, functional or rational option.

Nancy Pelosi Could Get Us All Killed

“A single spark could ignite this combustible situation into a crisis that escalates to military conflict. Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan could provide it.”

Sanders rallies the 99 percent in New Hampshire

“We are taking on the incredible power of Wall Street, the drug companies, the insurance companies, fossil fuel, the prison industrial complex, the military-industrial complex. That is unbelievable power.”

The Better Business Bureau Downgraded Wells Fargo. It’s Not Enough.

Americans won’t be safe until all fraudulently-inclined institutions are discredited and their leaders are replaced.