Should fighting for democracy take priority over building powerful social movements?
Activists throughout history have put social movement work on hold for the electoral arena.
Terror and geopolitics: Manchester in 2017 and in 1996
Both Manchester bombings were reactions against a history of colonial shaping of the lives of local people.
AOC and Bernie urge Senate to provide safer military cleanup for Puerto Rico
“After decades of bombing exercises by our military resulted in severe harm to Vieques, we owe it to our fellow U.S. citizens on the island to clean up after ourselves in a safe, responsible way.”
Texas loosens gun restrictions less than a day after a mass shooting in the...
"We are the only country that struggled with gun violence at this level. Other countries respond to tragedy."
Syria Truce Holds, Offering Hopes for Delivery of Humanitarian Aid
There was little sign of political compromise, however, which is a bad sign for the future.
How badly will today’s rip-roaring ‘transparency’ surge scar MAGA rampages, McCarthy, FOX and Trump?
If serial, truth-telling transparency doesn’t wreck Republicanism as a viable governing party, scaring electability, voters will only have themselves to blame.
Must climate change dinosaurs go extinct before getting started on serious eco-energy reforms?
The entire resource/energy problem is as simple to understand as it is hard to resolve.
DOJ Inspector General urges Congress to empower government watchdogs ahead of Trump era
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said Wednesday that Congress must get involved and implement new rules.
Understanding the North Korea threat
If the U.S. could deter a much stronger Soviet Union from taking an isolated West Berlin for three decades, it can deter North Korea.
China’s top grain producing province bans GM crops
Growing of GM corn, rice and soybean will be banned, while illegal production and sales of GM crops and supply of their seeds will also be prohibited.