Friday, December 26, 2025

Bernie Sanders opens a new foreign-policy debate

The most popular politician in America has now taken on the failed establishment consensus on national security as well as establishment domestic policy.

Abuses of power in Trumpworld and Davos

Trump spoke at Davos – an impeached president addressing world economic leaders while being tried in the Senate.

Faces of pain, faces of hope

The message of the consumer society, pumped out over flat screen televisions, computers and smartphones, to those trapped at the bottom of society is loud and unrelenting: You are a failure.

Who owns Puerto Rico’s debt, exactly? We’ve tracked down 10 of the biggest vulture...

Financial firms are still fighting to get billions out of the bankrupt island as it tries to rebuild.

Biden proposal for fossil fuel leasing on public lands called ‘massive climate failure’

The center is among more than 500 groups that responded to the rule with a letter urging Biden to "rapidly phase down federal fossil fuel extraction and production on public lands" to near-zero by 2030.

DNC in disarray while the Sanders campaign gains momentum

The glaring subtext of all this is the now-frantic effort to find some candidate who can prevent Sanders from becoming the party’s nominee at the national convention in July.

Protest wave sweeps the nation: Illinois streets and Capitol Hill erupt in demands for...

Activists in Illinois and Washington D.C. stand in defiance, calling for an end to the siege on Gaza and urging U.S. officials to back a ceasefire.

Trump’s biggest test so far

If President-Elect Trump declines to take advantage of this “blatant” opportunity to change course in a constructive direction on U.S. foreign relations, then what realistic expectation can there be that he ever will do so?

Some progressives are in denial about Trump’s fascist momentum

“Fascist politics exchanges reality for the pronouncements of a single individual, or perhaps a political party.”

Bernie Sanders: The Democracy Now! interview

“It’s not about you. It’s about the future of this planet. It’s about your kids and your grandchildren. It is about American democracy. It is about some very fundamental issues. And nobody in this room or in this country has a right to say I give up.“