Where on earth is Europe heading?
Europe is being pulled in several different directions, but generally not to the left.
Just desserts: MAGA suicide pact climaxes its cult of destruction
The more bizarre the MAGA fable,/ The more desperate to finagle. Can hypocrites throttling the Bible/ Not make its movement suicidal?
Iran’s 10-point plan is still a workable basis for negotiations
There is a simple way to avoid one of the most destructive elements in recent failed negotiations with Iran
The Iran war as a threshold
The old structures are not simply failing; they are being surpassed by a deeper aspiration emerging from people themselves.
The axis of evil suffers a big loss
After Viktor Orban's landslide loss in Hungary, will Trump and even Putin be next in line for their political comeuppance?
Big oil cashes in as Trump’s Iran war drives $30 million per hour windfall...
Analysis shows fossil fuel giants capturing massive gains as oil prices surge during conflict, intensifying scrutiny over war-driven economic impacts.
The winner at the DNC’s latest meeting? Israel, ethnic cleansing and genocide
Why did pro-Israel groups voice so much pleasure and praise—not only for the sidelining of pro-human-rights resolutions but also for the process that sidelined them?
Democracy depends on broad-based taxation—history is clear about that
When governments depend on internal taxation, bargaining is required. Taxes are not simply extracted; they are negotiated, enforced, justified, and institutionalized.
The Trump/Newsom nuke war against renewables gets a Diablo push
Together Trump and Newsom are pushing nuclear power plants whose drastic deregulation may now rival the dangers posed by any bombs Iran could produce.
The deaf, dumb and blind cult still dazzled by the nastiest, most naked ‘emperor’...
How mortifying: one crude, ham-fisted con artist, swelled by arrogance, ignorance, and stupidity, is all it took to topple this “naked” beacon of democracy. Figure even worse with a Putin in charge.