Politics

And The Powers That Be wonder why an angry populist rebellion is spreading like a prairie fire.

If we continue in the direction we’re headed we’ll soon have a health insurance system dominated by two or three mammoth for-profit corporations capable of squeezing employees and consumers for all they’re worth – and handing over the profits to their shareholders and executives.

I offer this list not with a naive optimism that Obama will actually act on them, but rather to point out how many crucial issues a sitting Democratic president has the power to control but often chooses not to.

Marco Rubio is said to be somewhat moderate, but Robert Reich says differently. Here’s why...

“If the Republican Party continues to splinter and break up into factions because it can no longer function as a cohesive entity this would pave the way for the emergence of this 3d Party.”

In Washington’s drone wars, collateral damage comes home.

The candidate, seeking the Green Party nomination, is the only presidential hopeful who understands that what's important is not the election—it's the construction of anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist global movements. The building of these movements alone will save us.

“What we do have is we have perhaps the lowest, but among the lowest, but perhaps the lowest, mortality rate—death rate—anywhere in the world.”

“With another Trump presidency, the left would have few options and could face new levels of government repression.”

Most of those who consider themselves on the progressive left instinctively understand that they are in an ideological battle with two powerful forces.