Saturday, August 29, 2026

Slow-motion authoritarianism

Forget about coups and martial law. The latest method of destroying democracy is through death by a thousand cuts.

The Top Nine Developments that Defined the Struggle between Democracy and Plutocracy in 2015

“Just as democracy and peace are mutually reinforcing, perpetual war and perpetual corruption are mutually reinforcing. The concentrated power involved in conducting war corrupts; corruption undermines democracy, the surest way to peace.”

Newsom’s radioactive hypocrisy on green energy

California Governor Gavin Newsom has been touting himself as the Great Green Environmental Anti-Trump.   But it’s an infuriating radioactive...

Trump-GOP giveaway to Big Pharma will hit taxpayers with $9 billion in higher drug...

The budget office said it now expects the provision of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act to cost $8.8 billion over the next 10 years.

How A Right-Wing Media Myth Made It Into Oral Arguments For A Case Challenging...

Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller is relying on a common right-wing media myth to justify medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion.

Dominion mistranslated

The “dominionists” are using a dubious translation of the Hebrew word yirdu.

The Quiet Revolution

In areas where things like fresh water and electricity that most North Americans take for granted are still luxuries a revolution quietly continues, providing some hope for the future.

The modern-day Civil War that has erupted in America

How and will this modern-day Civil War end?

What the Pentagon doesn’t want you to know about China

Deliberate lies about China to drum up justification for more U.S. war spending needs to be urgently addressed.