The Social Consequences of Injustice
“A society cannot long exist without truth which is the bedrock of justice, it cannot long live a lie.”
Extorting Ukraine is bad enough
Recently a friend who follows the news a bit less obsessively than I do said, “I thought George W. Bush was bad,...
‘Wouldn’t have happened without our movement:’ Climate leaders celebrate as McConnell delays cynical Green...
"This wouldn't have happened if it weren't for the young Kentuckians who took an enormous risk to confront #OilMoneyMitch both in Kentucky and DC. When the youth lead, we win."
It’s not enough to elect progressives: Movements must have a role in governing
Our work must be about building long-term, multiracial, people-powered movements around a shared agenda for racial justice and a people’s economy.
Policing in America’s plutocracy
The White House wants to see local cops cracking down on poor people who break federal laws on immigration. Why not a crackdown on the rich who scoff at tax laws?
Notre Dame fire dramatizes the truly irreplaceable
If not cathedrals, what then are irreplaceable? Human life, above all, with animal and plant life close behind – and ideals and quests.
Spiffed-up & Combed-over, Trump’s Breakthrough — as Rich White Trash— Lets a Billionaire Hug...
Thus Trump campaigns like a redneck, white trash billionaire, even though that term defies logic, history and reason. But then his benighted audience, with nods to white supremacy, isn’t expert at logic, history or reason. Not getting truly educated, thus not able to keep themselves informed, elevates emotion over thinking, thus making them vulnerable to a hustler who does PT Barnum proud.
What is the Peace Dividend strategy?
Tell the truth about our endless wars and bloated DOD budgets!
Is America lurching from hard-to-govern to ungovernable – besieged by vengeful, federalist-hating oligarchs?
It’s now federalism (not the economy), stupid! The hard-right “revolution” IS being televised.
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.