Tax on global mega-rich could help lift 2.3 billion out of poverty
"During 2021, we witnessed the epidemic of Covid-19 and wealth-hiding, and it's time to reverse course."
Ominous history in real time: Where we are now in the USA
This article is adapted from the new edition of Norman Solomon’s book “Made Love, Got War,” just published as a free e-book.
How Joe Manchin betrayed America’s working families
Ed Barnette long ago realized that affordable child care and paid sick leave, among other resources, would be essential to helping West...
How much crass irrationality can self-government stand? Can community wisdom offset howls for mob...
Trump-proof elections – with energized agendas, expanded voting, critical thinking and compassion
Like delivery companies, food production, and all...
Eurasia’s ring of fire
Throughout 2021, Americans were absorbed in arguments over mask mandates, school closings, and the meaning of the January 6th attack on the...
Bin Laden and Trump: Two bookends to America’s imperial decline
The U.S. now is a very sick empire, faced abroad by powerful challenges to its hegemony, eroded by economic stagnation, shorn of ideological legitimacy, and torn apart internally by a civil war in all but name.
Some Florida and Arizona Republicans show how to counter 2020 election lies
Developments in two swing states showcase how election records can be used to debunk disinformation and provide more transparency of vote counts.
Best nations really are the brightest. Solution: Close the reason gap
America's pushing dumb and dumber, while dumbing down the next generation.
With billions in fines, US Chamber of Commerce’s ranks are ‘packed with rogues’
A new report catalogues 15,896 federal and state violations from more than 100 U.S. Chamber of Commerce members, including major fossil fuel companies.
Capitalism and the profit-motive didn’t create the James Webb space telescope
Maybe what it will take for brainwashed U.S. citizens to wake up to the fact that we’re all being lied to about the marvels of capitalism will be for the “socialist” Webb telescope to discover an advanced socialist-type society thriving on some distant planet.