Sunday, April 5, 2026

Who’s enabling Putin’s enablers?

We need a progressive politics that shows solidarity with all victims of military violence — while resisting the militarism of our own government.

What the tawdry stunt to rename the Gulf of Mexico exposes about appalling, arrogant...

Behold imperial bellowing, another classic MAGA “bargain” that costs millions and lowers our prestige.

The 1967 mobilization against the war in Vietnam: Confrontation at the Pentagon

Hopefully we can all learn something useful for today by looking back at this crucial event through the eyes of someone whose worldview was shaped by his participation in it.

Make Trump Great Again!

Toddlers have so much to teach Donald Trump as a person and as a presidential candidate.
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Terror and geopolitics: Manchester in 2017 and in 1996

Both Manchester bombings were reactions against a history of colonial shaping of the lives of local people.
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For the first time, a U.S. president backs a fascist France

How many Americans died to prevent a fascist take-over here and to end the Vichy in France itself.

Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails

The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.

The Flight 93 doctrine

Donald Trump’s kamikaze attack on globalism.

Koch brothers pledge to spend $400 million on midterm elections

The annual winter donor conference the Koch brothers recently held was the biggest they have ever had with 550 attendees.