CBS pulls report challenging Trump foreign policy
What’s behind the canceling of the 60 Minutes story on El Salvador?
The primary contradiction: Corporate power vs. Progressive populism
For plutocrats, this summer has gotten a bit scary. Two feared candidates are rising. Trusted candidates are underperforming. The 2020 presidential election...
Trump’s America: Open to global capital, not people
America didn’t become great by global capital seeking higher returns, but by people from all over world seeking better lives.
Take the Movement to the White House
Sanders is as offended as the great majority of people are that Washington is so totally in the pockets of moneyed elites. Someone finally has to rebel, and no one had stepped forward, so he did.
Into the Afghan abyss (again)
How a failed drug war will defeat Trump’s Afghan adventure
On Memorial Day, U.S. Troops Are at War With Islamic State Near Mosul
The line of the Obama administration had been that US troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria were only trainers and advisors. But US forces have exceeded that role.
China’s Xi Jinping and France’s Emmanuel Macron talk climate
I know which leader is a more positive force in international affairs, by far (domestic policies and press are a different issue, though I don’t trust Trump on those, either.)
Friday’s Events: The Legacy and Rules of American Foreign Policy and 21 Questions for...
The United States is great at focusing on any sort of carnage and blaming ISIS, one of hundreds of groups in Syria, and building alliances with Sunni states.
One-time 99% tax on billionaires’ pandemic profits could fund vaccines for the entire world
“The obscene levels of wealth gained from the pandemic by a handful of mega rich individuals should immediately be taxed at 99%―enough to fully vaccinate everyone on Earth and help millions of workers.”
Sanders leads Senate demand for $1,200 stimulus checks over ‘get-out-of-jail free card’ for corporations
"Please join us in demanding that any new Covid relief proposal includes a $1,200 direct payment to adults and $500 to their children."