Politics

For more than a decade and a half, Monsanto has extracted illegal royalties from Indian farmers, trapping them in debt and triggering an epidemic of farmers' suicides.

The remainder of the presidential campaign will be characterized by an attempt among liberals to discredit third-party and popular movements. Yet our only hope for change will come by breaking free from the tyranny of the two corporate parties.

As Trump feuds with CNN, NBC is elevating voices that are accommodating Trump.

“The public must be able to trust the officials who are put in charge of government funds. Anyone who violates that trust will be brought to justice."

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.

To really help the poorest countries, we need to do less: less military, less debt, and less corporate farming.

A travel warning was issued by the Bahamas about police violence occurring in the United States.

The Republican House speaker is out to steal away Americans’ hard-earned retirement benefits.

“Something transformative could potentially happen in our political system, in which the fading of a presidential campaign gives birth to a political force that could have far more impact than a single presidency. this will be worth watching.”

“Thank you to Senator Sinema for the introduction of legislation to protect one of the country’s greatest treasures, the Grand Canyon.”