Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Trump’s Korean shell game

The U.S. and North Korean leaders are both playing a long con designed to maintain their own short-term political survival.

Trump’s most catastrophic error: Running every election as if a wingnut GOP primary

That Trump cannot shift tactics (indeed worsen as desperation grows) against a different foe in different times will do him in.

Sanders slams Republican Senate for happily approving $740 billion for pentagon while doing ‘nothing’...

“Instead of more austerity for the working class of this country, we need to impose austerity on the billionaire class and on Wall Street.”

Chris Hedges discusses resistance in the Age of Trump with Kevin Zeese

“It’s all about building power. That has to be our goal: to build power, to take office, and to create a movement that can’t be ignored.”

Don’t impeach Trump. Annul his presidency

My betting is Trump remains president at least through 2020 – absent compelling and indisputable evidence he rigged the 2016 election.

The revolution in work calls for an evolution in living

This is not an unattainable utopian vision. It is the realistic picture of a world in which humanity responds creatively and pragmatically to the changes that technology presents us with.

Will the Democrats catch a “blue wave?”

It looks like a significant Democratic victory in November – often referred to by commentators as a “blue wave” – is likely. But will they become more committed to challenging the Trump agenda?

How the left is using tea party tactics to take on both the GOP...

It’s a way to take back state power for progressives, and turn the Democrats into a party capable of beating Trump’s agenda.

A new way to equal pay for all women

There are a number of reasons for the pay gap that don’t have anything to do with qualifications or education.

Happy 2016! These CEOs Have Already Banked An Average Worker’s Salary

Country's 100 top-paid executives took home an average of $8.96 million in 2014