Friday, March 20, 2026

We Should All Start ‘Taking Responsibility’ for our Transgressions

Stumpf stood up and said he "takes responsibility" for what happened at Wells Fargo. And now he gets to go on running a banking operation that is little more than a criminal syndicate.

Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool

Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.

The Trump doctrine

The Trump Doctrine began to emerge when Trump issued his travel bans (both the first and second) on predominantly Muslim countries.

The Bane of Anti-readers, thus anti-thinkers in America: Busted billionaires prove book learning a...

If you know nothing, you will believe anything – and you will be suckered to do anything.

The pandora’s box of war

None of the insurgents in the region will willingly lay down their weapons until the U.S. occupation of the Middle East ends.

The war in Ukraine, diplomacy and the progressive left

Solidarity across borders could allow us to work together to find solutions to the problems we face in common like hunger in our own countries and the global south and the existential risk of climate change.

Media attacked, journalists murdered: Democracy eroded

Social justice and freedom in all its forms, including media freedom, are at the core of the fight.

Next up: The pretend president in exile—Trump’s survival scam against defeat and dishonor

Behold! Our new normal is having two presidents, a weathered veteran and a self-anointed, undisciplined pretender.

Want true, wrenching, life-altering ‘grievances?’ Don’t look to right-wing base complaints

What social, ethnic, class or work group doesn’t have far more cause to feel disrespected, mistreated or exploited than Trump whiners?

Only nonviolent resistance will destroy corporate state

While refusing to be baited into violent confrontations with the radical right, we must also be vigorous in using militant, nonviolent tactics to block hate speech.