Syria’s Aleppo falling: Moscow is a player in the region again
Russia’s success in shaping the outcome of the Syrian struggle has made Moscow a player in the region again for the first time since the fall of the old Soviet Union.
To Get America Moving, Tax Financial Transactions
A sales tax on speculators can deliver tangibles that people need but Wall Street says we can't afford as well as intangibles that our nation needs but Wall Street tries to ignore.
Clinton’s Heist of Democracy and the Voter-Driven Superdelegate and Platform Solution
We deserve to have processes and institutions perform their assigned role of promoting debate, and electoral integrity.
Saving Illinois: Getting more bang for the state’s bucks
Illinois is teetering on bankruptcy and other states are not far behind, largely due to unfunded pension liabilities; but there are solutions.
The Billionaire Bankrolling the Latest Trade Deal Push
A corporate-backed study says the latest Washington trade scam will raise incomes — but for whom?
‘Escalation dominance’. . . and the prospect of more than 1,000 Holocausts
Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.”
What the Narcissists Have Done to Our Jobs and Health
The narcissists in Congress are preoccupied with their own security rather than on the securing of a strong society.
If America doesn’t reverse its current course, we are headed for a national meltdown
We have to get all sides involved on the same page, talking to each other about how these crises can be brought to an end.
People power: Focus and unite
Focus and unite . . . the only sane and possible solution.
Why Bernie Will, Should and Must Stay in the Race
Bernie has substantively — even profoundly — changed American politics for the better.