Voices for Change

"To paraphrase philosopher George Santayana, those who cannot remember they were screwed by Wall Street are condemned to be screwed again."

It’s even more evidence that America badly needs a president who can keep his head on straight.

Trump isn’t and was never a smart businessman. He was and is smart at gaming the system. There’s a difference.

So many tax dollars have been spent on the further militarization of the country. We no longer have the slightest idea what life might be like if, instead of 17 significant intelligence outfits, we had just two of them, or even one.

It appears that, once again, the Establishment is the clear winner.

Chris Hedges talks with Noam Chomsky on the state of affairs in America and hope for the future.

The homeless are feared by the upper classes, and they're often arrested for nonexistent or non-violent infractions, in good part because they are simply considered "offensive" to people of means.

Members of Congress, comfortably nestled in bed with millionaire friends and corporate lobbyists, are in denial about the true state of the American middle class.

Our system of inverted totalitarianism has within it the seeds of an overt or classical fascism.

Fortunately, there are those -- who receive very little high-profile media ink -- that challenge the purpose and priorities of our twinned economic and physical wars. But they deserve allies in media – who don’t just seek to promote the lesser evil – but a world worthy of our humanity and of our potential.