Thou Shalt Not Kill
The U.S. military machine has committed egregious war crimes and serves not to democracy or freedom, but corporate profit. We should think before we bow to glorious violence and war.
50 years later, a speech by King has lessons for a president
Difficult work remains for those in whom Martin Luther King Jr. had the most hope: the people, organizing grass-roots power for peace.
On Israel, Sanders Is Right (And Clinton Knows It)
"With these words Bernie made a bit of history, and earned a lot of respect."
Our Mania for Hope Is a Curse
“Humanity is never stationary." And it's only those who accept the very real possibility of dystopia that are the likely ones to carry out the self-sacrifice necessary for revolt.
VIDEO: Why We Must End Upward Pre-Distributions to the Rich
Political competition is no longer between Republicans and Democrats—it's between the 99 percent and the economic elite who influence the rules by which the economy runs. Let's stop the pre-distribution upward.
Three reasons why the super-rich should embrace a 70% tax rate
If they really want to "improve the state of the world," they should be using all their lobbyists and lawyers to make sure their tax money is supporting a cooperative national effort to protect the environment for their great-grandchildren and to remain competitive in the technologies of the future.
The Death of the Republican Party
It seems the Republican Party has officially died in 2016. What’s left is a lifeless shell, with the Grand Old Party no longer inside.
Anti-abortionists played the long game, and they are winning
The U.S. is sliding toward a grim future where abortion is criminalized with little support for families. This “new normal” is disproportionately impacting low-income people of color.
The world is uniting for international law, against US empire
“We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures.“
20 Year Old Class Action Lawsuit on Radioactive Contamination Finally Moving Forward
BNL was designated a high-pollution Superfund site in 1989. The large amounts of radioactive tritiumH30 or radioactive water were found to have been leaking from BNL’s High Flux Beam Reactor in 1997.






