Voices for Change

This is not the change you were promised.

"You don’t want to die in a matter of seconds because of cops.” This has fueled the Black Lives Matter movement across the country and has put the American Dream for our younger generations into better perspective.

The feeling that Obama’s administration was in many ways a continuation of rather than a break with Bush is one of the things impelling voters on both sides of the aisle to support mavericks. Here are what Juan Cole see as turning points in Obama’s gradual betrayal of hope and change.

Leaving military insularity, unit loyalty, and the pressure of combat aside, however, here are seven other factors I’ve witnessed, which combine to inhibit dissent within military circles.

How the IAEA director general provided diplomatic cover for the Israeli and U.S. war on Iran.

India’s economic and energy production model is not a threat to the world, but it is a threat to India itself, particularly its most marginalized people.

Suing Congress members who are complicit in genocide is a good step for exposing—and organizing against—the power of the warfare state.

Idiots and charlatans, the handmaidens of death, lure us into the abyss.

Likely, down the line the US will get pulled right back into Iraq, because it refuses to recognize the real power dynamics there at the level of policy rather than just of tactics.

When you give everyone a chunk of change, does it really change their lives and their communities?