Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Priciest US weapon, the F-35, just attacked one of world’s most primitive fighters, the...

Why did the US military have a vertical-take-off F-35B launched from an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean make an attack on a Taliban position in Afghanistan?

A different war: For my father on Father’s Day

The shabbier and more senseless the war...the more hollow its objectives and justifications...the more one-sided our advantage...the more distorted the news from the front...the more random the casualties on all sides.

The top 10 inequality victories of 2022

Champions of a more egalitarian society made important strides, building the power of workers while reducing the power of wealthy tax dodgers and greedy pharma execs.

Compassion versus greed

Why do we permit investors to latch on to apartments and neither live in them nor put them up for rent?

The decline of the U.S. empire: Where is it taking as all?

Will China become the next global hegemon against heightened resistance from the United States, bringing the risk of nuclear war closer?

As US squanders $728.5 billion/ yr on Pentagon, China captures 65% of global EV...

The US Republican Party and their plus-one, Sen. Joe Manchin, are preventing the US from becoming the dominant automaker in the world in this decade by consistently shooting down the green energy and transportation provisions.

The USA’s systemic racism includes its wars

Hidden in plain sight is the fact that virtually all the people killed by U.S. firepower in the “war on terror” for more than two decades have been people of color.

Trump’s Estate Tax: An Aristocrat’s Gift to His Friends and Family

Trump won’t fight for the little guy. He’s only fighting for himself, and for the privileged boys and girls who are the only peer group he has ever cared about.

‘No Kings Day’ was historic. Now we need a powerful—and independent—movement against Trump

People can unite to lead so that leaders will follow, and justice can prevail.

Obama’s Ugly Show of Presidential Petulance

The President has "worked himself into such a tizzy over the TPP." While his progressive friends in Congress are questioning the secret trade agreement, Obama is lashing out at them in a pathetic show of presidential petulance.