Monday, July 14, 2025

Clinton Must Go Bold – and Go Left – For VP

Hillary Clinton needs to show voters that she can make bold choices. She must embrace the populist moment and the electorate’s yearning for change if she is to fend off Trump’s insurgent challenge.

Flacks for the rich tell one philanthropy story, the numbers tell another

Our wealthiest give away only a fraction of what they could easily afford to give.

Laboratories of Democracy

Perhaps it's time to for the Democrats' strategic geniuses and the rest of us to pay a bit more attention to state rep/senate races.

How to keep ‘public’ and ‘service’ in our public postal service

These profiteers and plutocratic ideologues constantly put out propaganda, castigating the Postal Service as a massive, money-sucking, deteriorating, bureaucratic behemoth.

The Democratic establishment is freaking out about Bernie. It should calm down.

Instead of the Democratic establishment worrying that Sanders is unelectable, maybe it should worry that a so-called “moderate” Democrat might be nominated instead.

Trump can’t make America great again without immigrants

It is white nationalists, with their hatred of foreigners and xenophobia, who are endangering American competitiveness in the new century.

The US killer drone program stays afloat on the back of lies and Pentagon...

A wrongly targeted Afghan aid worker and his family are among the latest casualties.

Similar to Biden, NATO is aged and unfit for leadership 

NATO’s 75th anniversary is an opportune time to take stock of NATO’s outdated world view and violations of international law.

Trump’s worst braggadocio: Rote, conniving predictions doomed not to warp the future! 

Is blatant trash talk not desperate swill/ From Convict-in-chief and right-wing shill?

Conformist media outlets hide realities of power. Noam Chomsky has exposed them.

For many decades, the core of corporate greed and militarism has remained basically the same. So has the core of Chomsky’s message.