Voices for Change

Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts; defense correspondent of The Nation magazine; and author.

In America’s wars, failure is the new success.

Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold says as President Sanders couldn’t get any of his ideas implemented anyway because Congress would reject them. But if Bernie Sanders is elected president, American politics will have been altered, reducing the moneyed interests’ chokehold over the public agenda.

South Carolina has voted to remove the Confederate Flag. But in a state riddled with injustice and racial difference, this is just the first step to what is going to be a long road.

That a shameless, dimwit outlaw like Trump can humiliate both state and federal justice confirms its own devastating “conviction" as failed legal systems.

While Democrats work at marginal political solutions, the radical right heads for the rocks, crying “full steam ahead.”

The level of denial is simply appalling. It appears increasingly unlikely that humanity will prove capable of confronting and addressing the self-destructive climate-change catastrophe that it has created.

Throughout time, every great social movement has been told that it was asking for too much.

Trump is embarking on an orgy of cruelty for absolutely no reason.

Financial and political elites have been rigging the system for the enrichment of the few and the impoverishment of the many. Don't be fooled, these thieves are stealing from all of us.