Visions for the future
We are revolutionary. We recognize that our job is to make the impossible inevitable.
‘We Are Writing the Rules,’ Says Obama. Who’s ‘We’?
President Obama is using a sales pitch to get the public and Congress to "swallow the glob of global corporate greed known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership." But why is he acting for these self-serving corporate powers?
Disposable Children
Wealthy Americans are justifying the neglect of our nation's children by blaming the victims—children of the poor. In a perversely unequal nation, are children of all ages deemed disposable?
Imagine Something Different
“The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong,” President Obama assured us. From whose lives has the shadow of crisis passed? And for whom is this Union strong?
Wall Street Banks on Buying the Democrats’ Love
Big money is threatening the Democratic party by saying that major campaign donations are dependent on “a friendlier attitude toward the banks.” This just shows what little respect banks actually have.
In Whose America?
Tom Engelhardt reflects on the state of America: machine Guns, MRAPs, surveillance, drones, permanent war and a permanent election campaign. Don’t be shocked—we, the people, are less in control of anything.
Is U.S. climate policy killing capitalism?
It’s the Koch Brothers and the rest of Big Oil, and Big Gas, and Big Coal.
The resistance to health care repeal rolls on
The effort to kill Obamacare is not complete. Expect vigorous protests throughout August.
Trump’s Civil War
Let’s pray the leveler heads in our society prevent the civil war Trump and Bannon want to instigate in America.
The great flood
The damage suffered by Houston, Tampa and Miami is not an anomaly. It is the beginning of the end.