Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky: How the US became an oligarchy that makes war...
Chris Hedges talks with Noam Chomsky on the state of affairs in America and hope for the future.
The huge tax heist
The moneyed interests who run the GOP depend on the Trump bomb to divert attention from their huge heist.
A terrible precedent: The assassination of Qassam Soleimani
The assassination of a popular leader like Soleimani and the lack of evidence presented about imminent plots he was supposedly engaged in, may empower other countries to take similar actions in the future, a slippery slope indeed.
The Silicon Valley Bank bailout: The purpose of government is to make the rich...
As this bailout should make clear is that, contrary to what the media tell us, conservatives love big government.
How the President Can Curb Big Pharma Greed
Rep. Pocan’s letter urges President Obama to “use executive action and take concrete steps” to address the drug cost crisis, and lists three tools that the president can use.
Will the Freedom Flotilla sail to Gaza?
Hundreds of international activists wait to set sail from Istanbul to Gaza with 5,500 tons of desperately needed humanitarian aid.
Waging class war in comfort
Do the corporate chiefs now parading into the new Trump administration see the United States as just another enterprise – to fleece?
Obama, deporter in chief, should pardon the undocumented
Noam Chomsky says Obama “should proceed to what is in fact an urgent necessity: to grant a general pardon to 11 million people who are living and working here, productive citizens in all but name.”
The Indivisible Unity Pledge and the Democratic Party progressives
Bernie has just taken the Indivisible Unity Pledge – meaning that he will back the Democratic nominee regardless of the DNC moves to eliminate progressives from the race.
Solidarity over sanctions
By not responding to the global health crisis in a humane way, the American foreign policy establishment and many of its allies are eroding the country’s soft power and risk having much less influence over world affairs when it passes.