Thousands in Baghdad Protest Lack of Electricity and Services, Demand End of Corruption (Video)
Thousands gathered in the sweltering heat in downtown Baghdad’s Liberation Square protesting against corruption and lack of electricity—a political crisis underlining the dangers of fossil fuels.
The backlash against the bullies
The revolt against Trump is a backlash against bullying in all its forms.
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 Fed’s inflation mistake continues
Most of the pain is borne by people who are already struggling to keep up with rising prices: lower-wage workers and the poor.
More than just talk: How American progressives are working for change
History teaches that progress takes time, those standing on the sidelines making unrealistic demands and criticizing those doing the work are only slowing it down.
Morbid inequality: Now just SIX men have as much wealth as half the world’s...
As inequality ravages the American and world economies, denial grows right along with it.
The most outrageous Trump scam – that he ‘loves America,’ fosters greatness and serves...
In the end MAGA will be the greatest fraud of all, instead getting renamed by historians MTGA, Make Trump Great Again.
A civilization in collapse, the dawn of a new order
The millions of people, young and old, who have been taking to the streets expressing their collective will have made their choice...
The Money Primary
Running for America's highest office in our democratic republic has been perverted into a gold rush. The donors and political sycophants involved in this obscene corruption of the system are playing with dynamite.
Suicide is never painless—yet right-wing implosions bring positive changes
The dread now transcends democracy,/ But what survives kakistocracy?