Thursday, March 19, 2026

The Left needs to be a movement, not a bunch of lobbyists

We need to focus on big demands and big issues that benefit all but the ruling elites and that will fundamentally change the way the country operates.

Obama should have repealed the 1917 Espionage Act in addition to commuting Manning’s sentence

Obama and Holder have bequeathed yet another tool of authoritarianism to the incoming Trumpian troglodytes.

The Number of U.S. Troops in Iraq Is Approaching 6,000

Likely, down the line the US will get pulled right back into Iraq, because it refuses to recognize the real power dynamics there at the level of policy rather than just of tactics.

Carly Fiorina Proves You Don’t Want a CEO for a President

Carly Fiorina personifies corporate greed and economic inequality claiming that “running government like a business” would be a positive. Who actually thinks she belongs in the White House?

Climate change, extreme weather, destructive lifestyles

If we continue in the selfish, greedy, divisive ways of the past, the weather patterns will become more extreme and unpredictable, the air and waterways will become more toxic, loss of life will increase and the associated environmental ills will deepen.

For corporate media, it’s ‘anybody but Sanders or Warren’

History is unfolding in real-time. It’s not a product on the media shelf, to be passively bought and consumed.

Pennsylvania’s Prison System is Torturing Mumia Abu-Jamal and his Family Too

Abu-Jamal’s current health crisis clearly illustrates this national atrocity. His situation is also clearly unconstitutional, as leaving an inmate untreated, including for a disease like diabetes, has been declared by the US Supreme Court to be "cruel and unusual punishment."

National improved Medicare for All making progress

When the opposition steals your language to confuse and misdirect, we know we are winning.

The next wars are always here

Because the next wars were always here, looming. We just need the clarity to see them and the force to stop them before they begin.

Britain’s homeless crisis

This ideologically rooted approach to life is at the heart of many if not all of our problems.