Wednesday, August 13, 2025

7 not-so-subtle messages Congress is sending with its tax plans

The two tax bills define what’s important to a society. Or more to the point, who’s not important.

Faces of pain, faces of hope

The message of the consumer society, pumped out over flat screen televisions, computers and smartphones, to those trapped at the bottom of society is loud and unrelenting: You are a failure.

The emperor’s new rules

What rules could possibly legitimize the kind of destruction we just witnessed in Gaza, and who would want to live in a world ruled by them?

Louisiana cop sentenced to prison after beating unarmed man on video

“Officers who deprive individuals of their civil rights will not be tolerated.”

2021: Half of America facing poverty

For the great majority of Americans without a share of the stock market, and for those who can't work from home, the pandemic is adding the prospect of a financial collapse to all their other concerns.
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America’s next president: Warren Sanders

President Warren Sanders can then start clearing the wreckage left by Trump, and make America decent again.

The speech that Biden should give: ‘I’ve changed my mind’

Will an announcement that President Biden will not seek or accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2024 be made?

Some early lessons from the war in Ukraine

"We will not give up, and we will not lose. We will fight till the end — at sea, in the air, we will continue fighting for our land whatever the cost. We will fight in the forests, in the fields, on the shores, in the streets."

Conformist media outlets hide realities of power. Noam Chomsky has exposed them.

For many decades, the core of corporate greed and militarism has remained basically the same. So has the core of Chomsky’s message.

November 6, 2018; the mother of all elections will take place in America

America has now arrived at this most critical crossroads and its people must choose the fork in the road that leads to turning this government around.