Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters
It's time we continue the rumblings of rebellion that already frighten the corporate state because dismantling corporate power in community after community is perhaps our only chance of survival.
Reading obituaries
Murders in the age of Donald Trump.
The Iran war as a threshold
The old structures are not simply failing; they are being surpassed by a deeper aspiration emerging from people themselves.
#11. Why Medicare Isn’t the Problem: It’s the Solution
Conservatives continue to claim that Medicare is running out of money and must be pared back. Medicare actually isn't the problem. The actual problem lies with healthcare coverage expected to rise steeply.
Amnesty International: Protecting the ‘Human Rights’ of Johns, Pimps and Human Traffickers
Is the sickness of the modern culture the ability to exploit with impunity into a human right. Chris Hedges discusses Amnesty International's call to decriminalize prostitution.
The Whoredom of the Left
“Third World women are used in the developed world for domestic labor, the care of the old and the undisciplined sexuality of the men.” An expression of global capitalism, has the world entered “the industrialization of prostitution?”
With attack on Yemen, the US is shameless: ‘We make the rules, we break...
The United States government is the most powerful and dangerous outlaw nation in the world.
Kissing the Koch Ring
Corporate spending was bad in previous years, but wait until 2016 as it is set to corrupt the candidates and greatly diminish voter participation. This time around, the Koch machine will spend three times more than last year’s midterm elections.
Power and lies
We now have a president who lies through his teeth and two giant uncritical conveyors of those lies.
The Share-the-Scraps Economy
We are barreling toward a “share” economy where robots do everything predictably programmable in advance and human beings do all of the unpredictable tasks. This is the troubling reality of the new digitized economy.