High Corruption: Hillary Clinton Does the Hindu Kush
The Queen of Chaos has been roundly criticized for her bellicose involvement as Secretary of State in Iraq, Libya, Honduras and elsewhere, generally taking “very little action to bring about peace.”
Why Trump must make Putin smile
Whose interest is served by all this clownish chaos?
Crime Can Pay if It’s Big Enough
For banksters like Goldman Sachs, federal criminal settlements are just a cost of doing business.
Trump can’t blockade love: Why I’m going to Cuba
And there are millions around the world who love the Cuban people—a people who have fought capitalism, imperialism, Apartheid, and Zionism. A people who are always the first to offer aid and solidarity.
How corporations crush the working class
The resulting power imbalance has spawned near-record inequalities of income and wealth, corruption of democracy by big money, and the abandonment of the working class.
Israel is committing an epic war crime with US backing and arms
Where is the U.S. peace movement and the U.S. public outrage?
Trade denialism continues: Trade really did kill manufacturing jobs
This level of dishonesty separates trade out from most other areas of public debate.
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.
In the New Gilded Age, Social Protest Dominates Academy Awards Ceremony
Oscar winners at the 87th Academy Awards took advantage of their stage time by making statements on behalf of minorities and the discriminated-against. It's being hailed the most politically progressive Oscars ever.
Where Is Climate Change In The Debates?
Climate change is real, and it is worsening. That it should play a central role in the U.S. elections is undebatable.