Sunday, August 23, 2026

The Mexicanization of the United States

The destruction caused by neoliberalism is global. The patterns of economic, social, cultural and political assault that Mexico has suffered are afflicting countries from Greece to the United States. Only a worldwide anti-capitalist resistance movement will save us.

Arms sales: What we know about bombs being dropped in our name

Arms sales, congressional procedure, and what American's must know about weapons that are sold by the United States in the context of Boeing's most recent arms sale to Israel.

Rethinking climate action: A new guideline for planetary health

A new framework for planetary health reveals that our Industrial Age mindset—not human needs—is the real driver of environmental collapse.

Reconsidering criminal punishment

We know that the prison system is expensive to maintain and not particularly effective. So what are other solutions to crime?

Pity the Children

If we continue to ignore the hunger, poverty and desperate families and communities of our young, we guarantee there will be a huge, violent population plagued by crime, drug addiction and high incarceration rates. If we save the children, we save society.

Truce in Lebanon: Can diplomacy rise from the ruins?

The truce in Lebanon and the evolving diplomacy that is reshaping the Middle East in response to the genocide in Gaza as the threat of a major regional war is ever growing.

Priceless teaching moments from the last five presidencies, especially today’s craziest, most corrosive

Character matters because that’s the best future predictor; career success matters because past is prologue; competence matters because gross negligence is catastrophic.

What the Pentagon doesn’t want you to know about China

Deliberate lies about China to drum up justification for more U.S. war spending needs to be urgently addressed.

Eight reasons why Marco Rubio would be a disastrous Secretary of State

The many reasons why Trump's nomination of Senator Marco Rubio to be Secretary of State is a disastrous choice for America and the world.

Demobilizing America

A nation made by war and a citizenry unmade by it.