Friday, February 13, 2026

A no-win dilemma for US peace voters

Neither of the only two candidates who can win, Trump or Harris, offers any real hope for a peaceful future.

Not as simple as 1, 2, 3: Humanity has a surprisingly diverse understanding of...

Language plays an important role in understanding the concept of numbers.

Will MAGA Trumpism induce dire structural changes –  or dead-end as a trashy, corrupt flash...

What if the elected felon managed to kick off two or three generations of Trump-style insurrections? So much for the sacred rule of law, honest elections, justice by fair trials, and noble traditions of civil rights.

Declawed special prosecutor: A mockery of independence and justice

Here's today's predictable nightmare when legislation imprisoned the Special Prosecution role under the Dept. of Justice. Or more accurately, in Trumpian times the slavish Dept. of Injustice and Coverup.

This climate strike is part of the disruption we need

Business, as usual, is what’s doing us in. We live on a planet that finds itself rather suddenly in...

Trump’s most catastrophic error: Running every election as if a wingnut GOP primary

That Trump cannot shift tactics (indeed worsen as desperation grows) against a different foe in different times will do him in.

The persecution of Steven Donziger

“Why am I the one being locked up? I helped hold [Chevron] accountable.”

Blowback for the twenty-first century

Remembering Chalmers Johnson.

Genocide made invisible

A bilateral policy of genocide has united the Israeli and U.S. governments in a pact of literally breath-taking cruelty.

How the rich and their right-wing cronies plot to break working people

They’re plotting to hijack democracy and put working people under the feet of CEOs, the ultra-wealthy, and other Republican fanatics.