Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Eisenhower’s ghost haunts Biden’s foreign policy team
The most serious challenge facing President-elect Biden's foreign policy team, which is not a threat from a hostile country, but the corruption of U.S. policy by powerful corporate interests, is the "unwarranted influence" of the Military-Industrial Complex.
Biden must inspect America’s embrittled reactors
Biden must act to prevent what would constitute nuclear suicide in the United States.
Sedition caucus mimics Trump’s worst sin: Demolition of content—legal, moral, democratic or electoral
The party of primitive deplorables, thinking it too could play with fire, is facing an outraged majority. Too bad it took so long.
Most Americans are getting poorer. How “health care for the rich” is killing many...
The merciless attacks on low-income health care programs effectively condemn thousands of people to an early death.
The minute Trump leaves office, investigators must pounce
This highly dangerous, very emotionally unstable man, who has committed various crimes, must not be allowed to walk away from them and continue to be a threat to this country and its democracy.
How corporate media has put the American public in a state of Ukraine-Russia psychosis
“[p]sychosis is a condition that affects the way your brain processes information. It causes you to lose touch with reality. You might see, hear, or believe things that aren’t real.… It can be triggered by… extreme stress or trauma.”
Trump’s presidency, the demise of the major parties, and the need for a new...
It’s on all of us on the left, and in the rest of the Democratic base to pick up the pieces and to build a movement of resistance and a new political party of the left to fight for real progressive change and real democracy.
‘No Militarization of Space Act’ introduced in Congress
It is sponsored by five members of the House of Representatives led by Representative Jared Huffman called the U.S. Space Force “costly and unnecessary.”
The COIN doctrine comes to Portland?
The president has also promised to deploy similar militarized police to other cities, claiming that those run by Democrats are somehow in the thrall of the ‘radical left’, despite the latter being among the most strident critics of the former.