Friday, April 17, 2026

Tag: culture

On this Earth Day, demand freedom for Siwatu-Salama Ra

The growing #FreeSiwatu movement is working to prevent this gross miscarriage of justice.

Class dismissed

Class conflict in Red State America.

Learning from DeMarco

"She was mighty fine."

Don’t just resist. Return to who you are

"The idea of Indigenous resurgence is resonating with young people."

Living in an age of desire and anxiety

What is causing this epidemic?

White allies, let’s be honest about decolonization

Nobody can claim to be an ally if their agenda is to prevent their own future dystopias through actions that also preserve today’s Indigenous dystopias.

Why does ‘heaven’ want to destroy us? Meditation on the biggest...

Who knew our species’ brainpower could conceive in advance, and with tragic specificity, the looming, incremental, not so Little Bang that awaits us?

5 Indigenous women asserting the modern matriarchy

They are reclaiming the tradition of female leadership and turning the old, white, male-dominated perspective of history on its head.

The oligarchs’ ‘guaranteed basic income’ scam

The longer the elites keep us in darkness with their ideological tricks and empty moralism, the longer we refuse to mobilize to break their grip on power, the worse it will get.

New York City councilman proposes bill to help employees disconnect from...

The right to unplug would help employees draw clear lines and set boundaries in their personal lives.

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The deaf, dumb and blind cult still dazzled by the nastiest, most naked ‘emperor’...

How mortifying: one crude, ham-fisted con artist, swelled by arrogance, ignorance, and stupidity, is all it took to topple this “naked” beacon of democracy. Figure even worse with a Putin in charge.

What you should know about lead contamination in Omaha, Nebraska

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the city of Omaha have spent decades trying to clean it up.

Democracy depends on broad-based taxation—history is clear about that

When governments depend on internal taxation, bargaining is required. Taxes are not simply extracted; they are negotiated, enforced, justified, and institutionalized.

The Trump/Newsom nuke war against renewables gets a Diablo push

Together Trump and Newsom are pushing nuclear power plants whose drastic deregulation may now rival the dangers posed by any bombs Iran could produce.

How many people have the US and Israel killed in Iran?

Why the real numbers of people killed are almost certainly much higher and why this matters with the conflicting estimates of the death toll in occupied Iraq 20 years ago.