Friday, July 4, 2025

Tag: politics

Hillary Finally Spoke Up About Inequality—20 Years Ago

Hillary Clinton was prescient in addressing the harms of an increasingly unfair economy just as she was 20 years ago, when President Clinton was running for re-election and wrote against the odds, "It Takes A Village." Is she really a progressive?

TPP Is Not a Trade Fight—It’s a Fight for Democracy

The more we know about the Trans-Pacific Partnership the more we see what a raw deal it is for your democratic rights. It's time for a comprehensive movement to restore a forward-looking people's politics.

Dennis Hastert, Nancy Pelosi and America’s ‘Family Values’

While Liberals and Conservatives both "care about families and children," Liberals' humane policies do more to help families over the "selfish and self-righteous approach of the Republican right." Where's America's family values?

Anticipatory Bribery

It's about time the people that run for office feel the burden of revealing payments based on their economic worth, not anticipated political clout. Have we entered a future of anticipatory bribery?

VIDEO: 'These Are War Crimes:' Shocking Details Emerge of US Resident...

Details of Majid Khan's, the only known legal resident of the U.S. to be held at Guantánamo, torture provides new insight on the abuse by the CIA. The declassified information is both abusive and sick in nature.

Washington Asks, ‘Who Lost Ramadi?’ But Washington Never Had Ramadi

Why do Republicans think that if the U.S. occupied Iraq for longer, Ramadi would have somehow become a U.S. protectorate? The whole debate over “who lost Ramadi” is no debate because Washington never had Ramadi.

Hawaii Goes Green and Other Big Renewables Stories

The Hawaii legislature just passed a goal to go 100 percent renewable energy throughout the state by 2045. The new solar installations are making even developing countries ambitious enough to go green.

Did Jeb Bush Just Commit a War Crime in Justifying the...

Jeb Bush routinely speaks in a fascist manner about launching an attack on Iran. But with there being no trial for anyone guilty of war crimes or crimes against humanity in the Bush administration, does this mean that the lawless and fascistic tradition will continue?

Court Rules NSA Bulk Spying Illegal: New Vindication for Snowden, and...

The NSA’s collection of millions of U.S. citizens’ phone records is now illegal for them to possess. This ruling comes at a time when the Patriot Act is soon up for renewal.

The Uncivil War Raging Across America

The current way government is running and the power the corporate elite have in politics has deterred the average American citizen from taking pride in one's country. An uncivil war is what has occurred here and it is time to make a change.

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What July 5th taught me that July 4th never did

Real freedom doesn’t come wrapped in patriotic speeches or military parades, it comes through struggle, sacrifice, and the refusal to bow to empire, no matter what form it takes.

Ireland becomes sixth European country to end use of coal ahead of schedule

Ireland became the sixth country in Europe to end its use of coal with an additional 23 European countries committing to a cleaner energy future.

U of Florida Law School: Where racism and originalism converge

Preston Damsky, a law-school prize for an essay written for the judge's seminar, argued that the Constitution was originally intended only for white people and therefore even today non-whites could not claim their Constitutional rights and privileges.

Ugliest of ugly Americans, desperate for face-saving charades, exports chaotic, boorish pestilence abroad

Stuntery, like putz-ery, is readily undone and when it flops, it turns against itself.

Trump-Musk foreign aid cuts could cause 14 million deaths by 2030, study warns

Researchers say slashing 83 percent of USAID programs threatens to erase two decades of global health gains, with children under five accounting for one-third of projected fatalities.