Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Voices for Change

Forests thrive when Indigenous people have legal stewardship of their land

The fate of intact forests is closely linked to that of Indigenous peoples.

Activists in Philly have a novel approach to help de-oppress society

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s AORTA helps organizations restructure for greater equity.

Sisyphus Trump maniacally replays 2015, with repeated, inflammatory media blitzes. But that gambit...

How many unforced errors—the Arlington cemetery mess, JD Vance, fake Ohio pet-napping and Loomer—confirm Trump as monumental scatterbrain?

Can the world save Palestine from US-Israeli genocide?

The UN General Assembly's scheduled meeting is an opportunity for the world community to clearly express its opposition to Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine.

Harris can’t embrace billionaires if she wants to win

Billionaires are busy pressuring political candidates to keep their taxes unjustly low. Their opinions shouldn’t—and don’t—matter.

Why the media’s ‘sanewashing’ of Trump is uniquely dangerous

In their attempts to normalize an obviously abnormal candidate, major media outlets risk shirking their responsibility to do the most fundamental job of the free press at their own peril: To tell the truth.

Trump, the felon, has been making a complete fool out of the US court...

The political destruction of Trump who, as a candidate for president is the greatest insult to our democracy and our Constitution and to the U.S. court system that has constantly bent to him and given him one free pass after another.

Undebatable: What Harris and Trump could not say about Israel and Gaza

Silence is a blanket that smothers genuine democratic discourse and the outcries of moral voices. Making those voices inaudible is a key goal for the functioning of the warfare state.

What’s Trump’s escape valve when (or if) he realizes he’s losing? Bluster ...

There could be greater disruption than Jan. 6, but the enormous, co-ordinated might of law and order won’t get ambushed again.
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60 years after Lyndon Johnson’s ‘daisy ad,’ the silence on nuclear war is dangerous

Today, a campaign ad akin to the daisy spot is hard to imagine from the Democratic or Republican nominee to be commander in chief, who seem content to bypass the subject of nuclear-war dangers.

The decline of the U.S. empire: Where is it taking as all?

Will China become the next global hegemon against heightened resistance from the United States, bringing the risk of nuclear war closer?

The ‘weavings’ of a wacko: The fakery of grinding Trump hokum into brilliance

“I never ramble, I only ‘weave,’”/ Thus doubling down ways to deceive.

Knowledge is power. Gaza war supporters don’t want students to have both.

Silence is complicity, and that’s the way Israel’s allies like it. For them, the new academic term restarts a threat to the status quo.

Who wants to kill and die for the American Empire?

The U.S. policy of proxy war, relying on allies to do the killing and dying in order to avoid domestic political blow back over U.S. casualties, has led us to the brink of war with Russia and Iran.

How badly is Trump blowing his chances—defaulting to prudent, energetic Harris, looking far more...

Other than breaking the law and getting convicted since losing the 2020 race, what has Trump done to expand his centrist voting base?

Trump’s worst braggadocio: Rote, conniving predictions doomed not to warp the future! 

Is blatant trash talk not desperate swill/ From Convict-in-chief and right-wing shill?

In CNN interview, Harris dodged Gaza genocide and damaged her election prospects

During her CNN interview Thursday night, Harris remained in lockstep with President Biden’s unconditional arming of Israel.
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Why are Liberal Zionists cheering as Harris Echoes Biden on Gaza?

Key to Harris’ brief discussion of Gaza in her acceptance speech was the customary refusal in American political discourse to attribute the slaughter to the U.S. or its Israeli partner.

This election hangs on how many voters get the two, conflicted blueprints for Americanism

When, at least since 1861, have we ever faced such a relentless, internally-driven threat that impedes our idealistic push towards a more perfect union?

Why poverty reduction under capitalism is a myth

Capitalists and their biggest fans have long argued that the system is an engine of wealth creation.