Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Four corrosive ‘bad myths’ batter America until unifying ‘good myths’ regain prominence

History depicts the battle between “bad myths” that divide, even destroy, vs the “good myths” that speak to the grandeur of the American experiment.

Who’s winning and losing the economic war over Ukraine?

The winners are the opportunists and war profiteers, and the losers are the people of Ukraine, working and poor people everywhere, but especially in the Global South, and our fading hopes of halting the climate crisis.

War in Ukraine and ICBMs: The untold story of how they could blow up...

With sky-high tensions between the world’s two nuclear superpowers, the chances of ICBMs starting a nuclear conflagration have increased as American and Russian forces face off in close proximity.

The lesson we need to teach our nation’s rich

We will not let your wealth come at the expense of our children’s future.

Comic relief from Mike Pence, as if delusion, deflection, and cowardice will redeem lost...

Pence looks more like the walking, even staggering dead, having now neutralized his one and only courageous Senate action.

How spin and lies fuel a bloody war of attrition in Ukraine 

U.S. officials and corporate media have buried the U.S. role in the crisis in Ukraine under a "white hats vs. black hats" narrative that fuels a bloody war of attrition that military experts compare to the First World War

Is frenzied religiosity a luxury that democracy, let alone civilized order can no longer...

Hypocrisy prize winner: a compassion-, life-inspired faith now hawks an intolerant parade of death trips  Though quests for religious...

Mental health illness: a global tragedy by design

The world we are living in, with its constant noise, demands and pressures; the destructive ideologies, divisions and unjust systems, works against such inner quiet and mental well-being.

The dark side of sports stadiums

When it comes to stadium deals, the only winners are billionaires.

We’ve never been closer to nuclear catastrophe—who gains by ignoring it?

Antiwar and environmental activist Dr. Helen Caldicott warns that policymakers who understate the danger of nuclear weapons don’t have the public’s best interest at heart.