Tag: politics
Is Trump’s demolition derby apt ‘punishment’ for our sins?
If any higher power – call it fortune, destiny or divinity – had wanted Armageddon to roll over America, what Horses’ Ass of the Apocalypse wouldn’t do better than Trump?
In CNN’s tax debate, Bernie Sanders showed how Democrats can win...
By offering a bold vision of policies to help working families, Sanders voiced a popular alternative to Ted Cruz and the GOP’s barbarism.
President Nero
As so much of the world burns, America’s answer to Nero, rather than fiddling, seems intent on pouring more gasoline on the fires.
New federal guidelines for campus assault put heavy burden on victims
College administrators worry a more rigorous process for proving sexual assault could send the wrong message to students.
Dead nation walking
Regardless of who is our president, from either of the two ‘War Parties’, military spending has been going through the roof.
Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton on duty to warn: Trump’s “relation to...
Robert Jay Lifton discusses what is now happening between the U.S. and North Korea, and Iran, and President Trump’s closest aides expressing concern that Trump is unraveling.
The calm before the storm? What is it, how long will...
Are we Americans in the calm before a storm? What lies ahead for the people of this country?
Why we need sanctuary states
California’s law limits the authority of state and local law enforcers to communicate with federal immigration authorities, and prevents officers from questioning or holding people depending on their immigration status or immigration violations.
The Media: Not so much fake news as shallow, less than...
It might be said that the media is not well-rounded for it often beats the same subject almost to death.
How globalism works just like the mafia
The next twenty years may be the most significant in modern human history.
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Not very bright
How much of Donald Trump’s directive on U.S. tariffs imposed on nations all over the world—that in recent days has caused a stock market loss of trillions of dollars—is a result of his not being very bright?
Patriotic Millionaires challenge oligarch power with sweeping economic plan
As economic inequality worsens and public frustration grows, a coalition of wealthy Americans offers a radical legislative blueprint to dismantle the grip of the ultra-rich on democracy.
Chevron ordered to pay $744 million for decades of destruction to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands
A Louisiana jury’s landmark verdict against Chevron signals a major shift in holding Big Oil accountable for environmental degradation and decades of ignored coastal restoration laws.
Over 4,000 factory workers laid off as Trump tariffs spark economic chaos
A wave of mass layoffs across the U.S. exposes the real cost of Trump’s trade war, as union leaders and lawmakers warn of deepening instability in American manufacturing.
Israeli soldiers expose ‘kill zone’ campaign in Gaza, citing war crimes and systematic devastation
A new report from Breaking the Silence reveals shocking testimony from Israeli troops describing the creation of a lethal buffer zone inside Gaza, the deliberate razing of civilian infrastructure, and the normalization of killing civilians.