Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Voices for Change

Israelis invade Syria: Who will stop Israel?

Israel's latest land-grab in Syria, and the UN and the rest of the world's inability to stop Israel from ignoring and violating the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention.

It was the rage of the age

Was Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research facility in Suffolk County, pivotal to the spread of eugenics through the United States and world?

Rahm Emanuel is right on core party changes, but for progressives misses the big...

“The bullies don’t stop hitting you because you’re nice to them. They stop hitting you when you knock them out.”

Political economy contradictions as we lurch into 2025

Multiple, intense, and persistent contradictions within both parties suggest that some underlying, historic shifts may be underway.

My hunger strike for Gaza: A 31 day experience

I began this hunger strike to demand that my government end the siege on Gaza.

Take me to your leader

Arrogance and charisma are not the same as leadership.

What is our collective solution to health injustice?

The fight over health care in the U.S. is about competing narratives: profit-making versus collective well-being. We need to articulate a publicly funded solution now—before corporate spin silences us.

Robber Barons on the march – what kind of backlash faces crisis-inducing, know-it-all oligarchs...

When did callous “austerity politics” suddenly make sense to the complaining impoverished?

How the Braiding Seeds Fellowship works to uproot racism in the food system

This Petersburgh, New York, organization fights racial injustice in the food system.

Hey Republican voters—you ain’t seen nothing yet!

In defense of the federal government, or...

Not as simple as 1, 2, 3: Humanity has a surprisingly diverse understanding of...

Language plays an important role in understanding the concept of numbers.

Can Dems flee corporate, status quo shackles, then press reforms that address systemic wreckage?

Why did the Harris team think “more of the same” would win this year? Now truly, and not in a good way, anyone can be president – character, morality, competence and respect for the law be damned.

Truce in Lebanon: Can diplomacy rise from the ruins?

The truce in Lebanon and the evolving diplomacy that is reshaping the Middle East in response to the genocide in Gaza as the threat of a major regional war is ever growing.

The carbon soil opportunity: Organic farming helps counter climate change

Switching to organic products is an easy way to eat healthier and support the environment.

Dire betrayals – banishing the past and core values: what else tells us who...

Revolutions are not about overwhelming negativity.

A reformist program on immigration (or what Harris might have said)

A radical program would embrace the freedom to migrate as universal and therefore reorient the global location of investment to serve that freedom both domestically and internationally.

Resist: How to keep ‘it’ from happening here

Resistance is just another word for constructive policy.

Omnicide Joe?

Whether heralded or reviled, Biden’s supposed restraint during the Ukraine war has steadily faded, with more and more dangerous escalation in its place.

Trumpism at the feeding trough: “What can we get away with? What can we...

Running a Trump chaos crusade is like handing a loaded shotgun to a staggering drunk out to revenge against invisible forces.

Sierra Club sounds alarm, nominee Lee Zeldin ‘unqualified’ to head EPA

“The best-case scenario is that the EPA will lose four years in the fight for the planet. The worst-case scenario should send a shudder down your spine.”