by JASON HIRTHLER Photograph Source: Richard Eriksson – CC BY 2.0 Sitting in the East Village, drinking a coffee and trying to read a book, it was hard to ignore the rollicking conversation of liberal Boomers sitting […]
by JOHN DAVIS Plague is defeated, detail of the “Column of the Plague” (Pestsäule), Graben, Vienna, Austria. Photograph Source: Jebulon – CC0 It is the beginning of the twenty-first century and most humans remain inhabitants of what […]
by MARK WEISBROT Joe Biden has surged since the South Carolina primary, and the received wisdom is that this was mainly because of the perception by his voters that he was the most electable candidate against […]
by VICTOR WALLIS Photograph Source: Poster Boy – CC BY 2.0 The US political scene is haunted by talk of socialism. The basis for this has been developing now for some years, especially since the financial meltdown […]
by CHARLES PIERSON Photograph Source: Dan Zen – CC BY 2.0 However grave the calamity, someone will see it as a way to make a buck. COVID-19, which the World Health Organization declared as a global pandemic […]
by RAMZY BAROUD Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair “I am a Zionist. You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist,” current Democratic Presidential candidate, Joe Biden, said in April 2007, soon before he […]
by KATHY KELLY Photo: Campaign for Peace and Democracy, 2013. U.S. sanctions against Iran, cruelly strengthened in March of 2018, continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people. Presently, the U.S. “maximum pressure” policy severely undermines […]
by DR. MICHAEL PAPPAS Coronavirus has officially hit the United States. Throughout the country, there have been anywhere between 1600 and 3600 confirmed cases and 41 deaths. This number is likely a gross underestimate of the actual number of cases, […]
by JEFFERSON MORLEY After Sunday night’s Democratic presidential debate, Anita Dunn, senior adviser to Joe Biden’s campaign, defended the vice president’s performance in a briefing with reporters. Last year, Dunn, who served as communications director in Barack […]
by DANIEL RAVENTÓS – JULIE WARK Photograph Source: Generation Grundeinkommen – CC BY 2.0 Apart from the medical threat revealing a brutal class divide in healthcare, the coronavirus pandemic is creating social and economic havoc among non-rich […]