What does it mean when journalists who spent the last two decades promoting wars of aggression on brown- and black-skinned people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen take a knee? The Observer commented: ‘There is […]
BY: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams Win Without War was among the anti-war voices on Friday issuing blistering condemnations of the passage in the U.S. House of a $740 billion defense bill as part of the 2021 Appropriations Minibus. […]
by PAM MARTENS – RUSS MARTENS When it comes to the crime families of New York, they literally do catch and kill people who can’t be trusted to keep the secrets of their criminal operations. When it comes […]
by BRIAN CLOUGHLEY Photograph Source: lilivanili – CC BY 2.0 At this time of all times, when the world is staggering from the shattering effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, it would be sensible for nations to pull […]
by JOSHUA FRANK Sierra Club outing, 1902. It’s about 100 years too late, but the well-heeled Sierra Club is finally grappling with its founder’s racist past. John Muir, lauded by many as the grandfather of the modern conservation […]
No one can right the wrongs perpetrated in the past and yet we must address the injustices of the present. byTodd Cronan, Charles Palermo A crew removes the statue of confederateMatthew Fontaine Maury located at the […]
by RICHARD C. GROSS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair This is not only one of the worst times for American democracy, it is one of the most dangerous times. The creeping – and creepy – autocracy […]
by JOHN MCMURTRY – JEFFERY KLAEHN Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Author of UNESCOs ‘Philosophy and World Problems’, Professor John McMurtry is questioned on the planetary life-system crisis by media critic Dr. Jeffery Klaehn. Klaehn: You have stated that […]
by BETTE LEE On the 59th night of BLM protests on July 25th at the federal courthouse, I was one of the thousands of protestors who went there. It took me a while to struggle through my […]
What’s there to say about the 80-page draft Democratic Party Platform? There’s something in it for everyone, maybe that’s why it’s so long. It’s full of lofty goals and language that promises the moon. As a […]