Joel Swanson On Friday, President Trump rang in Fourth of July weekend with a speech and fireworks display at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, a stark contrast with the large number of fireworks displays that were canceled across the […]
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 MEDEA BENJAMIN – STEVE ELLNER U.S. policy towards Venezuela has been a fiasco. Try as it might, the Trump regime-change team has been unable to depose President Maduro and finds itself stuck with a self-proclaimed […]
by MICHAEL HUDSON – ELLEN BROWN Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Ellen Brown: My guest today is Dr. Michael Hudson, who we’re delighted to have on our Public Banking Institute Advisory Board, and who really should […]
by PAUL STREET Photograph Source: Mike Maguire – CC BY 2.0 “What He Wishes He Had: Total Power” This is a supremely dangerous moment. The White House is occupied by a rogue fascist regime whose malignant leader […]
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 […]
by RICHARD MOSER Photo: Doug Brown/ACLU of Oregon. The cops are violating the Constitution by attacking people exercising their basic rights — — that much is obvious. The rounding up of random protestors because they “fit the […]
by MIKE HASTIE The last couple of nights I have been heavily involved in demonstrations in Portland, Oregon. ( July 18-19, 2020.) As most of you probably know these demonstrations have been going on in front of […]
by RON JACOBS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It is not hard to see the forces kidnapping individuals and teargassing Portland’s streets as the Trump administration’s private stormtroopers. Although they are operating under the aegis of […]
by MARTHA ROSENBERG Stuck at home? Watching a lot of TV? Pharma’s way ahead of you. In April, TV ad expenditures for the top 10 prescription drugs increased to $183 million from $156 million in March according to […]