by JENNIFER MATSUI Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair We should welcome Bloomberg’s candidacy. It’s proof that the term plutocracy as it applies to the US isn’t just hyperbole but now an uncontested fact. The DNC’s willingness […]
by STEPHEN CORRY Petroglyphs, Klamath River Basin. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The conservation industry says 2020 is its “super year.”[1] It wants to set aside thirty percent of the globe for wildlife, and divert billions of dollars […]
by SHELDON RICHMAN Photograph Source: VasenkaPhotography – CC BY 2.0 Anyone old enough to think about “America’s” role in the world ought to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. For example, one […]
by PAUL STREET Photograph Source: Steve Bott – CC BY 2.0 The “liberal” top-down class and propaganda war on the progressive populist Bernie Sanders is something to behold. It advances at least four master narratives. Red Baiting The first […]
By Andrew J. Bacevich Addressing the graduating cadets at West Point in May 1942, General George C. Marshall, then the Army chief of staff, reduced the nation’s purpose in the global war it had recently joined to […]
by DEAN BAKER Photograph Source: Maurizio Pesce – CC BY 2.0 Last month George Soros had a New York Times column arguing that Mark Zuckerberg should not be running Facebook. (Does the NYT reserve space on its opinion page […]
President Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of 11 mostly white-collar criminals, including Michael Milken, the “junk-bond king” at the center of the savings and loan crisis; Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who […]
by ANDREW LEVINE Photograph Source: Gage Skidmore – CC BY 2.0 The good news out of New Hampshire was, of course, that Bernie Sanders won – not by much, but by enough to leave no doubt as […]
by BRUCE E. LEVINE Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair When the state becomes chillingly evil—enacting a Fugitive Slave Act to criminalize those helping to free slaves, or financing prisons and wars for the benefit of sociopathic […]
by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Arctic Wolf. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. +It’s amusing as hell to see Nate Silver forced to eat his numbers and grudgingly declare Bernie the frontrunner. But if you’re a Sandernista you have to […]