The Damage Done
BY GEORGE OCHENSKI Being home to the largest Superfund site in the nation, Montanans know that the cost of trying to clean up an environment damaged by resource extraction is vastly higher than the cost of […]
Riley Williams VS. Sandra Bland: Absolutely Insane
Mahmoud El-Yousseph Dear editor, It is absolutely INSANE that Riley June Williams directed rioters in the US Capitol attack, stole a laptop that belongs to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attempted to sell it to Russian […]
Yes, It's Time to Come Home—Now
Actually ending the war in Afghanistan. by: Andrew Bacevich As Americans learned in Vietnam, the only way to end a war gone wrong is to leave the field of battle. (Photo: Sergeant Joseph R. Chenelly […]
“I Am Greta” isn’t About Climate Change. It’s About the Elusiveness of Sanity in an Insane World
BY JONATHAN COOK Photograph Source: Nick from Bristol – CC BY 2.0 Erich Fromm, the renowned German-Jewish social psychologist who was forced to flee his homeland in the early 1930s as the Nazis came to power, offered […]
The Nation’s New Crime Boss
BY JOHN DAVIS Photograph Source: Dale Cruse – CC BY 2.0 A great deal of energy was expended recently to influence who would be the next president of the criminal enterprise that is the United States of […]
Roaming Charges: The Gang That Couldn’t Sue Straight
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR + There’s a certain poetic justice in Trump’s bizarre spasm of losing lawsuits (W 2 – L 32) that merely prolong his agony and force him to relive his defeat over and […]
The Real v. the Liberal Fantasy Obama Presidency
Two Excerpts from Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and the Politics of Appeasement BY PAUL STREET Photograph Source: J E Theriot – CC BY 2.0 What matters is not so much the color of your skin as the power you serve and […]
The Lost Art of the Steal
BY MATTHEW STEVENSON Photograph Source: Paul Sableman – CC BY 2.0 What’s the matter with Donald Trump and the Republican Party that they are making such a hash of stealing an election? Why are they making such […]
Trump and Giuliani Go Full IS in Attack on Biden and Democrats
BY DAVE LINDORFF It’s often been noted that countries that go to war tend to adopt the behaviors of their enemies in fighting them, and then bring that war and the techniques they have appropriated home […]
Pandemic and Presidential Recriminations
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Christine Warner – CC BY 2.0 The election is over, and we’re back to reality. Namely a lame-duck president until January20, who also happens to be a dangerous reactionary with a short […]