by TED RALL Most years, the Super Bowl is a dud. Yet the hype machine keeps pulling in new suckers. The quadrennial announcement of the Democratic nomination for vice president features an identical Lucy, Charlie Brown […]
by RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The capitalist economic system has always had a big problem with politics in societies with universal suffrage. Anticipating that, most capitalists opposed and long resisted extending suffrage […]
by VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Prefeitura de Olinda – CC BY 2.0 Jhuliana Rodrigues works as a nurse technician at the Hospital São Vicente in Jundiaí, Brazil. “It is very difficult,” she says of her job these […]
Zionist puppet Alan Dershowitz is an ally of Trump and Naziyahu who LOVES to blame Palestinians for the violence and oppression they experience under Nazi occupation. He says things like: “The suffering of Palestinians, which does […]
BYAmy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now! Protests continue in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where police shot an unarmed Black man in the back seven times as he was getting into his car, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. […]
BYChris Walker, Truthout After two protesters were murdered by 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night, the city’s Chief of Police Dan Miskinis appeared to imply in comments to media that it was the […]
by PAUL STREET The American ruling class says it is opposed to “big government.” It isn’t. The wealthy Few are only against what the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu called “the left hand of the state” – those parts […]
by RICHARD C. GROSS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Trump administration orders shortening census taking by a month and slowing the activities of the United States Postal Service that may impact mail-in balloting have a common […]
BYMark Bray, Truthout The opening night of this week’s Republican National Convention (RNC) prominently featured a speech by Patricia and Mark McCloskey, the wealthy white couple who illegally brandished firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters in […]
BYElla Fassler, Truthout Each Republican National Convention (RNC) is met with protests and a corresponding police presence. The resistance against the 2020 convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, has taken on a particularly anti-racist character, in line […]