The Joshua Tree is Us
by JOHN HORNING For hundreds of years, the Joshua tree has been a source of inspiration for not only Americans but people all around the world. Its branches reaching to the sky reminded early settlers of […]
Climate Confusion, Angst, and Sleeplessness
by ROBERT HUNZIKER Climate change is a nagging issue for many people because it is so big, diverse, and overwhelming, as big as the planet itself. So, how to explain climate change? Sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and […]
Nazi regime Is Not Interested in the Golan Heights for Security
Israel Is Not Interested in the Golan Heights for Security BY: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Just weeks before major elections in Israel that could determine the future of embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump […]
Trump’s Drug Deal Goes to Congress: Impeachment, Day One
by RON JACOBS Photograph Source: Paul Sableman – CC BY 2.0 It’s almost always kind of a circle jerk when congressional committees interrogate those involved with the Executive Branch. One can’t help but think that many of […]
Oppose the Military Coup in Bolivia. Spare Us Your “Critiques”
by JOE EMERSBERGER Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair It would be hard to point to a country whose president has more democratic legitimacy than Evo Morales. Nobody can seriously dispute that he won the first round […]
Mexico’s LeBaron Massacre and the War That Will Not Cease
by LAURA CARLSEN Photograph Source: Zapata – CC BY-SA 4.0 Just as the post-mortem analyses of the botched capture and release of El Chapo’s son, Ovidio Guzman, was dying down, Mexico suffered another atypical act of violence. […]
The Zionist Smear Campaign Against Bernie Sanders Is Just Beginning
BYYoav Litvin, Truthout AUnited States plagued by inequality, corruption, racism, and war is gearing up for a polarizing and potentially explosive election season in 2020. Most likely, President Trump will be the Republican nominee, while […]
Trump’s Crime Against Humanity
by ADRIAN KUZMINSKI There is a different and better case to be made for the impeachment of President Trump than what we have seen so far. The current charges against Trump raised by the Democrats–collusion with […]
Lula is Free: Can Socialism Be Restored?
by ANA PAULA VARGAS – VIJAY PRASHAD Just before 5 p.m. on Friday the 8th of November, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva walked out of his prison in Curitiba, Brazil. Lula went to prison in April last […]
Trump’s Syrian See-Saw: From Pullout to Pillage
by JIM KAVANAGH Photograph Source: Staff Sgt. Andrew Goedl – Public Domain To withdraw, or not to withdraw? That is the question Donald Trump, in his own inimitable way, has answered both ways. First came the […]