Articles in Headline
For decades the nation’s plutocracy has worked unceasingly to foster fear, mass stupidity, hatred, and ignorance. Now the ugly harvest is at hand.
By David Michael Green
In the 1930s, the only thing we had to …
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The Big Lie machine built by the right (and the establishment) must be broken. But that important feat won’t be achieved until progressives get serious about building their own media and mass communications …
“Until a compelling message is articulated that we’re senselessly treading on Nature’s symmetry, and in so doing destroying ourselves, the sheer madness will continue unabated…”
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IN ITS MOST DISTILLED FORM, Cicero had it right: philosophy is …
Self-interest trumps moral principle for most, says the author, explaining the American public passivity in the face of huge crimes.
By Stephen Gowans | August 7, 2010
If legitimacy and moral principle mattered, a groundswell …
Few issues are more pressing in America than the realization this is a nation divided not according to simple income trenches, but opposing classes.
By Joe Bageant August 18, 2010 |
How …
Lincoln’s and TR’s association with the Republican Party has given it a respectability it hardly deserves.
FOR MOST OF ITS EXISTENCE since the end of Reconstruction following the election of 1876, the Republican Party has been …
Climate Disobedience Is on the Rise and It’s Not Just for Radical Activists Anymore
Editor’s Note: From its inception, capitalist democracy has never been fully democratic, with capitalism dictating the terms throughout most of its history …
More Than 150,000 May Have Been Killed
By DANIEL KOVALIK | Reposted on 8.7. 2010
IN HIS BOOK, Colombia: the Genocidal Democracy, Father Javier Girardo, a Jesuit priest and long-time human rights activist in Colombia, estimated …
Michelle’s ostentatious trip to Europe underscores the huge chasm between leaders and led in this pretentious “democracy”.
PATRICE GREANVILLE |
PHOTO: Michelle Obama deplaning in Spain.
Billing itself as the best democracy the world has ever …
There are moments that define a war. Just such a one occurred on June 21, when Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry helicoptered into Marjah for a photo op with …
