Chris Hedges | Our Ever-Deadlier Police State
The grotesque distortions of the judicial system and the aggressive war on the poor by the police will get worse under President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Peacestock 2017
An eye-opening object lesson in U.S. military strength around the world with a special in depth report on Ukraine.
Frieda Berrigan | Why Tax Resistance Under Trump Needs Its Antiwar Edge
Tax resistance -- in all its forms -- does matter.
Frieda Berrigan | Why Tax Resistance Under Trump Needs Its Antiwar Edge
Tax resistance -- in all its forms -- does matter.
Jason Ditz | Congress Wants Another $1 Trillion To ‘Reboot’ The Military
This trillion dollars easily breaks the budget on already prohibitively high military spending, and it’s just one of many schemes likely to be adopted.
Juan Cole | World More Violent in Past Year, but Middle East Drives Deterioration (Video)
If the GPI is right about what produces peace, you’d have to conclude that the US is heading toward increased violence.
Sarah Van Gelder | Amid Election Chaos, Communities Show Where the Real Power Is
van Gelder: In every community I visited, I found people working hard to lay a different foundation for our society.
A conversation with Noam Chomsky on organizing for a next system
An initial signatory to the Next System statement, Chomsky explores the connections between culture, mass movements, and economic experiments—which in “mutually reinforcing” interaction, may build toward a next system more quickly than you may think.
VIDEO | Mark Fiore: Hiding, Secret and Shell
Most of these people with offshore accounts are just trying to avoid paying taxes, but many of them are corrupt politicians and other criminals.
VIDEOS: Chris Hedges & Michael Hudson | Days of Revolt: How We Got to Junk Economics
A politicians job is to deliver whoever voted for you to your backers, who are on Wall Street. Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, but especially if you are a Democrat that's really the Wall Street wing of the American political system. The Republicans are for the corporate monopoly, oil and gas wing of it.
Marc Ash: Socialism? Let’s Cut to the Chase
“A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.” – Noam Chomsky
▶ Robert Reich|VIDEO: What’s the Fed? You Should Care.
Beyond Outrage, Reich: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it.