To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Responses to the debate
Trump, 78, has been on the political stage for eight years marked by chaos, corruption, and incivility. Why go back to that?
We Can Safeguard Democracy Without Giving in to Fear and More Policing
Resourcing and pursuing alternate pathways to dialogue and holding space for conflict nonviolently is crucial for safeguarding democracy and fostering community safety.
SWLRT SNAFU: Southwest Light Rail Train—Situation Normal All “Fouled” Up
The over-budget will be paid exclusively by Hennepin County taxpayers. Hennepin County’s 2023 population was 1,320,307. With a $1,000,000,000 debt that would be about $1,000 of “cost-sharing” owed by each man, woman and child in the county. SWLRT SNAFU: Southwest Light Rail Train—Situation Normal All “Fouled” Up Skybridge pedestrian walkway to Bryn Mawr commuter station More
Jeffrey Sachs: The Failures of the Global Economic System, World Warming, Nuclear Age, Peace
There's nothing in the global economic system that automatically protects the environment, How can we cooperate to achieve the objectives.
Chris Hedges: Fascism Comes to America
Eighty million eligible voters did not vote in the last presidential election, no doubt because they did not expect much to change in their lives whoever was in office. And they were probably right.
Caitlin Johnstone: Pay Attention To The Everyday Horrors
Pay Attention To The Everyday Horrors By CAITLIN JOHNSTONE Substack.com September 9, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Have you ever noticed how the criticisms that both mainstream US political factions make about their opposition tend to be cartoonish exaggerations and whole cloth lies with little or no More
You Can’t Project Power When the World Knows You are Weak, Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III
We can see the demise of the U.S. Empire happening in real time. According to Alexander Mercouris, host of The Duran, “the great period of danger in any international system is when the overarching empire declines, when it starts to lose control.
How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, by Norman Solomon
Timing is crucial in media and politics—and never more so than when war is at stake. It’s completely unsatisfactory for journalists to toe the war line for years and then finally report, in effect: Now it can be told—years too late.
Glenn Greenwald: Escalating the War Against Dissidents and Key Left-Liberal Tactic: Hold Everyone But Yourself to the Highest Moral Standards (& Get Rich!)
Greenwald makes the connections: the mainsream corporate media, green-washing by billionairies with their yachts, the pro-state (instead of pro-truth) mainstream corporate meida, the climate crisis and the carbon footprint...and more
Errors of Omission: Rage Against the War Machine March and Rally
All these issues matter: gun control, gay and trans rights, women’s rights (above all to control our own bodies), racism, homelessness, poverty, labor/union rights, police brutality, hunger, health care…the list is long. Yet if we do not have a livable planet all these struggles will be moot.
Roger Waters Questioned in Depth About Ukraine, Russia, Israel, U.S.
We need to get all our leaders around the table and force them to say: “No more war!”. That would be the point where dialogue can start.
Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd
Governance exists. But it is not seen. It is certainly not democratic. It is done by the armies of lobbyists and corporate executives, from the fossil fuel industry, the arms industry, the pharmaceutical industry and Wall Street. Governance happens in secret.