Tomgram: Trump’s Own Military Mafia, by Danny Sjursen
"A brief look at key ‘86ers offers insight into President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s military-industrial complex in 2020 -- and it should take your breath away."
VA to shift billions of dollars to private care for veterans
Critics, which include nearly all of the major veterans’ organizations, say that paying for care in the private sector would starve the 153-year-old veterans’ health care system, causing many hospitals to close.
Greg Palast | The Pig That Burst the Keystone Pipeline— and the Kochs
Why the PIG didn't squeal and Yes, the Kochs, behind the Keystone Pipeline expansion.
Greg Palast | The Pig That Burst the Keystone Pipeline— and the Kochs
Why the PIG didn't squeal and Yes, the Kochs, behind the Keystone Pipeline expansion.
Greg Palast | Billionaires vs. Billionaires: How TrumpCare’s Defeat Was Actually a Victory for the Koch Brothers
The Kochs pocket billions while we fry: burning the Canadian tar sands reserve will, all by itself, raise the temperature of the entire planet by 0.7 degrees Fahrenheit.
Greg Palast | Billionaires vs. Billionaires: How TrumpCare's Defeat Was Actually a Victory for the Koch Brothers
The Kochs pocket billions while we fry: burning the Canadian tar sands reserve will, all by itself, raise the temperature of the entire planet by 0.7 degrees Fahrenheit.
Henry A. Giroux | Why Teachers Matter in Dark Times
Public schools and higher education are "dangerous" because they hold the potential to serve as laboratories for democracy.
Duane Cady | The biggest burden on the environment: War
Cady: The U.S. Department of Defense is the single largest consumer of energy. Ninety-three percent of U.S. government energy consumption is military (Air Force, 52 percent; Navy, 33 percent; Army, 7 percent).
Ed Felien | Terrorist attack on Mother Emanuel: Why capitalism needs racism
There have been twice as many deaths from white male, right-wing terrorists than there have been from Islamic terrorists since 9/11, and, yet, we’ll spend more than $3 trillion in 2015 fighting Islamic terrorism... NOKOMIS EDITION (2nd Monday) July 2015, VOL. XXV, ISSUE 21 By Ed Felien Southside Pride July 13, 2015 How do you get More
Henry A. Giroux | Higher Education and the Promise of Insurgent Public Memory
Giroux: The current historical moment calls for a politics that is transnational in its scope, global in its sense of responsibility and capable of creating new democratic public spheres in which it becomes possible to show private troubles can be connected to larger social issues, and public connections and modes of solidarity can be sustained beyond the private sphere. Only then will the promise and possibility of creating a radical global commons in the service of a radical democracy come into view.
Common Dreams: 12 Days of Christmas Apologies
And If the Super-Greedy Refuse to Apologize and Make Amends for Their Treatment of Less Fortunate Americans? Let Visions of Occupy II Dance in Their Heads.
Rolling Stone: Inside the Koch Brothers’ Toxic Empire
Together, Charles and David Koch control one of the world's largest fortunes, which they are using to buy up our political system. But what they don't want you to know is how they made all that money. Tim Dickinson has written a great article in a mainstream publication. It really introduces the Kochs to a More