Noam Chomsky to President Obama: This could help 11 million immigrants
Moral outrage can be averted by a general pardon for immigration infractions...
Chris Hedges | We Are All Deplorables
Martin Luther King Jr. understood the downward spiral of hating those who hate you.
Lauren McCauley | As Election Day Nears, Military Hawks Circle to Promote New Wave of War
“D.C. foreign policy elite are giddy that hawkish Barack Obama will be replaced by much more hawkish Hillary Clinton.”
Zeese and Flowers | Living In The Illusion Of Democracy
Democrats and Republicans are choosing to only debate Democrats and Republicans, and preventing any competition.
“Dog Whistle” Is the GOP’s Longtime Political Weapon of Choice
"Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class": The interview is an insighful analysis of race in politics, including but not limited to the current race between Hillary and Trump.
Sanders Supporters Need to Split or Get Off the Pot
“At least half of Americans that vote for the Democratic Party in national elections are social democrats whose politics are incompatible with the Democratic Leadership Council corporatists.”
Noam Chomsky | The Doomsday Clock: Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival
Both parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period of the past generation. Mainstream Democrats are now pretty much what used to be called “moderate Republicans.” Meanwhile, the Republican Party has largely drifted off the spectrum, becoming what respected conservative political analyst Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein call a “radical insurgency” that has virtually abandoned normal parliamentary politics.
Media Censorship: The News That Didn’t Make the News
Both parties are in support in the continuation of the US/NATO global empire of permanent war and the protection of the capital of the global 1%. Even Bernie Sanders calls for drone strikes and continued war on Isis and other evil terrorists.
Wm. Rivers Pitt | Tuesday Night Massacre: The Looming Trump v. Clinton Debacle
As a human being and a father, however, I find the whole exercise appalling and terrifying. This is the best we can do, really? This is what we have become. The only reason people will vote for Trump in the general election is because they have been trained to be afraid. The only reason people will vote for Clinton in the general election is to thwart Comb-Over Mussolini and his dreams of glory; once again, people will be voting against instead of voting for, because "she can win," allegedly.
Nuclear Waste Peddlers Still Pushing Yucca Mt. Dump
LaForge: DOE scientists have admitted that waste canisters will corrode away long before the radiation hazards do so. Much of the 70,000 tons of waste slated for a dump “remains radioactive for millions of years” (New York Times, Jan. 17, 1989) and “would be hazardous for millions of years” (NYT, Feb.12, 1989).
Video. Noam Chomsky & Abby Martin: Electing The President of an Empire
Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary "extravaganza," the movement for Bernie Sanders, the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan and more ...
Pipeline Spill in the Heart of Canada’s Tar Sands Industry Leaks 1.3 Million Gallons of Oily Emulsion
The leak, which was discovered Wednesday afternoon, is the largest pipeline spill in the province in 35 years, when a 54,000 barrel oil spill became Canada’s worst-ever pipeline incident.