Oppenheimer, the Bomb and the Price of Serving the State
David Rieff and Steve Wasserman discuss the physicist’s Jewish identity, left-wing politics and loyalty to the country that stripped him of his security clearance. A conversation with David Rieff and…
Heads or Tails, Wall Street Wins: Saving Our Pensions From The Casino
Ellen Brown “Most billionaires don’t park their money in making more businesses. They park their money in the stock market. That is not meaningfully investing in opportunity, it’s just investing…
The Devastating Reality Of Having Loved Ones In Prison
Mansa Musa TRNN Advocates say inhumane conditions and no-contact policies at the CoreCivic-run facility are intentionally designed to pressure people detained there into signing deportation orders. In this episode of…
The Genocide Party Won And Apparently It’s A Victory For Progressives
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Today’s daily slop is the midterm US elections. I was reluctant to react, because, well, I didn’t want to bore myself, or you. Yet here…
‘Thank You Bernie’: Organizers Credit Progressive Leader For ‘Long Game’ That Paid Off
Julia Conley Common Dreams The movement that led to at least 18 progressive victories in congressional races and 42 left-wing winners down-ballot “started with a man with 1% vote and…
How The Intl. Community Sold Out Gaza & Killed Itself In The Process (w/ Norm Finkelstein) | TCHR
Chris Hedges and Norman Finkelstein The greatest injustices in the world are often masked in volumes of complex and incomprehensible legal language that are not accessible to the general public.…
From Maine To Michigan To Texas, ‘Rise of Real Economic Populism’ Trounces Right-Wing Billionaire Cash
Jake Jonson Common Dreams It wasn’t just a Democratic tsunami that swept the United States in Tuesday’s midterm elections—it was also an “economic populist wave” that drowned out billionaire cash.…
Last Night’s “Blue Wave” Means Nothing If We Don’t Stop The NDAA
Melissa Garriga As taxpayers, we are funding our own endgame, but we don’t have to. Last night’s election results proved that a majority of people in this country do not…
Gen Z Shakes It Up: A Portrait Of A Generation Storming Heaven
Julien Anchaing and Enzo Tresso, Left Voice. A generation caught in global chaos is rising up in the face of a capitalist system. That grows more corrupt by the day.…
Trump Lost The Midterms, But The Fight Against War, ICE, And Austerity Continues
Madeleine Freeman Left Voice Democrats swept both chambers of Congress, flipped Texas, and saw DSA send a record five new members to the House. The midterms marked the beginning of…
Democrat Flips Lindsey Graham’s Old Senate Seat in Historic Election Upset
By Chris Walker Truthout For the first time in nearly three decades, voters in South Carolina have selected a Democratic candidate to represent them in the United States Senate. Pediatrician…
The Girl in Gaza With a Piece of Blue Cloth
Mats Svensson CounterPunch Her grandparents never began with the leaving. They began with the house. When her grandparents spoke, they spoke of the house—a stone house. They always said stone…
Israel’s Election Shows Its Democracy Is A Sham, But The West Can’t Stop Buying The Lie
Jonathan Cook Substack Israel’s general election last week unmasked beyond question the West’s much-cherished fiction of Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state”. That Israel’s democratic pretensions are taken seriously…
Michigan, Like The Founding Fathers, Repudiates Islamophobic Bigotry In Senate Race
Juan Cole Informed Comment The ugly tactics of the Republican Party in Michigan, targeting Abdul El-Sayed for his Muslim faith, were not unprecedented in American history. Catholics, Jews and other…