Plague Journal #8: Medicare Mills and Nursing Home Nightmares
This week Cuomo, in an aside during his daily, nationally televised press briefing , made a memorable understatement. “Now is not the best time to put your mother in a…
Life on Lockdown
The coronavirus pandemic that has spread across this world has made the experience of having to live on lockdown against one's will a reality for all people who certainly never…
Coronavirus: Scientific Realities vs. Economic Fallacies
Why do we live in a social and economic system that can only exist in a state of frantic movement forward and up, and for which it is impossible to…
Ann Jones: Getting Trumped by Covid-19
As the coronavirus runs wild in Donald Trump’s America, veteran journalist and humanitarian Ann Jones offered a vivid analysis of how two countries, Norway and the U.S., dealt with it…
Ellen Brown: Crushing the States, Saving the Banks: the Fed’s Generous New Rules
It has long been a goal of conservatives to privatize public pensions, forcing seniors into the riskier stock market. Lured in by market booms, their savings can then be raided…
Andrew Bacevich: A Greatest Generation We Are Not
We’re two decades into a new century, one in which the U.S. has been fighting a series of wars that won’t end and in which this country has only recently…
Plague Journal #7: Remembering the Shock of Reporting on Kent State
A mostly forgotten element that bridges the Nixon-Trump eras is the thuggish fact-free ways Trump et al are dividing the country to preserve their electoral viability. As is the search…
An Army of Humanity to Fight Crimes Against Humanity
A United Nations Rapid Deployment Force would give individual citizens all around the world the ability to volunteer to do more than just “serve their countries.” It would give them…
Kevin Cooper: Experiencing COVID-19 on Death Row
A letter from Kevin Cooper to Death Penalty Focus.
Noam Chomsky
Robert Scheer
SI Podcast
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[rewind] Noam Chomsky Makes the Case for the Lesser of Two Evils
In the second part of his interview with Robert Scheer, the renowned thinker shares his criticisms of Israel and his views on electoralism.
Nomi Prins
Robert Scheer
SI Podcast
SI: Democracy & Media
SI: Justice & Injustice
SI: Politics
SI: Reporting Abuse of Power
Nomi Prins on the Troubling Washington-Wall Street Connection
Robert Scheer discusses the culture of Wall Street and its influence on government with the author, journalist and former investment banker.