Ellen Brown: Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty as Global Food Systems Collapse
The solution to the current food crisis is small and local, including growing food locally. But how to fund local food co-ops without pricey loans from big banks?
Boris Johnson’s Downfall Also Marks Brexit’s Final Act
A potent combination of sex, booze, and lies finally turned the British prime minister’s narcissism, contempt for truth, and blatant disregard for convention from personality traits into political liabilities.
Patrick Lawrence: This Week in Fake News / Blurred Truths
A veteran journalist's weekly critique on the state of mass media
John Kiriakou: Hold the Fireworks
From the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe v. Wade to the persecution of whistleblowers, this July 4th exploded with reasons not to celebrate.
Ron Kovic: The Dark Irony of This Patriotic Orgy and the Celebration of War
Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic, author of “Born on the Fourth of July” and subject of Oliver Stone’s iconic Vietnam War film, will mark his 76 th birthday watching a…
From Fake News to Junk News: Gabriela Miranda Is the Symptom, Not the Problem
Nolan Higdon turns a critical eye on the latest case of journalistic malpractice to rock the media world.
Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff: Defund the Democratic Party
More Republicans in office will not save abortion rights, but history has shown, neither will more Democrats.
Patrick Lawrence: The Power of Images
How the mainstream media uses images to define truth.
Chris Hedges: The Disappearance of Meghan Marohn
There is a national epidemic of missing girls and women. This is the story of a friend who has become one of these grim statistics.
Foreign Policy: The Warmonger’s Game
Patrick Lawerence on rescuing foreign policy from the elites.
Hedges: Fascists in Our Midst
Supreme Court rulings, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade, herald the ascendancy of Christian fascism in the United States.
The Late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Critiqued Roe v. Wade at Chicago Law School Visit
She would’ve preferred that abortion rights be secured more gradually, in a process that included state legislatures and the courts, she added. Ginsburg also was troubled that the focus on…
Nolan Higdon & Mickey Huff: Has America Lost the Key to Democracy?
The authors of “Let’s Agree to Disagree” offer a guide to fostering critical thinking and dialogue in a society that seems to have forgotten how to engage in either.
America’s Second Civil War is Underway
Gun violence is only one symptom of American democracy's terminal illness.
Katrina vanden Huevel: The Pentagon Gets More Money and Americans Pay the Price
What’s all this new defense spending for?