Chris Hedges: America Is a Banana Republic
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will…
Patrick Lawrence: Zohran Mamdani and His (Our) Enemies
What makes this election especially interesting to me, my years in Manhattan long over, are the still-larger questions a runaway victory for Mamdani would raise.
Martyrs to the Unspeakable: A Luminous Tapestry of Truth
It is a book that could only be written by a man sustained by a spiritual faith that inspired his four subjects to face their own deaths without flinching, so…
Ellen Brown: How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence
History shows that sovereign money creation can be a tool for public good when wielded wisely. It is time to reclaim that tool, not to serve the banks and speculative…
Patrick Lawrence: Against Chutzpah
“They’re like five-year-olds!” Thunberg exclaimed to Röstlund as she recounted all this. No, that’s not it, Greta. They’re like Zionists.
Despite Poll Bump, Cuomo’s Strategies Won’t Beat Mamdani
In trying hard to be clever and connect with voters, the former frontrunner looks clueless.
The Effects of US-Israel Bond are ‘Etched Into the Mass Graves of Gaza,’ International Legal Complaint Says
The petition charged the United States with aiding and abetting Israel in its commission of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Gaza, in violation of the Convention on…
Ellen Brown: How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain
The Fed has issued trillions of dollars in reserves to save the banks, its real constituents. Would it do that to save the government?
Patrick Lawrence: To Whom Goes the Good?
We find ourselves plunging well beyond the apple-pie authoritarianism that threatened a few years ago. No apple pie this time.
Chris Hedges: The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.
Missing Links in Textbook History: The American Left Part III
Is it not predictable that when segments of a population are harassed, marginalized and enslaved, they will eventually revolt? Does that not constitute a demand for justice?
Ellen Brown: Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls
The Department of Defense’s $885.7 billion budget for 2025, approved by the House of Representatives, dwarfs the military spending of China ($296 billion), Russia ($84 billion), and the next eight…