While the media blames the crisis in Lebanon solely on corruption, the US government unleashed a “maximum pressure” campaign to… The post How the US helped push Lebanon to the brink of collapse, and now threatens more sanctions appeared first on The Grayzone.... Read more »

During a historic upsurge of black activism, Bill Clinton attacked the late Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture, a leading black power revolutionary.… The post Disparaging Stokely Carmichael, Bill Clinton attacks the black freedom struggle appeared first on The Grayzone.... Read more »

A friendly meeting California senator and self-declared “top cop” Kamala Harris held with Israel’s right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows… The post By clasping hands with Netanyahu, ‘top cop’ Kamala Harris whitewashes Israel’s racism appeared first on The Grayzone.... Read more »

Twitter says it bans ads from state-affiliated media outlets. However, US government propaganda organs like Voice of America’s VOA Persian… The post Twitter spreads paid US gov’t propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads appeared first on The Grayzone.... Read more »

A prominent Hong Kong pundit and anti-China activist named Kong Tsung-gan has become a go-to source for Western media. An… The post Western media’s favorite Hong Kong ‘freedom struggle writer’ is American ex-Amnesty staffer in yellowface appeared first on The Grayzone.... Read more »

Beirut’s explosion disaster is the product of a corrupt, sectarian political system maintained by foreign powers, Rania Masri argues. The… The post Lebanon’s corrupt, colonial system leads to explosion catastrophe appeared first on The Grayzone.... Read more »

A disturbing new document outlines plans for a US regime-change scheme against Nicaragua’s elected leftist government, overseen by USAID, to… The post Document exposes new US plot to overthrow Nicaragua’s elected socialist gov’t appeared first on The Grayzone.... Read more »

A dispatch from Bolivia shows the staggering human toll of the military coup, as an incompetent US-backed regime leaves impoverished… The post While Bolivia’s coup regime lets its citizens die, Cuba has nearly defeated Covid-19 appeared first on The Grayzone.... Read more »

Las revelaciones de un ex espía de la policía le dan un vuelco a la historia oficial que culpa a… The post Cómo el testimonio de un espía de la policía amenaza la narrativa oficial del atentado de la AMIA appeared first on The Grayzone.... Read more »

A schmuck plays the anti-Semitism card by Vernon Thorpe The post A Schmuck Plays the Antisemitism Card; A Mensch Exposes Him appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

Dear Mr. Finkelstein, I saw your post which said that today was the centenary of your mother’s birth. I would like to mention something which I think could be important for you. I hope you have the time to read through this.  Every year my high school would invite a holocaust survivor... Read more »

AUDIO 1993: WNYC, 93.9 FM – Life in the Ghetto – Did We Learn Anything? – Greedy Ruthless Element – End of the War & Aftermath – Are You Still a Pacifist? – It’s Not a State, It’s a Garrison – Germany After the War 1990: WBAI, 99.5 FM –... Read more »

Haunted House – Memoir excerpt   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KEhWTnWvE  (memories of her lost youth) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klObyJY1W_I  (“Let the Sunshine,” while she walked the streets of the Warsaw ghetto) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSuVCyT63II  (you can figure it out) The post Today marks the centenary of my Mother’s birth. To commemorate the occasion, I am posting an excerpt... Read more »

The post As Professor Dershowitz’s slime rating rises into the stratosphere, let’s honor the all-round sacks of shit who sang his praises. Of course, they knew nothing. Nobody knew anything. Except, everyone who wanted to know knew everything. Pinker just provided Dershowitz a little expert assistance to get Epstein off.... Read more »

The post HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANJEEV! (the song’s for the both of you) appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

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A 77-year-old Jewish socialist with two young African-Americans and a young Arab-American fighting the good fight to bring to birth a new world from the wreckage of the old. https://twitter.com/i/status/1291170395903553536   The post Why I’m Proud to Be a Jew! (Onward, Comrades, to Victory!) appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

I, for one, believe Steve Pinker.  How could he have known what Alan Dershowitz was up to?  When Dershowitz called on Pinker’s expert knowledge of verbs to get Epstein off, he was just asked by Dershowitz to parse the verbs rape and sodomize. The post HERE’S WHAT I TOLD STEVE PINKER’S HAIRDRESSER WHEN... Read more »

On August 1, a rare in-depth investigative piece appeared on the BBC News website based on credible and serious allegations that UK Special Forces had executed unarmed civilians in Afghanistan. The BBC article was produced →... Read more »

What does it mean when journalists who spent the last two decades promoting wars of aggression on brown- and black-skinned people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen take a knee? The Observer commented: ‘There →... Read more »

Frightening numbers of people still believe that profit-maximising corporate media merely disseminate something called ‘news’. In reality, ‘mainstream’ ‘news’ is chock full of Pavlovian bells, trigger terms designed to shape and control public opinion. When →... Read more »

In his classic science fiction novel, ‘Foundation’, Isaac Asimov posited a future in which ‘psychohistorians’ could predict outcomes based on past history and the large-scale behaviour of human populations by combining psychology and the mathematics →... Read more »

Halfway through the first concert of The The’s ‘Comeback Special’ tour at the Royal Albert Hall in June 2018, singer-songwriter Matt Johnson took to the stage alone with his acoustic guitar and sang, ‘True Happiness →... Read more »

An Englishman never quite gets over the embarrassment of having a body. There he is, a perfectly respectable, civilised head, required to hug and be kissed by relatives, to dance (randomly jerking arms and legs →... Read more »

Any notion that the UK government actually considers that its primary responsibility is to protect the health and security of the country’s population ought to have been demolished in 2020. The appalling death toll that →... Read more »

If consciousness is an ocean, thoughts are waves that can be churned into vast storms. Have you ever woken in the wee small hours, adrift on your tiny raft of awareness, to find yourself confronted →... Read more »

In the June 2017 UK general election, Labour under Jeremy Corbyn came within a whisker of power. If just 2,227 votes had gone the other way, seven Tory knife-edge constituencies would have been won by →... Read more »

The Labour Party have been slammed on social media after refusing to comment on an incident involving one of their own MPs who accused the Metropolitan police of “racial profiling” after they admitted mistakenly stopping her and a fellow black friend whilst travelling in a car in east London on... Read more »

Social media users have today compared the UK’s public broadcaster to North Korean state propaganda after the BBC posted, and then swiftly deleted, a video portraying the Conservative Chancellor Rishi Sunak as a superhero. The bizarre cartoon, which was posted to the BBC News Twitter account and was also available... Read more »

Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn have raised more than £100,000 in just over 24 hours to help the former Labour leader fight a reportedly impending legal battle against the BBC Panorama journalist John Ware. On Wednesday, the current Labour leader Keir Starmer announced that the party would be settling a defamation... Read more »

Norwich City Council have unanimously passed a motion calling on the government to trial a fully-evaluated Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the area in response to the economic shock of the ongoing pandemic. The Labour-led authority passed the proposal put forward by the Green Party on Tuesday night, and leaders... Read more »

Labour MP Rosie Duffield has suggested that she could refuse to condemn racist abuse towards a BAME Labour activist in future after they disagreed with her policy suggestions about strengthening laws on the sale of nitrous oxide. On Tuesday, the Labour MP for Canterbury announced that she would be calling... Read more »

The UK’s public broadcaster, the BBC, have made the astonishing decision not to report the fact that Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party last night reneged on their promise to protect the NHS after voting to keep the NHS on the table for future post-Brexit trade deals. The Tories’ decision to vote... Read more »

Yesterday evening, 338 Conservative MPs reneged on the party’s repeated election promise to “protect the NHS” by voting down a cross-party amendment specifically designed to ensure that our cherished National Health Service was not on the table in any future post-Brexit trade deals. Astoundingly, as of the time of publishing,... Read more »

The Conservative Party have tonight used their 78-seat majority to vote down an amendment designed to protect the NHS and publicly-funded health and care services from being subject to any form of control from outside the UK in a future post-Brexit Trade Deal. The amendment, which was put forward by... Read more »

The London Economic, a progressive new media site which rose to prominence during the 2017 General Election due to its support of Jeremy Corbyn, has been taken over by a Venture Capital firm whose boss has direct links to the fossil fuel industry, Evolve Politics can reveal. On April 7th,... Read more »

Florida congressional candidate Jen Perelman tells ourVoices why she is primarying former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz.... Read more »

Disseminated by allies of the 'Bolsonaro Squad', hate speech is increasingly used to legitimize physical and institutional violence against minorities.... Read more »

The government’s defence review should consider risks of climate breakdown and poverty and not just Russia.... Read more »

Intuition is wrong when it comes to calculating the true cost of basic income – the UK can easily afford it.... Read more »

Say hello to openDemocracy’s special team of editors and reporters investigating threats to the rights of women and LGBTIQ people, globally.... Read more »

Shared action is the key to reducing political polarisation, but how to make it happen?... Read more »

Racist ideas have connected Scottish sectarians with the global far right... Read more »

Exclusive: None of Serco or Sitel's contact tracing staff will be deployed locally, government admits – as councils face new lockdowns and funding shortages.... Read more »

Finally, there is a dataset documenting response to white supremacist violence in the US.... Read more »

Dishing out A-level results in the midst of a pandemic was always going to be hard. That doesn’t excuse a process which has turned into an unprecedented disaster, thrown up arbitrary grades, and dashed the hopes of thousands of young people. But with the poorest hit hardest, is this a case... Read more »

When you live in one of the richest and most lavishly armed countries in the world, and a small number of desperate refugees wash up on your shores, how do you respond? With empathy and hospitality? Or with derision for their reasons for coming to you, and hysterical claims that... Read more »

The UK has entered its worst recession since records began and has the highest Covid-19 death toll in Europe. The primary reason for both is the catastrophic failure of this government over the year so far. Having missed early opportunities to implement testing and tracing – indeed, having ended comprehensive... Read more »

In the staff room at my hospital, feelings of abandonment, hopelessness and scepticism, which became commonplace as the government muddled through the pandemic, have given way to anger. After months of a health crisis in which colleagues have risked their lives, sacrificed all normality, and seen their co-workers become seriously... Read more »

Jeremy Gilbert talks to Erik Davis, scholar of weird culture, mysticism, and the fertile crossover between esoterica and politics. From gnostic revivals to conspiracy theories, the JFK assassination to QAnon – why does there seem to be a sudden resurgence in conspiracy theories, sometimes in the most unexpected corners? Is... Read more »

After months of anticipation and media spectacle, the Democratic ticket for the presidential election on November 3 is finally complete.  Yesterday, Democratic nominee Joe Biden announced that his running mate will be the junior senator from California, Kamala Harris.  In many ways, Harris seems a prudent pick. Not only the... Read more »

While establishment media jumps at the chance to go on refugee safari in the Channel, Ash Sarkar debunks the myths behind anti-migrant sentiment.... Read more »

Nomiki Konst joins Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial to discuss Kamala Harris being picked as Joe Biden’s running mate. Plus, Professor Simon Lewis on climate change heatwaves and Commonwealth Director Mathew Lawrence on Britain’s record breaking recession.... Read more »

Is a revolution happening in Italy? Some said so last week, as the government extended a layoffs ban until December. The plan includes exemptions for in-trouble firms and subcontractors, yet Democratic party-aligned economist Tito Boeri denounced it as an anti-business measure akin to North Korea. This was no rare outburst.... Read more »

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There’s a sickness that comes with the certainty of those who view the world in so black and white, so good and bad, so us versus them terms, that killing is often a morally defensible act. More so, such killing often goes beyond just simple self defense, to a level... Read more »

One effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. is the momentary spotlight it shined on the meatpacking industry. Working conditions inside packing plants were exposed in the sheer number of workers who were infected with the virus. Exact numbers are elusive but thousands of cases have been confirmed along... Read more »

Kamala Harris is the least surprising VP pick since Bob Dole tapped Jack Kemp as his running mate in 1996. Harris is as bland, safe and predictable as Kemp, but she adds little to an already boring campaign and comes with toxic baggage of her own that may repel the... Read more »

August 14, 1945. The day Japan surrendered. I was eleven year old. I was crammed in the back of a pickup packed with other boys and girls, all yelling our hearts out as loud as we could to be heard over the cacophony of honking horns and howling air raid... Read more »

Is it already too late to stop global warming? That question is not asked with thoughts of throwing up hands in despair and giving up. Rather, that question must be asked in the context of mitigating future damage to whatever degree might yet be possible. The context here is that... Read more »

Hollow Resistance: The Antidote to Obama Nostalgia Syndrome The deadly ObamaLust Virus is ironically intensified by the fascist Amerikaner presidency the corporate-imperial Barack Obama helped hatch and empower. Here is an antidote that has passed with flying colors through all the testing trials: Paul Street, Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and... Read more »

Daniel Falcone: You recently stated that it has never been more urgent that we repudiate nuclearism in all forms. What rationales do proponents of this put forth? Richard Falk: It is important to view with some skepticism the justifications offered by the governments of nuclear weapons states for retaining the... Read more »

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – The Queen of Hearts from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland The best way for us to understand Afghanistan is to look at the record of American involvement going back four decades and to look at the... Read more »

Κάθε φορά που μνημονιακή κυβέρνηση προβαίνει σε κάποια συμφωνία «υπέρ των εθνικών συμφερόντων», ως εκ του θαύματος μόνο η Άγκυρα επωφελείται! Εν αρχή ην η συμφωνία της κυβέρνησης Τσίπρα με Ισραήλ και Κύπρο. Από την πρώτη στιγμή, το ΜέΡΑ25 προειδοποιούσε ότι, όχι μόνο ο λαός μας δεν θα ωφελούνταν με... Read more »

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Πρόκειται για παρέμβαση του DiEM25 (αναπόσπαστο μέρος του οποίου είναι το ΜέΡΑ25) που κάνει όλους εμάς που, από τον Φλεβάρη του 2016, παλεύουμε να χτίσουμε αυτό το μοναδικό, ενιαίο, διεθνικό κίνημα να νιώθουμε βαθιά περήφανοι. Φέρνοντας μαζί, ως μέλη του ίδιου κινήματος, μέλη και οργανώσεις μας από την Γερμανία, την... Read more »

Deeply proud of DiEM25’s intervention to avert tensions in the E. Mediterranean. Proving there is no clash between nations, DiEM25’s organisations in Germany, Greece & Turkey issued a manifesto for splendid Peace & Shared Green Prosperity in our region: The perpetrators of war, the profiteers of the fossil fuel industry... Read more »

Πρόσφατα γιορτάσαμε την 46η Επέτειο από την Αποκατάσταση της Δημοκρατίας. Το ΜέΡΑ25 τόνισε, με την ευκαιρία της επετείου, ότι οι Έλληνες δημοκράτες έχουμε υποχρέωση να μην ξεχνάμε πως επέστρεψε η Δημοκρατία στην Ελλάδα: Ως απόρροια της Κυπριακής τραγωδίας που έφεραν εθνικιστικές επιλογές ενός ξενοκίνητου ελληνικού καθεστώτος που άνοιξε διάπλατα την... Read more »

On 15th July, Ben Arc published in Bitcoin Magazine an open letter addressed to me in a bid to convince me that I should re-assess my rejection of Bitcoin as a force for good; as a bulwark for democratising capitalism and paving the ground for socialism. Here is my reply:... Read more »

What comes next? Yanis Varoufakis on capitalism’s crisis and our duty to plan for postcapitalsim 💡 Support DDN: http://www.patreon.com/DoubleDownNews... Read more »

During the early years of the eurozone crisis, I remember gauging its depths by the rapidly diminishing half-life of the celebrations that followed every European Union summit. Premature proclamations that the crisis was over inspired hope, which caused the money markets to rebound. But then, at some point, gloom would unfailingly... Read more »

The Labour MP said she had held a meeting with Dame Cressida Dick over the incident. By The Canary... Read more »

Many travellers have fled nations faced with conflicts that have UK involvement, it is claimed. By The Canary... Read more »

Pupils across England received their A-level results on Thursday, with thousands being downgraded. By The Canary... Read more »

The releases came hours after Interior Minister Yuri Karayev apologised on state television for the indiscriminate use of force by police. By The Canary... Read more »

A US district court has dealt a major blow to Donald Trump’s reckless assault on the natural world. Federal judge Valerie Caproni struck down … Read more By Tracy Keeling... Read more »

The UN said only half of the Lebanese capital’s 55 medical facilities are fully operational and around 40% have suffered moderate to serious damage. By The Canary... Read more »

A statement from the country’s foreign ministry called the normalising of ties between the two countries a dangerous, ‘shameful’ measure. By The Canary... Read more »

I can still remember the first bit of political graffiti I ever saw. It was in the 70s. I can’t have been more than … Read more By John Ranson... Read more »

A public health official suggested making Test and Trace more localised to help reach more people, as he described the centralised system as “ludicrous”.Ivan … Read more By The Canary... Read more »

Gene Kerrigan: 'Countdown to a Christmas like no other'  Independent.ie... Read more »

Gene Kerrigan: 'Desperate' to get a break, after 37 days  Independent.ie... Read more »

Letters to the Editor: Put your faith in doctors  Independent.ie... Read more »

Gene Kerrigan: 'Well, €96k here, €16k there, it all adds up'  Independent.ie... Read more »

Gene Kerrigan: 'Hey, wait now... his car's bigger than my car'  Independent.ie... Read more »

The comics that Cork kids used to read...  Echo Live... Read more »

Gene Kerrigan: SF caught between the future and the past  Independent.ie... Read more »

When this carve-up government fails, there will be meaningful change at last  Independent.ie... Read more »

Philip Ryan: One gamble has paid off, but now Martin has a fight against the odds  Independent.ie... Read more »

The remarks posted as a BLOG (August 13) arose from reading Frank McNally’s  IRISHMAN’S DIARY in the IRISH TIMES of August 6th. They are excerpts from a long and hurried email sent to Jude “McNally is by far the best columnist writing in any daily newspaper in Ireland, if not... Read more »

 I thought we were going to be talking about Micheál Martin’s visit  north and the uproar about A Level results being fiddled with, but Pat as you’ll see throws me a curve ball, which takes the (initial)  conversation in a totally different direction. Watch it and you’ll see  how it all works out… The post JUDE AND PAT TALK ABOUT MICHEÁL’S VISIT NORTH, A LEVEL MARKS AND… appeared first on Jude Collins.... Read more »

Living In England I have visited many beautiful and beautifully kept Anglican Churches and Cathedrals predating the “Reformation”and been welcomed by informed and friendly guideThe memorials and graves of generals and admirals from landed families who benefitted from the suppression of the monasteries, dispossession of English peasants, the murder, pillage... Read more »

 I’ve tried to keep my trap shut as Mark Carruthers manned the Talkback phone lines today, where people were queuing to tell how this bloody algorithm had taken their children’s grades a notch lower and was blocking them from the university of their choice. I’ve tried but I’m out of... Read more »

PERSON 1: Holy shit, this is amazing! PERSON 2:  We could appeal, I suppose. Although these appeal panels are always stacked against the appealer. PERSON 1: Never mind that now. He’s chosen Harris! Biden has announced that Harris will be his running mate! PERSON 2: The poor child – she’s... Read more »

During the last five minutes, I’ve suffered a double air-head whammy. I was tuned to B(ritish)BC Radio 4, where the voice of Donald Trump was heard, and I switched to B(ritish) BC Raidio Uladh/Radio Ulster, where the voice of Stephen Nolan was to be heard.  Now I know what John... Read more »

We were shown into  a closet in Victoria Quay rather than the conference room where we usually met with Scottish Education officials. A section along the back wall was piled high with Higher Still ring binder resource files. Clearly, this was wallpapering with all the subtlety of a JCB. I... Read more »

Since Pat McArt and I will be discussing this topic on Friday, I don’t want to get into it too comprehensively here. But there are a number of points I’d like to put up for consideration between now and Friday, regarding the Sunday Independent/Irish Independent assaults on John Hume during... Read more »

New Zealand hasn’t really got the attention it should for the way it has handled Covid-19. The population is not too different from Ireland – so how come  we’ve done so less well? Then there is the case of the opportunity for a cross-border university linking Derry-Letterkenny-Sligo. Should it happen?  If it doesn’t, who’s to blame? The post Pat + Jude talk about NZ and Covid, and a cross-border university appeared first on Jude Collins.... Read more »

Letter: Will we let this latest power grab slide?  MetroWest Daily News... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Turning a blind eye to meat plants a very old habit  The Irish Times... Read more »

Relative success and relative failure  The Irish Times... Read more »

Why climate decision is important  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Supreme Court calls time on government waffle  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: To keep schools open, the Government needs to start learning quickly  The Irish Times... Read more »

Cancel culture  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Brexit is like having to listen to someone else’s dreams  The Irish Times... Read more »

Fintan O’Toole: Newstalk’s Irish Times ban is a classic case of ‘cancel culture’  The Irish Times... Read more »

Most might think that when Donald Trump proposes a tax break for the rich it is because he wants to give more money to the rich. Fortunately, the NYT has a staff of mind readers who can keep us better informed. Therefore we are told: “Mr. Trump and his advisers... Read more »

Some folks may have seen articles reporting that the United Kingdom’s economy shrank by 20.4 percent in the second quarter. While this number is accurate, it is reporting the quarterly rate of decline. We typically report GDP changes as annual rates, which implies taking the quarterly growth rate to the... Read more »

We are still very much in the middle of the pandemic, with the U.S. seeing tens of thousands of new infections daily, and the world experiencing hundreds of thousands of new infections. However, it is not too early to look at areas where we need to reevaluate public policy, most... Read more »

The NYT had a piece on how the private equity company, Cerberus, is unhappy with the operation of the German bank Commerzbank. Cerberus has a major stake in the bank and, according to the piece, is unhappy that it has not moved more aggressively to cut costs, meaning firing people.... Read more »

I recently realized that Verizon is apparently randomly blocking e-mails to my account.  I have no idea why this would be the case, but it is. Anyhow, I generally respond to e-mails, if they raise real questions or make serious points. If anyone has sent me a note and not... Read more »

Donald Trump and his supporters routinely boast about his great success in reducing the unemployment rate. While the unemployment rate did fall to low levels under Trump, this was just a continuation of the downward trend that had been in place under Obama since 2010. Here’s the picture with the... Read more »

There continues to be enormous confusion about what we should be trying to accomplish in the next pandemic relief package. This is best demonstrated by Republicans’ obsession with getting people back to work, with a mixture of cuts to unemployment benefits and return to work bonuses. Ignoring the questionable economic... Read more »

Donald Trump has repeatedly complained about the crime in major U.S. cities. In fact, he just now decided that it would be clever to send U.S. law enforcement officers to major cities in swing states (Milwaukee, Detroit, and Cleveland), ostensibly because of the high crime there. While he has been... Read more »

I have written before on the post-pandemic economy and how it should actually provide enormous opportunities, but it is worth clarifying a few points. First and most importantly, there is an important measurement issue with GDP that people will need to appreciate. It is often said that GDP is not... Read more »

By J.D. ALT The theme and illustrations of this essay are from the new book “Paying Ourselves to Save the Planet.” It might seem, as we observe the U.S. government “instantly” generating $2 trillion new dollars for direct payments and … Continue reading →... Read more »

By J.D. ALT It’s ironic that, at this moment, when the truthfulness and utility of modern money theory (MMT) is being publicly realized—(and even potentially implemented!)—that its singular vulnerability must emerge as a real concern: hyper-inflation. The most recent thing … Continue reading →... Read more »

By J.D. ALT The last two and a half months I’ve been at work on a new book. As it evolved, I found I was approaching MMT from a new direction—one which made an explanation of MMT much less counter-intuitive … Continue reading →... Read more »

Thornton Parker       In the first part of this series, we explained why MMT should be seen as a political problem rather than just an educational one.  In this concluding part, we will discuss where MMT promotion is most likely … Continue reading →... Read more »

By Thornton Parker        The way a problem is seen can determine how or even if it gets solved.  When the French engineer, Ferdinand de Lesseps, was picked to build the Panama Canal, he saw it as another excavation … Continue reading →... Read more »

By Thornton Parker   The way a problem is seen may determine how or even if it gets solved.  Global warming (GW) and climate change (CC) are going to scramble many ideas about how developed economies work.  At root, GW … Continue reading →... Read more »

By Michael Hoexter, Ph.D. In the final section of this essay, I will look at the combined effect of the conflicts and collusion between the two types of Machiavellian political actors that dominate the higher offices and influential media organizations … Continue reading →... Read more »

By Michael Hoexter, Ph.D. While describing the machinations of the Democratic Party Establishment creates an repellent vision of political scheming and ethical compromise, today’s Republican Party is a few qualitative steps more repellent, more reactionary, and at the same time … Continue reading →... Read more »

(This is a 3-part essay divided here into a total of 4 installments, with the first part divided into two) By Michael Hoexter, Ph.D. Attracting Popular Discontent The basic structure of concentric circles of the discourse and ideological “space” of … Continue reading →... Read more »

Over 20 million people lost jobs and wages during the initial months of the pandemic. In July 2020, the economy was still down nearly 13 million jobs from its February level. The CARES Act, which was signed into law on March 27, 2020, included a number of provisions designed to... Read more »

Most might think that when Donald Trump proposes a tax break for the rich it is because he wants to give more money to the rich. Fortunately, the NYT has a staff of mind readers who can keep us better informed. Therefore we are told: “Mr. Trump and his advisers... Read more »

Some folks may have seen articles reporting that the United Kingdom’s economy shrank by 20.4 percent in the second quarter. While this number is accurate, it is reporting the quarterly rate of decline. We typically report GDP changes as annual rates, which implies taking the quarterly growth rate to the... Read more »

Rental inflation appears to be slowing, especially in high-priced cities. The overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.6 percent in July, the same as the rate in June. The core CPI rose 0.6 percent in July after rising 0.2 percent in June. Over the last year the indexes are up... Read more »

We are still very much in the middle of the pandemic, with the U.S. seeing tens of thousands of new infections daily, and the world experiencing hundreds of thousands of new infections. However, it is not too early to look at areas where we need to reevaluate public policy, most... Read more »

CEPR senior policy analyst and Ecuador’s former foreign minister Guillaume Long talked to This Is Hell about lawfare, the barring of former president Rafael Correa’s party from the ballot, and Ecuador’s turn toward austerity and the IMF under Moreno. Ecuador’s right-wing and its media were “unhappy with progressive governance and... Read more »

The Intercept See article on original site Last month, Joe Biden’s presidential campaign released a sweeping climate proposal calling for 100 percent clean energy and net-zero emissions by 2050. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is working to finalize its 2020 platform. As of now, the platform is more aggressive than the... Read more »

The American Prospect See article on original site Over the past decade, private equity has crept and crawled into all corners of our lives. Everywhere you look across our ruinous, virus-riddled landscape, private equity is there. It is behind many of the understaffed and underprepared nursing homes through which COVID-19... Read more »

There is no evidence that generous unemployment benefits are making it difficult to find workers. The July employment report showed the economy adding another 1,761,000 jobs in July. This follows gains of 2,725,000 in May, and 4,791,000 in June, leaving the economy down 12,881,000 jobs from its February level. The... Read more »

Bob Brigham @ Raw Story: Trump pushes racist birther conspiracy theory against Kamala Harris during White House briefing. Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Trump presses Barr to target his perceived enemies before election. Hemant Mehta @ The Friendly Atheist: For a Few Minutes (and Only a Few Minutes), Pat... Read more »

Doug Mainwaring declares that “both COVID-19 and homosexuality have been oversold to the American public. The consequences have proven to be staggering.” Rick Wiles is now convinced that the explosion that rocked Beirut, Lebanon, earlier this month was a nuclear bomb. It wasn’t. Ann Vandersteel did an emergency breaking news... Read more »

Analysis Some prominent Republicans and institutions are stepping up to denounce the QAnon conspiracy theory after Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has voiced support for the outlandish conspiracy movement, won her primary runoff this week and became Georgia’s all-but-certain next member of Congress. Condemnations of Greene and the conspiracy theories she believes... Read more »

Brad Reed @ Raw Story: Trump openly admits to sabotaging Post Office to boost his re-election chances. Jamie Ross @ The Daily Beast: Trump Calls Fox Business Network to Rage About ‘Mad,’ ‘Crazy,’ ‘Yapping’ Powerful Women. Jeremy Blum @ HuffPost: Tucker Carlson: Kamala Harris Will Deny You A COVID-19 Vaccine... Read more »

Phil Robertson says that Democrats “want to make America hate again”: “[They] form a satanic mob with filthy minds, filthy mouths.” Dave Daubenmire declares that Kamala Harris “is not moderate. She is not a Natural born citizen (Where have we heard that one before?) She is an anchor baby at... Read more »

President Donald Trump has appointed J. Christian Adams, an advocate for voter suppression who has mocked the idea that structural racism in the U.S. is a serious problem, to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Commissioners serve six-year terms. Adams is a former DOJ official who became a star of... Read more »

Trump cultist, QAnon conspiracy theorist, and failed congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine has been tirelessly spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 virus and pandemic on Twitter and on her YouTube programs for months. In July, Lorraine was invited to appear on Australia’s “Today” program to share her views, but shortly after the... Read more »

John Eastman, a well-connected right-wing lawyer and anti-LGBTQ activist, published a column on Newsweek Wednesday questioning whether Kamala Harris meets the constitutional requirement to be vice president. As Right Wing Watch reported in a 2016 profile, law professor Eastman has a long record of activism on behalf of right-wing causes. In his  Newsweek op-ed, Eastman argued... Read more »

Brad Reed @ Raw Story: Kamala Harris is already being given the ‘birther’ treatment in viral Facebook posts. Ken Meyer @ Mediaite: GOP Congressman Blasts QAnon After Trump Congratulates Q-Believer on House Primary Win: ‘No Place in Congress for These Conspiracies.’ Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng @ The Daily Beast:... Read more »

Here are 24 articles (in English) on Reuters website about Ecuador since the country’s super shady “auditor genera” Pablo Celi began demanding (on June 19) that various political parties be banned from participating in the 2021 elections. One of the four parties Celi targeted was Fuerza Compromiso Social which Correa... Read more »

Although few Americans seem to have noticed, China and the United States are currently on a collision course—one that could easily lead to war. Their dispute, which has reached the level of military confrontation, concerns control of the South China Sea.  For many years, China has claimed sovereignty over 90... Read more »

Eid observors buy animals to slaughter   The lamb having its throat slit didn’t want to die. “The animal tried to stand up but couldn’t as the ground was slippery,” said Christine Hafner of the International Fund For Animals on the Today’s Zaman website. Hafner was monitoring the 2008 Eid... Read more »

If you’re like most 16 year old males, there’s a better than average chance that the suit inventory in your wardrobe consists of a total of one. And by suit I mean the matching sport coat and pants that was purchased on clearance from a discount warehouse that has as... Read more »

Americans who grew up with nightmares of nuclear weapons explosions should get ready for some terrifying flashbacks, for the Trump administration appears to be preparing to resume U.S. nuclear weapons tests. The U.S. government stopped its atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in 1962, shortly before signing the Partial Test Ban... Read more »

Working in the service industry is a little like being stuck in a drive-thru going nowhere fast. It seems like a good idea at the time, but the longer you’re there the more you begin to look at yourself in the rear view mirror and question your own intelligence. The... Read more »

Have you noticed recently that things are collapsing? Sure, the rightwing, nationalist rulers of many countries never stop telling us that they have made their nations “great” again. But we would have to be dislocated from reality not to notice that something is wrong―very wrong.  After all, the world is... Read more »

The view of the US government and the pro-Guaidó faction of the opposition was summed up by a New York Times headline and subhead that on January 5 that said Venezuela’s Maduro Claims Control of National Assembly, Tightening Grip on Power It was the last political institution in opposition hands.... Read more »

Frequent Z writer Justin Podur is in the midst of writing what appears to be a young adult-aimed book of fiction (sci-fi perhaps) that seeks to relate what a “leftist,” revolutionary point of view is. Entitled “The Path of the Unarmed,” the story describes the political education of a youth... Read more »

Interview on the pandemic, the election, the word Bernie Sanders needs to stop using, the Harper's letter, the 1619 Project, patriotism, and the greatest social movement in U.S. history... Read more »

Popular support for autocracy runs disturbingly high. Almost one-fourth of Republicans agree “President Trump should close down mainstream news outlets, like CNN, The Washington Post and The New York Times.”... Read more »

Trump is waging a war on truth, decency, our planet, and on working people. If Biden wins, we’ll be at his door on day one, demanding the kinds of structural reforms that advance racial, economic, and environmental justice. But before that, we have to #VoteTrumpOut in swing states... Read more »

“We should understand the roots of this pandemic”... Read more »

“His entire attention is this one issue on his mind: that’s the election. He has to cover up for the fact he is personally responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans. It’s impossible to conceal that for much longer.”... Read more »

Those who have primary responsibility for the multiple crises that imperil us today are hard at work, relentlessly, to ensure that the system they created, and from which they have greatly benefited, will endure... Read more »

Interview on the “absolutely unprecedented scope and scale” of the protests against the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and why Trump's refusal to act to stop the impending catastrophe of climate change makes him “the worst criminal in human history.”... Read more »

Interview on the challenges of responding to the coronavirus, the future of our relationship to technology, and history’s lessons for moving forward... Read more »

Interview on a variety of topics... Read more »

Eddie Conway talks with an attorney about what the impact of this ruling will be in one of the most contentious presidential elections in history. The post Supreme Court ruling prevents 1.4 million from voting in Florida appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Stir Crazy! Episode 78: Today we are joined by sociologist Taure Brown, political consultant Adriel Hampton, and Communications Director for Detroit Action Kenneth Williams. Hosted by Kim Brown. Email us your questions/comments/suggestions at stircrazy@therealnews.com The post Kamala Harris; It’s Complicated appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

In a time when it feels like many of the civil rights gains that activists fought for with their blood and bones and spirits have been lost, where do we go from here? The post Silencing marginalized voices is not ‘good trouble’ appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Oakland native and Berkley professor Brandi Thompson Summers tackles the contradictions wrapped up in Harris’ nomination. The post Thinking beyond representation: progressives weigh Harris’ past appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Stir Crazy! Episode 77: Today we are joined by journalist Justine Barron and TRNN visual producer Andrew Corkery. Hosted by Kim Brown. Email us your questions/comments/suggestions at stircrazy@therealnews.com The post Both Parties Honor the Dark Side appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Deep canvassing can connect rural white voters to issues of racial justice to build a multiracial coalition we need. The post New strategy builds a multiracial coalition in Trump country appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

Liberals praised Harris, Republicans attacked her as a “radical leftist,” but progressives say the selection underscores the need for sustained grassroots pressure. The post Progressives’ problems with Kamala Harris appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

California’s incarcerated firefighters program plays a central role in fighting climate change-fueled wildfires. With exploitative pay and history rooted in colonialism, activists are pushing for a career path for those who serve. The post Reformers Aim to End Prison Firefighters’ ‘Indentured Servitude’ in California appeared first on The Real News... Read more »

USAGM’s pro-Trump CEO Michael Pack is implementing Trump’s anti-immigration agenda and purging VOA and other USAGM affiliates of international staff by refusing J-1 visa renewals, landing dozens of foreign journalists in limbo The post Trump turning state-owned VOA into personal propaganda arm appeared first on The Real News Network.... Read more »

A lawyer's plea for us to think before we lose yet more of our brightest and best is worth listening to.... Read more »

Is Gavin Williamson's time running out?... Read more »

Left Foot Forward's roundup of the progressive news you might have missed.... Read more »

Our economy was in a weak position before Covid. Now mismanagement is steering us towards a Great Depression.... Read more »

Shouldn't they have got hiring a bit earlier?... Read more »

The cuts will make it harder for Brits abroad to get help.... Read more »

The report said the opposite of what they claimed.... Read more »

He feared losing his job at the Board of Deputies.... Read more »

Facebook profits are surging. Is hate speech surging too?... Read more »

The coronavirus crisis and the movement for racial justice have magnified the challenges faced by people released from prison, whose criminal record makes it hard to find a job and even housing, especially women. We feature a new AJ+ series by Messiah Rhodes, whose mother was in and out of... Read more »

In a deal brokered by the United States, Israel and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to fully normalize relations after years of secretly working together on countering Iran and other issues. Under the deal, Israel has also agreed to temporarily halt plans to annex occupied Palestinian territories in the... Read more »

U.S. Records 1,000+ Daily Coronavirus Deaths Again as 2,000+ Quarantined at Schools, Georgia Governor Drops Lawsuit over Atlanta Mask Mandate, CDC Director Warns U.S. Risks Worst Fall in Public Health History, Senate Adjourns Without Deal on New Coronavirus Aid as Millions Face Hunger and Eviction, Coronavirus Cases Surge in India,... Read more »

We go to Bolivia, where opponents of the coup government have entered day 11 of a general strike and nationwide highway blockade to protest the repeated postponement of Bolivia's first presidential election since last year's ouster of Evo Morales by the right-wing coup government of Jeanine Áñez, which was followed... Read more »

As Senator Kamala Harris makes history as the first woman of color on a major party ticket, we host a debate on her record as California attorney general and San Francisco district attorney, when she proudly billed herself as "top cop" and called for more cops on the street. San... Read more »

As Kamala Harris, the first woman of color on a major presidential ticket, hits the campaign trail with Joe Biden for the first time, we play an extended excerpt of her address, in which she blasts President Trump's handling of the economy, immigration, racial justice and the coronavirus pandemic. "The... Read more »

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden Make First Appearance as Running Mates, U.S. Records Highest Coronavirus Death Toll of Summer, NJ Schools Allowed to Reopen as NY Educators Call for Delay to Start of School Year, Florida Sheriff Bans Deputies from Wearing Masks as Coronavirus Cases Spike, New WH Coronavirus Task... Read more »

In her extensively researched new book, "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson argues the United States' racial hierarchy should be thought of as a caste system, similar to that in India. In a wide-ranging interview, she describes how she also looks at the ways Nazi... Read more »

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's selection of California Senator Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential running mate for the November election makes her the first Black woman and the first Indian American on a major party presidential ticket. "It's hard to overstate how historic, how monumental this is," says Aimee Allison,... Read more »

The yellow-brown compost has been heaped into hills taller than the nearby bulldozers. The piles don’t look like pigs, but that’s what they are. Pigs and woodchips. It’s mid-May and thousands of hogs have been killed and tossed in a woodchipper on this farm field in Nobles County, Minnesota. They... Read more »

The recovery of the construction industry in the United States after the lockdowns imposed by the pandemic has been remarkable. Activity in the industry, based on data on workers’ hours, returned since May to pre-lockdown levels in 34 states, and construction spending for the first six months of 2020 was... Read more »

The Lebanese economy crashed into the equivalent of a brick wall sometime in the last few months of 2019. The Lebanese pound (or lira), which was pegged to the dollar and appeared to be stable for well over two decades, started to decline at a rate that threatened the complete... Read more »

Now that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has officially announced former presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate, the only surprising thing about the pick is that his team waited so long to announce it. After all, Harris has long been considered a front-runner for the... Read more »

BATH, MAINE—It’s no coincidence that the first strike in 20 years at Bath Iron Works (BIW) began months into the Covid-19 pandemic. While Maine has one of the lowest Covid transmission rates in the country, the spread of the deadly virus helped spark the strike that has largely shut down... Read more »

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second largest teachers’ union in the country, passed a resolution in support of the Green New Deal at its biennial convention at the end of July. The Green New Deal, federal legislation introduced in early 2019, would create a living-wage job for anyone... Read more »

The 2020 presidential election is not turning out how progressives imagined now that their favorite candidates, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Ma.), have left the race. Left with former Vice President Joe Biden as the de-facto Democratic nominee, progressive organizations like Mijente, a national grassroots hub for Latinx... Read more »

Editor's Note: This article was originally published by Ensia and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. Caribbean corals sprout off Texas. Pacific salmon tour the Canadian Arctic. Peruvian lowland birds nest at higher elevations. In the past 100 years, the planet has warmed in the range of 10... Read more »

In May 2020, a young Black woman kneels in front of riot police with nothing but a face mask. In August 2016, Ieshia Evans calmly approaches riot-armed police and is promptly taken into custody. Over 50 years ago, Gloria Richardson pushes a rifle away from her in apparent exasperation and... Read more »

Part 2 of the interview with Ellen Brown: It’s a War: So says renowned economist Michael Hudson in the concluding part of our recent interview with him. Hudson makes no bones about the deadly serious game being played by the world’s financial powers and their intention to create a new... Read more »

Killing the Host on ‘It’s Our Money‘, July 20, 2020. Ellen Brown: [00:00:00] My guest today is Dr. Michael Hudson, who we’re delighted to have on our Public Banking Institute Advisory Board, and who really should be advising the Federal Reserve and the Treasury, but BlackRock seems to have gotten... Read more »

Remarks given at the 1st ASECU Teleconference ‘Systematic Crises Triggered the Current Pandemic & Progressive Way-Outs, May 8, 2020. Well, I think you’re quite right in organizing the conference to point out that today’s pandemic crisis hastens and intensifies the internal contradictions that have been building up. Many of these... Read more »

A podcast with journalist Paul Jay. The Federal Reserve is directly buying stocks, bonds, junk bonds, mortgages, junk mortgages, all to prop up the value of assets owned by the top 5%. This does not spur much new production or create jobs. Michael Hudson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast... Read more »

An interview on Gary Null’s Progressive Commentary Hour. We dig into debts during the cov-19 period in light of my book ‘…and forgive them their debts.’ Photo by Lopez Robin on Unsplash... Read more »

I spoke with James Ostaszewski and Alexander Reed Kelly, members of the Debt & Finance Working Group of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Topics included governments, debt and my history with democratic socialists. NYC-DSA is working with New York State legislators to enable the... Read more »

[Intro] Welcome to the Knowledge Problem Podcast, the objective of this podcast is to engage policy professionals over thought provoking and sometimes sensitive topics. We aim to bring these professionals together in a way that does not feed the tribalistic narratives plaguing society today. It is my hope and the... Read more »

On 22-24 November 2019, International Seminar on Land, Finance, and De-dollarization was held in Macau, China, which was co-organized by Global University for Sustainability, Lingnan University, Southwest University, and the Federal University of Espirito Santo. 20191124 Michael Hudson – Dollar Recycling and De-Dollarization My book “Super Imperialism” was about how... Read more »

The Radical Imagination: Imagining How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Are Destroying UsImagining How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Are Destroying Us   Jim Vrettos: Welcome once again to the Radical Imagination. I’m your host, Jim Vrettos. I’m a sociologist whose taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and... Read more »

While President Donald Trump forthrightly acknowledged only yesterday that weakening the Post Office will help him obstruct mail balloting this fall, postal workers in the key swing state of Michigan say his mission has been clear for weeks. “It’s a fundamental effort to undermine people’s confidence in this agency and... Read more »

Hilbert adores Marian. He follows her around all day, supervising her gardening, sitting on her keyboard, begging to be brushed at night, and just generally jumping into her lap whenever the opportunity presents itself. Here he is getting a glorious chin scritching while Marian is relaxing on the sofa. What... Read more »

A couple of days ago I wrote that Donald Trump accidentally had a good idea when he proposed doing away with the payroll tax that funds Social Security. This prompted several readers to push back on the grounds that funding Social Security through ordinary income taxes would make it a... Read more »

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, scientists shared telescope images of a galaxy so many light-years away, and similar enough to our own, that its finding challenges prevailing theories of galaxy formation. The bombshell discovery “represents a breakthrough” that shows how “structures in nearby spiral galaxies and... Read more »

Here’s something you might not have seen before: average earnings of blue collar workers over the past few months. Thanks to the rescue bills—primarily the CARES Act—average pay for blue collar workers has gone up 4 percent since February: And what are people doing with this extra money? Putting it... Read more »

Rep. Barbara Lee is a big fan of fellow Californian Sen. Kamala Harris. Last year, Lee was the first high-profile politician to endorse Kamala Harris’ bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. After Joe Biden clinched the top spot in the Democratic primaries, the former vice president’s eventual choice of running... Read more »

Chad Wolf, the acting homeland security secretary, and Ken Cuccinelli, his acting deputy, were not appointed to their jobs lawfully, a government watchdog has found. In a decision released Friday, the Government Accountability Office, a congressional oversight body, determined that Wolf and Cuccinelli were appointed as a result of an... Read more »

Here’s the coronavirus death toll through August 13. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.... Read more »

One day in June, medical student Jasmina Ehab carefully examined a child’s rash. For Ehab, who is in her fourth year at the University of Southern Florida’s Morsani College of Medicine, this was an easy one. “A rash is a rash, and we know what it is once we see... Read more »

Sen. Kamala Harris — chosen on Tuesday by… The post Scrutinizing Kamala Harris appeared first on Accuracy.Org.... Read more »

"President Donald Trump is down in the polls, but was up for a speech at a fracking rig in a COVID-19 hotspot, one with no masks in sight." The post Do the Climate Solutions Offered Meet the Moment? appeared first on Accuracy.Org.... Read more »

"Trump’s plan to eliminate Social Security’s revenue stream would destroy the one source of retirement income that people can count on." The post Despite Promises, Is Trump Aiming to Slash Social Security? appeared first on Accuracy.Org.... Read more »

"You’ve probably heard about this whole TikTok business. Donald Trump has given the company 45 days to either sell itself to an American firm or be banished from our borders." The post If TikTok is Tool of China, Aren’t Facebook, Google and Twitter Tools of U.S. Gov’t? appeared first on... Read more »

"This catastrophe was neither a natural disaster, nor an accident, nor an external act of terror. This explosion was caused by the criminal negligence of men -- encouraged by a political system designed to build clients and not see citizens." The post Lebanon Explosion appeared first on Accuracy.Org.... Read more »

"Should Susan Rice be chosen as Biden’s running mate, it would serve as yet another signal that the likely next Democratic administration would embrace a foreign policy similar to that of Bush and Cheney." The post Implications of Pro-War Susan Rice as VP Nominee appeared first on Accuracy.Org.... Read more »

Aug 4, 2020 is the 10th anniversary of the "Giving Pledge," started by billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. The post Billionaires Promised to Give Away Half Their Wealth, Instead, They Doubled it appeared first on Accuracy.Org.... Read more »

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a leading candidate to be Joe Biden’s running mate, repeatedly and openly defied U.S. Supreme Court orders to reduce overcrowding in California prisons while serving as the state’s attorney general, according to legal documents reviewed by the Prospect. The post Kamala Harris Fought to Keep Nonviolent... Read more »

Several leading scholars are available for interviews on the decisions to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago. The post The Decisions to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki appeared first on Accuracy.Org.... Read more »

Lessons from the New Deal point the way forward in the era of Covid-19... Read more »

Interview on the lessons we're learning during this historic period, Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, and why the liberals are going to get us all killed... Read more »

The fact that a large sector of the economy, the healthcare industry, sees a potential bonanza here … that’s a win for them.”... Read more »

Under Cover of Mass Death, Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech Dystopia... Read more »

Interview about Bernie Sanders’s historic presidential campaign and coronavirus capitalism — President Trump’s response to the pandemic... Read more »

Source: The Intercept I’ve spent two decades studying the transformations that take place under the cover of disaster. I’ve learned that one thing we can count on is this: During moments of cataclysmic change, the previously unthinkable suddenly becomes reality. In recent decades, that change has mainly been for the... Read more »

Interview on how governments and the global elite will exploit a pandemic... Read more »

Sanders faces a decision about whether to continue his increasingly uphill fight for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination... Read more »

The campaign’s animating mission — whether in the field or on digital platforms — is to convince millions of Americans that, contrary to what they have been told, their pain is not the result of a failure of character or insufficient hard work... Read more »

Across the UK, our rivers are being turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12th August 2020 You can judge the…... Read more »

The great majority of people do not want to return to business-as-usual after the pandemic, but our governments are determined to make us do so. By George Monbiot, published in…... Read more »

Coronavirus deals worth billions of pounds have been awarded by the government to “unusual” companies, without advertising or competition. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th July 2020 This…... Read more »

Are Trump and Johnson paving the way for fascism, or for something different, but just as bad? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd July 2020 The anger that…... Read more »

How did wildlife groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th June 2020 Out of this horror comes hope. In the backwash…... Read more »

History, as the government tells it, is one long lie, airbrushing a host of atrocities. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th June 2020 When Boris Johnson claimed last…... Read more »

The government intends to use a US trade deal to bypass democracy, override Parliament and rip down our public protections. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th June 2020…... Read more »

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is not so much a democratic leader as a monarch with a five-year term. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd June…... Read more »

The disastrous collapse of the UK’s pandemic response has been caused by the deliberate evisceration of our health services. Worse is coming. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th…... Read more »