As thousands of troops were deployed to Washington, D.C. during Joe Biden's inauguration, Rev. Silvester Beaman gave the benediction, saying: "We will make friends of our enemies. We will make friends of our enemies. The post Will Biden Continue Bombings? appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

"Hesse’s past work defending Google and enabling Amazon’s acquisitions create irresolvable conflicts of interest that must disqualify her from serving in a Biden administration’s DOJ antitrust division or Federal Trade Commission." The post Leading Big Tech Lawyer May Head Biden Antitrust appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

"The trend of the past dozen years is away from ground wars in favor of air wars. This often means more killing, more injuring, and more making people homeless, but with an even higher percentage of all that suffering concentrated on the non-U.S. side. We need to know whether Blinken... Read more »

"One thing is certain: the failure to prevent the Capitol attack is not because of a lack of police powers or anti-terrorism measures. Still, some people have wasted no time hijacking the moment to advocate new domestic terrorism legislation. A lawmaker in the solidly Democratic state of Maryland has proposed... Read more »

"Expanding the U.S. government’s already bloated surveillance state will only bring more terror and harm to the same communities that Trump targeted with his racist policies and rhetoric." The post You Can’t Fight Fascism by Expanding the Police State appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

  "Said Kovalik: 'While making her name by penning a Pulitzer-prize award-winning book inveighing against the evils of genocide -- A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide -- Power went on as Obama’s ambassador to the UN to actually help facilitate quite possibly the greatest slaughter of innocents in... Read more »

"Boyle argues for impeachment as an immediate remedy to address 'the seditious storming of the Capitol' as well as to prevent Trump from 'further illegal activities, like attacking Iran.'" The post Threats of Impeachment, Wagging the Dog as Pompeo and Facebook Join in Targeting Iran appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

"The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would 'guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.'" The post Abolish the Electoral College? appeared first on accuracy.org.... Read more »

Following the Capitol Hill riot which delayed Congress certifying the Electoral College results, Donald Trump was banned by Twitter, Facebook and other big tech corporations. Google removed the far-right user-friendly platform Parler from its mobile app store and Apple threatened the same. The post Trump’s Twitter Suspension Raises Calls for... Read more »

A viral conspiracy theory blends together legitimate critiques with truly dangerous anti-vaccination fantasies and outright coronavirus denialism... Read more »

Republicans keep finding new ways to tell us that they don’t believe in democracy, and we should believe them... Read more »

A great many people did not vote for Joe Biden, they voted against Trump. We have to recognise how narrow this win was... Read more »

Can we imagine a better future? If we stop talking about what winning actually looks like, isn’t that the same as giving up?... Read more »

He has done nothing but campaign for reelection since he became president... 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 »

It is hard to imagine how the government’s handling of the pandemic could have been more catastrophic.   By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th January 2021 Here’s the chilling, remarkable thing that should be inscribed on everyone’s minds: there is no plan. This week, I asked the government’s... Read more »

Brexit isn’t about Europe, and isn’t about the UK. It’s the outcome of a civil war within capitalism. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th November 2020 Where there is chaos, the government will multiply it. Where people are pushed to the brink, it will shove them over. Boris... Read more »

A crucial link in the food chain has been forgotten by the government, exposing us to a potential disaster after the Brexit transition. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 18th November 2020 A few days ago, I carried out a small experiment. I sent almost identical requests to two... Read more »

Unless Biden fights big money, he could pave the way for someone even worse than Trump. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th November 2020 It brought a tear to the eye and a hand to the heart. Joe Biden, in his acceptance speech, called for unity and healing.... Read more »

Privatisation, outsourcing, packed classrooms and a total government failure to make them safe expose schools to deadly levels of infection. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th November 2020 Does anyone in power care? Shocking revelations about the government’s handling of the pandemic are either ignored or dismissed. The... Read more »

England’s response to the coronavirus pandemic now relies on unskilled teenaged call centre workers, taking the place of experienced clinicians. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th October 2020 Until a working vaccine is released and widely used, our best hope of controlling Covid-19 is testing, tracing and isolating... Read more »

The huge amount of public money spent on test and trace has been wasted by incompetent private contractors and executives, with devastating results. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st October, 2020 If you are not incandescent with rage, you haven’t grasped the scale of what has been done... Read more »

The government retreats for billionaires, while smashing down our doors. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th October 2020 The question that divides left from right should no longer be “how big is the state?”, but “to whom should its powers be devolved?”. In his conference speech last week,... Read more »

The BBC amplifies the voices of billionaires, and shuts down those who challenge them. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th October 2020 They don’t want balance, they want possession. The oligarchs who own the newspapers will never accept the BBC, because it does not belong to them. However... Read more »

In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, published in 1770...... Read more »

It's party time in the nation's capital and the Christmas spirit reigns supreme, even if the Texas Republican Party does want to secede from the Union...... Read more »

It was the end of October 2001...... Read more »

As autumn fades and winter looms, the dire predictions public-health experts made about Covid-19 have, unfortunately, proven all-too-accurate...... Read more »

Martin Luther King, Jr., offered this all-too-relevant comment on his moment in his 1967 speech "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?"...... Read more »

As Donald Trump gave in to the demand that the transition process to the Biden years officially begin, the administration and its fossil-fuel allies doubled down on their efforts to implement destructive environmental policies that President Biden might try to reverse...... Read more »

If you have a moment, how about joining two retired officers, Bill Astore and me, Danny Sjursen, as we think about this country’s catastrophic forever wars that, regardless of their deadly costs and lack of progress, never seem quite to end?... Read more »

In the military realm, Donald Trump will most likely be remembered for his insistence on ending America’s involvement in its twenty-first-century “forever wars” -- the fruitless, relentless, mind-crushing military campaigns undertaken by Presidents Bush and Obama in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Somalia...... Read more »

By the end of this year, the White House will reportedly have finally brought home a third of the 7,500 troops still stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq (against the advice of President Trump’s own military leaders)...... Read more »

The U.S. Secret Service will protect former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen members of his family, including extended family members, after the 45th President, defying usual agency regulations, ordered the expanded protections."Trump issued a directive to extend post-presidency Secret Service protection to 14 members of his family... Read more »

James Krapfl, McGill University It's been a rocky ride, but a new U.S. president was just inaugurated. Many are thrilled to be moving on from the Donald Trump era, especially after the raid on the U.S. Capitol by angry Trump supporters. But it might be worthwhile to reflect on one... Read more »

The first half of this Inauguration Day has been devoted, at least rhetorically, to unity. But Sen. Mitch McConnell is still in charge of the Senate Republicans, and he's still Mitch McConnell. The chamber is evenly divided, which does one good thing: It makes Vice President Kamala Harris one of... Read more »

After the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, Fox News critiqued the 46th president's speech, taking issue with Biden's strong denouncement of nativism, racism, and white supremacy – which, they suggested, might offend Trump voters.Denouncing nativism, racism, and white supremacy was apparently upsetting to... Read more »

Donald Trump is the only American president to be impeached twice. This time, he stands accused in a single article of impeachment of "incitement of insurrection" for delivering an incendiary speech on January 6 to an angry mob of supporters, sparking them to storm the U.S. Capitol building to prevent... Read more »

When poet Amanda Gorman took center stage during President Joe Biden's inauguration to deliver her poem "The Hill We Climb," it became immediately clear why she was chosen to precede him on the podium. Only four presidents —John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and now, Biden — have had... Read more »

When a government agency is as punitive, secretive and capricious as the US Department of Justice often is, trying incremental reform can feel about as satisfactory as non-alcoholic beer. That was the tack under Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr., and it almost certainly will be under Biden's choice, Merrick... Read more »

by Thomas Klassen, York University, Canada The end of Donald Trump's dysfunctional tenure in the White House means the start of a relatively normal presidency under Joe Biden. But what does normal even mean after four years of a presidency and a president that have been anything but? Biden emphasized... Read more »

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.Late at night on Jan. 5, the day before President Donald Trump was scheduled to deliver a defiant speech before thousands of his most dedicated supporters, his former... Read more »

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he included in it a list of the colonists’ grievances with the British government. Notably absent were any complaints that the British government infringed upon the freedom of speech. In those days, public speech was as acerbic as it is today. If... Read more »

Interviewed by Mrs. Clinton Monday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi eagerly rose to the bait when Clinton spoke of "her concerns that the outgoing commander-in-chief was compromised by the Kremlin". Setting the stage, Clinton expressed the hope that "we’ll find out who he [Trump] is beholden to, "who pulls his strings". Clinton... Read more »

For more than a decade, a handful of former Israeli politicians and US diplomats identified with what might be termed the “peace process industry” have intermittently warned that, without a two-state solution, Israel is in danger of becoming an “apartheid state”. The most notable among them include Ehud Barak and... Read more »

The attempt to reverse a democratic election in a classic quiet coup in America has now turned ugly and noisy. On the very same day as Joe Biden condemned the coup, he nominated Victoria Nuland as under secretary of state for political affairs: the same Victoria Nuland who clumsily revealed... Read more »

Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s newly appointed National Security Adviser, began issuing orders to Russia two days before his installation. Sullivan urged Moscow to release Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader arrested on his return to Russia on Sunday. Insisted Sullivan: "The Kremlin’s attacks on Mr. Navalny are not just a... Read more »

Medical apartheid is moving at full speed in Palestine. Israel has refused an informal request from the World Health Organization (WHO) to immediately make COVID-19 vaccines available to Palestinian medical workers to avert a health disaster, citing shortages of jabs for their own citizens. The specified reason does not hold... Read more »

In an interview with the British newspaper, The Times, in 2015, former US Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, vehemently denied that exporting democracy to Iraq was the main motive behind the US invasion of that Arab country 12 years earlier. Rumsfeld further alleged that "the idea that we could fashion a... Read more »

Long before he played various roles in the Obama administration, Robert Berschinski was described as among the “rarest of creatures.” For starters, he was an R.O.T.C. cadet at an Ivy League school – Yale – on September 11, 2001, at a time when graduates of elite universities have been conspicuously... Read more »

With the mainstream media still obsessing about the January 6th “violent coup attempt” at the US Capitol Building, the incoming Biden Administration looks to be chock full of actual purveyors of violent coups. Don’t look to the mainstream media to report on this, however. Some of the same politicians and... Read more »

Keir-StarmerDownload The post Keir Starmer, Der Sturmer and the Hottie Israeli Spy: What’s Going On? appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

Journal-January 19, 2021): Essay Contest-$100.00 Prize I just finished reading the second of W. E. B. Du Bois’s three autobiographies, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept. In this journal entry, I would want to do two things: first, propose an essay contest; and second, quote from Du... Read more »

What’s Going On?  –Anon. It was reported today that UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer hired an Israeli spy to join his Shadow Cabinet. London is aghast and abuzz. To quote the inimitable Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On? Two theories are making the rounds. Theory #1.  Starmer (pronouns: schmuck/schnook) is being blackmailed... Read more »

Odyssey Banned for Violence, Sexism; Is this the End of World Classics? At one point, in our short Read More The post The Romanian Left’s (mis)adventures in the realm of idpol and cancel culture (Part II) appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

Leaning left became lately a required Read More The post The Romanian Left’s (mis)adventures in the realm of idpol and cancel culture (Part I) appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

Excerpt: Despite all that has happened this year, I am still extremely relieved and grateful for having my loved ones by my side. The virus may have taken away many things from many people, but I thank God for the fact that my family, friends and the bonds I have... Read more »

Finkelstein comments: I have a long-time correspondent Read More The post From a clever (if idiosyncratic) correspondent appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.... Read more »

Compiled and annotated by Yutaka Yokoyama December 29, 2020 ANTI-WESTERN BBC Africa correspondent Catherine Byaruhanga: “Nashulai … a few thousand acres on the edge of Kenya’s famed Maasai Mara National Reserve … [Nashulai is] one of the few, maybe the only community owned and operated conservancies in Kenya. Here community... Read more »

Jeff Conibear Monday was an unexpected victory. Not, it has to be said, a victory for journalism or free speech, but a significant victory nonetheless for Julian Assange and his family.  The findings of Judge Baraitser in her decision not to extradite:1. Finds that the 2003 Extradition Act governs and... Read more »

Joseph Gerson"Human beings and nuclear weapons cannot coexist."... Read more »

Jake Johnson, staff writer"Biden can cancel all $1.7 trillion of student debt by executive order," said The Debt Collective.... Read more »

Jake Johnson, staff writer"A Republican minority shouldn't be allowed to hold the nation's economic recovery and public health hostage."... Read more »

Brett Wilkins, staff writer"This is a momentous occasion for the millions of Americans who were separated by the ban and those who stood up against this injustice at airports nationwide."... Read more »

Jessica Corbett, staff writer"Today is a good day," declared the SEIU, which had called on the president to immediately oust NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb.... Read more »

Kenny Stancil, staff writer"Essential workers should not have to go on strike for decent pay, and no worker should be threatened for exercising their constitutional rights."... Read more »

Andrea Germanos, staff writer"Our eyes are on you," the group of campaigners said. "The time for lies is over."... Read more »

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I am strongly advised to shut up and say nothing just before my trial. I will however point out three things: 1) These documents are all in the possession of the Lord Advocate. They are held in the Crown Office. That is why we are asking the Crown to disclose... Read more »

UPDATE Some journalists, NGOs and observers registering for my trial using details below are being asked for the case number. This is HCA/2020-06/XM. My trial for Contempt of Court in my reporting of the Alex Salmond trial is on 27 and 28 January at the Court of Appeals in Edinburgh.... Read more »

Following Robin McAlpine’s excellent article, some responded by asking where is the hard evidence of a conspiracy against Alex Salmond? Well, here is some of it, not public before. My trial for contempt of court is now fixed for 27 January. This is an extract from my lawyers’ latest submission... Read more »

A joke someone made yesterday reminded me of a friend I had in the FCO, Emma Nelson, who died terribly young about 20 years ago. I wanted to say a few things about her that occurred to me in the context of the Alex Salmond case. In doing so I... Read more »

Magistrate Vanessa Bararitser walked into Westminster Magistrates Court No.1 at 10.12am this morning with the sunniest smile and most carefree disposition I have ever seen her adopt. Her shoulders appeared visibly lifted. She positively beamed at Clair Dobbin, counsel for the US government, as she invited her to put the... Read more »

I fully expect that Julian will be released on bail this week, pending a possible US appeal against the blocking of his extradition. There was discussion of when and how to make the bail application on Monday, after magistrate Vanessa Baraitser announced her decision not to grant extradition as it... Read more »

It has been a long and tiring day, with the startlingly unexpected decision to block Julian’s extradition. The judgement is in fact very concerning, in that it accepted all of the prosecution’s case on the right of the US Government to prosecute publishers worldwide of US official secrets under the... Read more »

Support for the rule of international law, and for the institutions which uphold it, is one of the principles of this blog. I have therefore always been extremely keen to defend and support the International Criminal Court, despite widespread criticism that it is simply a tool for use against leaders... Read more »

This blog has been silent for three weeks so nothing would stand between the “bold” predictions in my last article, and the proof that they were true. I am in fact neither particularly prescient nor brilliant. To anybody with serious experience of diplomatic negotiation, it was very obvious a deal... Read more »

Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif says America has largely undermined multilateralism over the past years by imposing unlawful sanctions on others.... Read more »

Iran and Turkey have signed three documents to expand transnational rail services linking them to Pakistan, Afghanistan and China, an official says.... Read more »

The drills by the Iranian Army’s Ground Force has continued, with Chinook choppers taking divers to Makran coast waters to attack hypothetical enemies.... Read more »

A global coalition of Muslim organizations have submitted a formal complaint to the UN demanding immediate action against France over the violation of its Muslim citizens’ rights.... Read more »

Explosions from Mount Etna, Europe's largest active volcano, send lava rocks flying into the air and leave orange streams oozing down the slopes.... Read more »

Joe Biden is working on behalf of the white elite to prevent a revolt by the working class,  political commentator Wilmer Leon has said. ... Read more »

It’s inauguration week in the United States, but it looks more like a nation at war.... Read more »

It’s inauguration week in the United States, but it looks more like a nation at war.... Read more »

Iran prevents Saudi Arabia and the UAE from participating in the Conference on Disarmament over the regimes’ war crimes against Yemen.... Read more »

Police officers in the UK who were tipped off about an alleged “illegal rave” showed up to find that it was actually just a group of old-age pensioners queuing for their Covid-19 vaccinations. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Republicans took to social media on President Joe Biden’s first day in office to point out the number of Americans who have thus far died during his presidency – a response to Democrats who blamed Trump for coronavirus deaths. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Former NHL star and Swedish national goaltender Tommy Salo has found himself in hot water after receiving a two-month prison sentence for driving under the influence of alcohol. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The total market value of all cryptocurrencies has lost about $100 billion over the past 48 hours, after the world’s top digital asset, bitcoin, slumped around 10 percent as crypto fever cooled off. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The head of Africa's disease control agency has warned that the continent's fatality rate from Covid-19 has risen above the global average, adding that this is a very "worrying" development. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has defended the UK government’s strategy for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, citing data that he said supported a 12-week dosing schedule rather than the recommended 21-day interval. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

After 12 years of legal proceedings, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia cannot be held responsible for incidents that occurred during the 2008 war in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, rejecting Georgia's claims. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Problems with food supply into Northern Ireland from Great Britain are “clearly a Brexit issue”, Ireland’s foreign affairs minister has said, amid reports of food shortages and “bare” supermarket shelves. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Fans have questioned the NHL's decision after hockey star Alexander Ovechkin and three of his countrymen at Washington were placed on the NHL's Covid-19 protocol list, earning a $100,000 fine for a reported breach in a hotel room. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

CHISINAU (Sputnik) - The Constitutional Court of Moldova declared the law on the functioning of languages, which provides that the Russian language in the country is the language of interethnic communication, unconstitutional, the court's head, Domnica Manole, said.... Read more »

A 5.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Republic of Northern Cyprus near the city of Famagusta on Thursday, the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) said.... Read more »

KIEV (Sputnik) - Rescuers are extinguishing fire in a building that has been converted into a nursing home in Kharkiv, as a result of the fire 15 people were killed and another five were injured, the Ukrainian State Emergency Service said on Thursday.... Read more »

While British Chancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged to provide £4.6 billion in new lockdown grants to support the retail, hospitality, and leisure industry as well as protect jobs through to the spring amid the COVID pandemic, thousands of businesses are still scrambling to receive what the government promised to give... Read more »

BERLIN (Sputnik) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out on Thursday running for parliament or any other political office once she steps down as chancellor.... Read more »

This year's inauguration of President Joe Biden has gone down in history not only because it took place amid an acute global situation, the coronavirus pandemic, but also due to the enormous security measures undertaken.... Read more »

The news comes after media outlets voiced concerns in recent years over Google's failure to share ad profits in online searches as well as plummeting revenues due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.... Read more »

On 20 January Biden became the 46th president of the US and within 24 hours signed 15 executive orders, some of which reversed Donald Trump’s policies. Biden lifted the travel ban from several African countries and returned the US to the Paris Agreement, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and... Read more »

On Wednesday, Joe Biden revealed a new look to the Oval Office, inviting reporters inside to watch him sign a spate of executive orders hours after the inauguration ceremony.... Read more »

by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 11 December 2020 A UK government review into how the Ministry of Defence (MOD) handled relations with the organisation I edit, Declassified UK, concludes the MOD “did not have a policy” of blacklisting us, despite providing evidence that it did. It reveals a deep problem... Read more »

By Phil Miller and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 7 October 2020 Britain’s Royal Air Force has trained 25 pilots from Saudi Arabia how to fly the powerful Typhoon jet and continues to provide instruction on using missiles involved in devastating attacks on civilians in Yemen. The Royal Air Force (RAF)... Read more »

By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 2 October 2020 One of the US prosecution’s key witnesses in the Julian Assange hearing, who claimed that Assange’s risk of suicide is “manageable” if extradited to the US, works for an academic institute that is funded by the UK Ministry of... Read more »

Phil Miller, Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 23 September 2020 UK defence minister admits that training of Saudi Typhoon pilots is continuing despite Riyadh using these British-made jets to conduct airstrikes in Yemen, a country on the brink of famine. Up to nine Saudi pilots currently training in... Read more »

By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 4 September 2020 As British judge made rulings against Julian Assange, her husband was involved with right-wing lobby group briefing against WikiLeaks founder Westminster chief magistrate Lady Emma Arbuthnot made two key legal rulings against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in February 2018,... Read more »

By Phil Miller and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 20 August 2020 The UK military has been quietly building links with the Belarusian armed forces, including providing urban warfare training, despite the British government’s public criticism of Europe’s last dictator, Declassified UK has found.  The revelation comes amid massive pro-democracy protests... Read more »

By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 23 July 2020 In the two years since a British citizen died following a chemical attack by Russian military intelligence officers in southern England, the UK government has licenced £232-million worth of controlled equipment to Russia, Declassified UK has found. Former Russian... Read more »

By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 20 July 2020 Eyewitnesses in Yemen tell Declassified UK’s reporter on the ground about the aftermath of an airstrike that killed a young girl and her grandmother. “At first we suddenly heard an explosion. We saw a light that filled the store... Read more »

By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 14 July 2020 The Conservative government gave over £80,000 to a right-wing lobby group which has paid thousands of pounds in benefits to Priti Patel, now home secretary, and Michael Gove, now cabinet office minister, it can be revealed. The Henry Jackson... Read more »

The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet... Read more »

This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Carroll Doherty, Director, Political Research Jocelyn Kiley, Associate Director, Political Research Baxter Oliphant, Senior Researcher Andrew Daniller, Research Associate Bradley Jones, Research Associate Hannah Hartig, Research Associate Amina Dunn, Research Analyst Ted... Read more »

Despite scores of failed legal challenges, numerous recounts and Congress’ confirmation of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory, a large majority of those who voted for Donald Trump incorrectly say their candidate received the most votes cast by eligible voters in enough states to win the election. Among Trump voters, 40%... Read more »

Nearly seven-in-ten adults (69%) say they have heard “a lot” about the rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when, following a protest earlier in the day, supporters of Donald Trump broke into the Capitol building while the Senate and House were in the process of certifying Electoral College... Read more »

In the wake of the violence and riots at the Capitol on Jan. 6, a growing majority of voters (76%) say Donald Trump’s conduct since the Nov. 3 election is “only fair” or “poor.” In mid-November, 68% rated Trump’s post-election conduct negatively. Currently, 62% rate Trump’s conduct since the election... Read more »

Ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration as the nation’s 46th president, 58% of U.S. adults say they approve of the job he has done so far in explaining his policies and plans for the future to the American people. About four-in-ten (39%) say they disapprove of the job he has done.... Read more »

68% of the public does not want Donald Trump to remain a major political figure in the future. The post Biden Begins Presidency With Positive Ratings; Trump Departs With Lowest-Ever Job Mark appeared first on Pew Research Center - U.S. Politics & Policy.... Read more »

The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet... Read more »

Biden and Trump supporters tell us in their own words about America’s political divisions The post Voters Say Those on the Other Side ‘Don’t Get’ Them. Here’s What They Want Them to Know. appeared first on Pew Research Center - U.S. Politics & Policy.... Read more »

In 2009, progressive organizations were warned by the White House not to pressure conservative Democrats. Biden doesn’t have that control this time. The post Joe Manchin Was Hit With Tough Ad Back Home After Going Wobbly on $2,000 Checks appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Ron Haviv’s photographs reveal the hopes and the troubles in Washington, D.C., on the first day of Joe Biden’s presidency. The post Photo Essay: At Biden’s Inauguration, Empty Streets but Not a Void appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Ataques terroristas não são sinônimo do 11 de Setembro. O Brasil sob Bolsonaro acumula exemplos de terrorismo de extrema direita com ameaças contra a vida. O legislativo precisa dar uma resposta a isso. The post As ameaças contra acadêmicos, jornalistas e políticos no Brasil têm nome: bolsoterrorismo appeared first on... Read more »

Trump’s actions on this one issue outweigh everything else, yet it’s received less attention than many of his tweets. The post By Far the Worst Thing Trump Did Was Flirt With Nuclear War With North Korea appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

The Capitol riot has forced a reckoning inside America’s militant groups. The post What’s Next for the Militias? appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Democrats have an extraordinary responsibility not to blow it now that they are on the brink of unified control of Washington. The post Midterm Curse Awaits Joe Biden, but He Has Had 50 Years to Prepare appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Mobilizações progressistas em Detroit, Minneapolis e Filadélfia impulsionaram a votação do democrata. The post Biden venceu, agora começa a parte difícil appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Now that Trump is gone from office, what’s next? The Intercept’s reporters share their thoughts on the transition of power. The post Joe Biden Is President, but Donald Trump’s Legacy of Violence Looms appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

War photographer Ron Haviv takes the visual pulse of Washington, D.C., after Trump's riot and before Biden's inauguration. The post America’s Fortified Capital Awaits a President’s Inauguration appeared first on The Intercept.... Read more »

Two books bring the history of the civil rights struggle to a modern audience.... Read more »

Young people came out, not because we were excited, but because we were scared. For our lives. For our future. For democracy.... Read more »

Organizations are encouraging people to leave groups like The Proud Boys and hold themselves accountable for harm they’ve caused.... Read more »

The video-chat platform is facing a federal lawsuit for charging a monthly fee to folks who need closed captioning.... Read more »

Biden should follow the lead of the nation’s first twenty-six Presidents.... Read more »

The United States is contributing to the violent attacks on Yemen, while cutting back its humanitarian relief efforts.... Read more »

The civil-rights leader’s words can help us build a democracy that reflects our ideals, not our ugly history.... Read more »

Now that Trump is the first President to be impeached twice, we'll surely see more of his Republican allies slink away.... Read more »

In an effort to maximize profits, many businesses and corporations are cutting ties with Trump and Republicans who have supported the President’s attempted coup.... Read more »

Joseph Gerson"Human beings and nuclear weapons cannot coexist."... Read more »

Jake Johnson, staff writer"Biden can cancel all $1.7 trillion of student debt by executive order," said The Debt Collective.... Read more »

Jake Johnson, staff writer"A Republican minority shouldn't be allowed to hold the nation's economic recovery and public health hostage."... Read more »

Brett Wilkins, staff writer"This is a momentous occasion for the millions of Americans who were separated by the ban and those who stood up against this injustice at airports nationwide."... Read more »

Jessica Corbett, staff writer"Today is a good day," declared the SEIU, which had called on the president to immediately oust NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb.... Read more »

Kenny Stancil, staff writer"Essential workers should not have to go on strike for decent pay, and no worker should be threatened for exercising their constitutional rights."... Read more »

Andrea Germanos, staff writer"Our eyes are on you," the group of campaigners said. "The time for lies is over."... Read more »

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People of color -- whether welfare recipients or immigrants -- are routinely characterized in the United States as shiftless, even parasitic, and not deserving of the social supports of the state. Ethnic Studies scholar Daniel Martinez HoSang argues that in recent years, as the social safety net has been chopped... Read more »

Most of us have a growing sense that something’s deeply wrong with the way that digital data is used to track and monitor us. But most of us don’t realize that the poorest among us are particularly vulnerable. Virginia Eubanks argues that such data is used to criminalize and turn... Read more »

Can an intensely private emotion like shame – for who one is, or what one has done – serve as an impetus for political engagement? Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s writings on Jewish politics, Manu Samnotra [1] ascribes a political role to shame; he argues that shame can motivate people to... Read more »

Many who are concerned with the unfolding climate emergency have pinned great hope on the election of Joe Biden and Democratic control of the Senate.  But, as sociologist Richard Lachmann observes, progressive expectations of Democrat politicians have been regularly dashed.  He argues that a different approach to forcing elites into... Read more »

How did the sixties unfold in Europe? Was it primarily a set of political rebellions? How did revolutionary movements in Western Europe compare with those in the Eastern bloc? Timothy Scott Brown [1] talks about the desires, inclinations, and innovations of sixties radicals. Timothy Scott Brown, Sixties Europe [2] Cambridge... Read more »

The experience of trans people has burst into the mainstream in the last decade, although the struggles of gender variant people are nothing new. Jack Halberstam talks about the politics of categorization, generational differences, radical vs. single-issue politics, and anti-trans feminism. (Encore presentation.) Resources: Jack Halberstam, Trans* A Quick and... Read more »

More than 110,00 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and sent to remote concentration camps in early 1942. Photojournalist Paul Kitagaki Jr. [1] has tracked down dozens of camp survivors and their descendants. Charles Wollenberg has written about several key legal cases provoked by this tragic episode and the... Read more »

Highlights of some of the best commentary presented on Against the Grain in 2020, featuring Caitlin Rosenthal on capitalism, commodification, and slavery; Victor Wallis on workers’ control and revolution; Catherine Squires on Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson; and Ashley Dawson on energy democracy and the transition to renewables. Full-length interviews... Read more »

The failed German Revolution, in which he was a participant, marked the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse for life.  But unlike some of his more pessimistic colleagues in the Frankfurt School, particularly after the rise of fascism, Marcuse did not give up on liberatory possibilities.  In the 1960s, Marcuse became one... Read more »

Republicans took to social media on President Joe Biden’s first day in office to point out the number of Americans who have thus far died during his presidency – a response to Democrats who blamed Trump for coronavirus deaths. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The issue of Jacobin magazine covering the inauguration features a mock icon, complete with a halo around Biden's head, seraphim-like Clintons and angelic killer drones in the sky. Some don't seem to realize it is satire. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

While mainstream media fawned over the fashion choices of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, it was undoubtedly the apparel worn by Bernie Sanders for the inauguration ceremony that warmed the hearts of the public most profoundly. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Left-wing rioters have gathered in Seattle and Portland to burn flags, break windows, and destroy property just hours after Democrat President Joe Biden was inaugurated. Their right-wing counterparts, however, were absent. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

President Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony has triggered countless comparisons to ‘The Hunger Games,’ as viewers found eerie parallels to the sci-fi flick, whose dystopian themes are a far cry from the new POTUS’ “unity” message. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The incoming US envoy to Israel briefly styled himself ambassador to the West Bank and Gaza on Twitter, raising diplomatic eyebrows by reversing his predecessor’s policy of Israeli sovereignty over the Palestinian territories. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

US media are struggling to figure out Donald Trump's influence now that he’s no longer president. Ex-adviser John Bolton urged ignoring him altogether, but Sen. Lindsey Graham argued he’ll dominate the GOP for years to come. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

It’s the Democrats’ ideology-driven policy labeling the opposing camp ‘domestic terrorists’ and not Donald Trump’s legacy that's pushing America closer to a civil conflict, Canadian evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad told RT. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Amazon offered on Joe Biden's first day as president to help speed the US rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations, leading observers to wonder why the world's largest retailer didn't step forward before Donald Trump left the White House. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

You only have to look back at the president’s record during the Obama administration to know that he is Pinocchio Joe – a politician adept at brazenly telling lies, and saying one thing and doing another. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

A parting gift of sanctions from Beijing for some key members of Donald Trump’s administration is China’s way of telling Joe Biden that the US aggression and threats of the past four years cannot be the new normal. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

One of Donald Trump’s major selling points from the outset was his insistence on tackling the special interests responsible for corrupting American democracy. Now he’s left the White House, it’s clear he failed to deliver. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

On his first day in office, Joe Biden declared he’ll dismantle Donald Trump’s 1776 Commission, fully embracing critical race theory. This will ultimately lead to worse racial divides and now it’s up to the citizens to stop it. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

An array of big music stars performed to ring in Joe Biden’s presidency, but they were every bit as unoriginal and underwhelming as he is. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Astronomers may have detected the space craft of an alien civilization, claims a top scientist. But the public are being denied further tantalizing discoveries due to the narrow-minded thinking that pervades academia. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Although the numbers of deaths attributed to the virus in the UK are higher than they’ve ever been, in total, not many more people are dying than in any other cold season. Is the mainstream media finally waking up to this? Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

High-profile Republican Senator Josh Hawley, tipped by some as a future presidential candidate, had to find a new publisher for his book as it became collateral damage in the attack on freedom of speech and ideas. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Joe Biden’s calls for “unity” mean nothing to his most public supporters, the liberal celebs who celebrate their victory by spewing vitriol at Donald Trump and his supporters, and who have no intention of stopping anytime soon. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Police officers in the UK who were tipped off about an alleged “illegal rave” showed up to find that it was actually just a group of old-age pensioners queuing for their Covid-19 vaccinations. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has defended the UK government’s strategy for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, citing data that he said supported a 12-week dosing schedule rather than the recommended 21-day interval. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

Problems with food supply into Northern Ireland from Great Britain are “clearly a Brexit issue”, Ireland’s foreign affairs minister has said, amid reports of food shortages and “bare” supermarket shelves. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The British health secretary has congratulated his colleagues in the National Health Service as the country reached a positive milestone in the battle against Covid-19, but the virus is continuing to spread rapidly across the UK. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

British liberal magazine the New Statesman has found itself under heavy scrutiny and the subject of mockery after ripping off a front cover – almost exactly – from conservative rival the Spectator. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The British education secretary has said schools will be given a two-week warning before reopening, but getting kids back into class is the government’s priority when lockdown is relaxed. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has allegedly proposed that Brussels allows EU countries to shut their borders to UK travellers following the emergence of a more contagious variant of the coronavirus, a report claims. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

In an unlikely admission from a man once dubbed the “British Trump,” Boris Johnson has admitted that he thinks there’s “nothing wrong with being woke,” before quickly describing himself as a man of tradition. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

The UK has reported a daily increase of 1,820 new coronavirus deaths on the country’s worst day of the pandemic, with opposition MPs blaming Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the government for the shocking figures. Read Full Article at RT.com... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Guest Post “Israel cannot be considered a democracy, for it works to advance and perpetuate the supremacy of one group of people, Jews, over another, Palestinians.” (By: Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams) The prominent Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem on Monday defiantly... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky Large parts of the world—outside of China and a few other countries—face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence by governments. That these governments in wealthy countries cynically set aside the... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd Haines is the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing. (Editor’s Note: Avril Haines’ Confirmation Hearing is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, January 19) Even before President-Elect Joe Biden sets foot in the White House, the Senate... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Richard Wolff Since the 1970s, U.S. real wages have largely stagnated. After a century of real wages rising every decade, that stagnation changed the lives of the U.S. working class in traumatic ways. Likewise, since the 1970s, labor productivity grew steadily,... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Guest Post “This is what we have been reduced to: A violent mob. A nation on the brink of martial law. A populace under house arrest. A techno-corporate state wielding its power to immobilize huge swaths of the country. And a... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Richard Wolff “The spectacle of political “leaders” disconnected from basic social realities survived Trump’s defeat.” The spectacle of political “leaders” disconnected from basic social realities survived Trump’s defeat. He and his GOP had shown little grasp of the two great crises... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron On January 5, 2021, the newly elected National Assembly took its seats in Venezuela’s capital. That day the Lima Group released a statement most of its members signed saying that they did not recognize the legality of the... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Medea Benjamin Nicolas J.S. Davies and Marcy Winograd Nuland would be a ticking time-bomb in Biden’s State Department, waiting to sabotage his better angels much as she undermined Obama’s second-term diplomacy. Who is Victoria Nuland? Most Americans have never heard of... Read more »

This post is originally published on Citizen Truth by Guest Post Samantha Power has been an outspoken advocate of US humanitarian intervention, promoting the Iraq war and defending human rights abusers like Israel and Saudi Arabia. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) President-elect Joe Biden has selected longtime Democratic insider Samantha... Read more »

“Profits before lives” is the unspoken motto of the establishment parties at every level.... Read more »

The sudden closure Monday of the Heights Hospital follows 21 hospital closures in 2020 across the United States, many of which were thrust into acute financial crisis by the COVID-19 pandemic.... Read more »

In an act of political censorship, Canada’s “newspaper of record” has refused to publish a letter from WSWS Chairman David North answering its smear.... Read more »

The ruling is a devastating blow against Highway England’s campaign to defend “smart motorways.”... Read more »

Teachers, transit and other workers in New York City denounced Tuesday’s police attack on striking warehouse workers and are calling for unified action to fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and poverty wages.... Read more »

This is the founding statement of the Chicago Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee. Join our committee at wsws.org/edsafety. Attend and help build for our next meeting this Saturday, January 23, at 12 p.m. Central Time.... Read more »

The agreement was reached a day before the BTU took part in last week’s phony “Day of Resistance” protest aimed at appealing to Biden and the Democratic Party.... Read more »

Donald Trump announced 144 acts of clemency in his last 24 hours in office, including a pardon for one of his closest fascist advisers, Stephen Bannon.... Read more »

The Oregon Cares Fund revived criteria similar to the racist “one drop” rule to determine eligibility to receive financial aid.... Read more »

In the aftermath of the deadly Jan. 6 insurgency, reports identified “a Pentagon official” as having blocked requests for increased security and the use of the National Guard. In particular, there was a call between between Chief Steven Sund of the Capitol police in which he asked for the use... Read more »

President Joe Biden is moving at a sprint, and while his list of top, Day One priorities did not include reproductive freedom, he’s not ignoring that issue, either. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s prepared remarks to the World Health Organization executive board include that Biden “will be revoking the Mexico City Policy in the coming days.”... Read more »

The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Leading Off ● Senate-by-CD: With Democrats officially regaining control of the Senate on... Read more »

President Joe Biden may be viewed by some as a moderate figure, but he came into office with a raft of big promises and the knowledge that he needs to move quickly. For one thing, the whole state of Washington, D.C., on this Inauguration Day—what with the military protection following... Read more »

Donald Trump's parting words to a smattering of his supporters just before leaving the White House for the last time were telling. "We will be back in some form," Trump promised them. It is now critical that we turn our attention to making sure that can never happen through a... Read more »

Glory, glory. It was a beautiful, if cold, day in Washington, D.C., as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were inaugurated. Let’s take a look at a few images of the lovely ceremonies their team put together despite the pandemic precautions observed—and at some of the beloved figures... Read more »

Forums of the conspiracy theory known as QAnon went berserk Wednesday as their delusional dreams dissolved into dust while the completely obvious took place: Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. Here's what QAnon-ers expected to happen, according to NBC News reporter Ben Collins:... Read more »

Wednesday’s inauguration ceremony made strides in history for a number of reasons. Not only did America just inaugurate the first female vice president, the first-ever Black, and South Asian vice president, but this presidential inauguration also featured the country’s first national youth poet laureate. Poet Amanda Gorman was featured in... Read more »

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden will sign a broad executive order mandating that the United States rejoin the Paris climate agreement and restore greenhouse gas limits that Donald Trump has weakened. Gina McCarthy, Biden's national climate adviser, told reporters Tuesday, "We know rejoining [Paris] won't be enough, but... Read more »

In order to raise its geopolitical influence, Russia has been making efforts identifying mega infrastructure projects such as nuclear power and energy, natural resources exploration and talks consistently about increasing trade with Africa. On the other hand, Russia primarily needs … The post Russia’s Financial Strategy for Africa appeared first... Read more »

Early in the pandemic, “trust the science!” could actually be used in a debate without attracting derisive laughter. But as the flip-flops, mistakes and, yes, lies have accumulated, a consensus seems to be forming that the health care authorities are … The post Why Hardly Anyone Trusts the Virus Experts... Read more »

Will the COVID-19 vaccine become mandatory? That’s a question many are asking these days and, by the looks of it, the answer may well be yes — although as I’ll explain later, I suspect the harms of the vaccine will … The post Fauci Now Says COVID-19 Vaccine May Become... Read more »

Cuban blood left its stamp on the conscience of the world after the Angolan Wars of 1975-1988.  Corporate politicians are united in their desire for us to ignore this reality. Fed up with foreign wars, Portuguese officers overthrew Prime Minister … The post Remembering Cuba’s Commitment to Angola’s Liberation Movement... Read more »

With over 800 million people, rural India is arguably the most interesting and complex place on the planet but is plagued by farmer suicides, child malnourishment, growing unemployment, increased informalisation, indebtedness and an overall collapse of agriculture. Given that India … The post Farmers’ Protests Reflect Existential Crisis of Indian... Read more »

New York Times admits schemes could lead to “a dystopic system that would limit the rights of people who have been careful to avoid infection and are unable or unwilling to be vaccinated” *** Several more countries have indicated that … The post Barrage of New Countries and Airlines to... Read more »

New peer-reviewed study of adverse events following MMRV vaccines highlights the urgent need for independent research on vaccine safety and the importance of informed consent and vaccine choice. *** As health officials strive to brush off as “coincidences” … The post Vaccine Injury Reporting Systems ‘Utterly Inadequate,’ Independent Researchers Say... Read more »

We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in modern history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the flow of events since January 2020 has been blurred. Worldwide, people have been misled both by their governments and the media. The post The 2020 Worldwide... Read more »

The misuse of the RT-PCR technique is used as an intentional strategy by some governments, supported by scientific safety councils and by the dominant media, to justify the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, the destruction of the economy with the bankruptcy of entire active sectors of society,... Read more »

It’s urgent not to return to the previous status quo. It’s time for creative thinking and bold action. The post Open Letter to the Biden Administration on the Need for a Pandemic Pivot appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

King was right: We need a multiracial movement to repair our country's deep divides. Here's where public scholarship plays a role. The post How We’re Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Legacy appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Trump didn't get here on his own. Many have enabled him, especially the billionaires who funneled money his way and then stood by as he damaged our democracy. The post Trump and His Many Billionaire Enablers appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Congress let mandatory paid leave requirements expire at the end of 2020, sparking calls for universal leave benefits to protect workers and their customers from the pandemic. The post Grocery Workers Call on Employers to Put Public Health Above CEO Profits appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Despite our sharp divisions, a majority of Americans are united behind many policies to combat poverty and reduce inequality. The post Biden Should Build on Bipartisan Support for Hiking the Minimum Wage and Taxing the Rich appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The ForeverTrumpers are challenging the Constitution. They should be penalized for their efforts. The post Knives Out: Boycott, Purge, and Prosecute appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

We need a decisive break from the previous century of US policy toward Iran, which has been based on domination. The post Biden Must Do More Than Rejoin the Iran Nuke Deal appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

The former intern and member of the IPS family was a bright intellectual light who is already sorely missed. The post Tommy Raskin: An Exception to All the Rules appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Our task ahead: preventing a deeply unequal world from recreating pre-pandemic business as usual. The post In 2021, Let’s Ring a Global Alarm — on Inequality — That Everyone Can Hear appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.... Read more »

Historians are shaking their heads as media talk about January 6 as "unprecedented"; while shocking and dispiriting, it has layers and layers of precedent that need to be learned and engaged, if we are ever to actually have the racial reckoning that corporate media are forever insisting we've already had.  ... Read more »

The $2,000 check is indeed far from a perfect plan to help ordinary Americans, yet if it is the only plan currently on the table, many in corporate media are inclined to leave it there.... Read more »

Media who egged on Trump's candidacy, trivialized his venality and normalized as extreme-but-within-range his and his party's every anti-democratic outrage, are poorly placed to take principled umbrage when that juggernaut takes the course that everyone and their mother said it would.... Read more »

"Just as we know that trickle-down, giving money to the rich, doesn't help—we know long-term unemployment hurts. A lot of the people that are unemployed six, eight, ten months, they may never work again."... Read more »

A reflection of the sorts of conversations we hope have offered some voice or context or information that you might not have heard elsewhere, or that might help you assess the news you are hearing.... Read more »

While we await the day that Trump's face and voice are no longer at the top of every newscast, it ain't over til it's over. And harms he does as a lame duck are harms nonetheless.... Read more »

Workers in fields, factories and hospitals, endangered by the pandemic, are now held up as pawns, as some lawmakers look to make workers' health and safety a "tradeoff" for Covid relief.... Read more »

"Critical Race Theory [is] basically the idea that we still have problems with structural racism, and we don't get away from those problems by not talking about it, by having the 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil' approach."... Read more »

Trump's obviously suppressive executive order has been largely shrugged off by media that ought to be sounding the alarm.... Read more »