The move to rescind the post-9/11 military authorization was a rare victory for Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee, a long-time war critic ( Read more... )

Capitalism Asks Starving Poor Masses to "Voluntarily" withhold their Appetite in the Name of the Free Market to Protect Price Stability.

Grains piled on runways, parking lots, fields amid global glutIowa farmer Karl Fox is drowning in corn ( Read more... )

Capitalism Promises Human Suffering Will Be Bearable .

‘Deaths of Despair’ Are Surging Among the White Working ClassResearchers who sounded the alarm on increasing white working-class mortality blamed the trend Thursday on economic upheaval that created a web of social issues so tightly interwoven that even successful policies would take years to ( Read more... )

The former oil executive’s apparent reluctance to be Trump’s secretary of state could be a sign that he knew he’d be serving in a sham administration

There is a charitable reading of Rex Tillerson’s interview with the previously obscure Independent Journal Review. When the secretary of state told the IJR that “I didn’t want this job, I didn’t ( Read more... )

First, a quiz: What is the most important crisis in the world today?

A.) President Trump’s false tweets that President Barack Obama wiretapped him.

B.) President Trump’s war on the news media.

C.) Looming famine that threatens 20 million people in four countries.

Kind of answers itself, doesn’t it?

“We are facing the largest humanitarian ( Read more... )

Political System Beyond Saving. Nation is Done Forever.

Why Do So Many Americans Fear Muslims? Decades of Denial About America’s Role in the World.

There’s been lots of attention-grabbing opposition to Trump’s “Muslim ban” executive order, from demonstrations to court orders. But polls make it clear public opinion is much more mixed. Standard ( Read more... )

President Donald Trump’s phone calls with international leaders caused at least two diplomatic incidents before he picked a Twitter fight with Iran on Thursday ― bringing the U.S. into spats with three nations key to American interests in less than a week.

Trump’s actions have not only caused rifts with countries that are often hostile to the U.S ( Read more... )

Exclusive: Heads of parliament’s main political parties issue unprecedented call opposing Ted Malloch, who likened his goal to ‘bringing down the Soviet Union’


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Future Aliens to Study the Cause of The Collapse of Human Civilization. The Cause: Humans.

Federal Reserve Bankers Mocked Unemployed Americans Behind Closed Doors

In 2011, unemployment was at a near crisis level. The jobless rate was stuck around 9 percent nationally, an unusually high number due to the continuing effects of the financial crash.
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Is Not You America is Me... No, is You.

Post-Election Survey: Democrats Can Still Reach Trump Voters
The study by Working America, shared exclusively with The Nation, finds that many Trump voters are up for grabs-but also points to a lack of progressive infrastructure.As Donald Trump’s popularity with white working-class voters became vexingly ( Read more... )