George W. Bush and the Forever War | William Rivers Pitt

George W. Bush, Painting. By Dan Lacey. Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) March 12, 2017 (Truthout) -- With Washington, DC, now transformed into a perpetual nonsense machine, it was easy to miss the George W. Bu ...

Extreme Vetting, But Not for Banks | Matt Taibbi

Trump proves he is a tool for Wall Street after all Feb. 3, 2017 (Rolling Stone) -- Donald Trump, the man who positioned himself as the common man's shield against Wall Street, signed a series of ord ...

Get Ready For The First Shocks Of Trump's Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klein

Hurricane Katrina, Aug. 29, 2005. (NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Jan. 24, 2017 (The Intercept) -- We already know that the Trump administration plans to deregulate markets, w ...

Building the Institutions for Revolt | Chris Hedges

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jan. 15, 2017 (Truthdig) -- Politics is a game of fear. Those who do not have the ability to make power elites afraid do not succeed. All of the movements that opened up the democ ...

We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump | Sarah Kendzior

Sarah Kendzior Having studied authoritarian states for over a decade, I would never exaggerate the severity of the threat we now face. But an American kleptocracy is exactly where president-elect Tru ...

Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here | Cornel West

Cornel West by DW Nance. Taken during the #BernieInAL Rally with Bernie Sanders in Birmingham on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 18, 2016. (CC BY-SA 4.0)Trump’s election was enabled by the policies ...

It’s Worse Than You Think | Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges. Photo by Chris Graham. ucobserver.orgNov. 11, 2016 (TruthDig.org) -- Widespread social unrest will ignite when Donald Trump’s base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when this ...

The Rejection of Hillary’s Wall Street Globalization Project | Diana Johnstone

Hillary Clinton official Secretary of State portraitNov. 9, 2016 (CounterPunch.org) -- “There’s no place like home.” That’s the lesson. Even when home is Kansas. The real meaning of this election is ...

The U.S. Department of Clinton | Kimberly Strassel

The latest emails show that State and the foundation were one seamless entity Aug. 25, 2016 (Wall Street Journal) -- This is the week that the steady drip, drip, drip of details about Hillary Clinton ...

Spacetime Ripples and the Human Condition | Caleb A. Scharf

NASA/JPL/U. of Arizona Our species just stepped into a cosmic future, yet we still starve and fight each other Feb. 18, 2016 (Scientific American) -- The announcement of the first detection of stormy ...

Nine Lessons From Third Avenue's Liquidation | Mohamed A. El-Erian

Dec. 13, 2015 (Bloomberg) -- Third Avenue attracted considerable attention last week with the announcement that it would restrict withdrawals from its high-yield Focused Credit Fund. And rightly so: ...