Marc Jampole: Trump May Win
How many people voting for Trump have been brainwashed by mainstream news media to dislike Hillary? Yesterday evening I witnessed something frightening. The masterful jazz trombonist Robin Eubanks was performing … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: On Love and Sacrifice
What I hate about Trump, and folks like Trump, is this. He doesn’t debate immigration policy. He hates Mexicans. He doesn’t debate theology. He hates Muslims. He doesn’t hate poverty. … Continue reading
Daniel Burston: Nazis, Israelis and Palestinians — Rhetoric and Reality
On August 6th, 2016, The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement issued a bold and extensive policy statement entitled “A Vision of Black Lives.” Many of the proposals it contains merit … Continue reading
Abby Zimet: Warren Hinckle, Godfather of Gonzo Journalism, Dies
Warren Hinckle, the progressive, flamboyant, truth-telling, hard-drinking editor and writer who earned the moniker “godfather of gonzo journalism” by publicizing the likes of Noam Chomsky, Eldridge Cleaver, Susan Sontag, Hunter … Continue reading
Sharon Doubiago: Maybe the Revolution
I love your poem insisting good will return, we have to have faith. But now is bad. At the Foreign Film Festival Awards the filmmaker of The Road to … Continue reading
W.J. Astore: The Many Purposes of War
Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military theorist who wrote at the end of the Napoleonic Era, is noted for saying that war is a continuation of politics. That saying explains … Continue reading
Video: Bonita Weisman performs “St. Roach” by Muriel Rukeyser
. Improvisational dance artist Bonita Weisman improvises a solo piece based on the poem St. Roach by Muriel Rukeyser. . ST. ROACH by Muriel Rukeyser from The Gates, McGraw-Hill, 1976 For that … Continue reading
Video: Post-War Machismo — Be a Man
. At 15, Dragan Kisin was beating up kids, drinking, and getting in all sorts of trouble. His father had left home to avoid gambling debts, and his mother was … Continue reading
Jill Stein: In Praise of WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a hero. Like Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and other whistleblowers facing government persecution, Assange has sacrificed his personal comfort and safety to bring us the … Continue reading
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers: #NoHoneymoon, A Presidency Of Protest
The task of the movement for economic, racial and environmental justice is much bigger than the presidential election. Our job is to build people power to ensure that no matter … Continue reading
Michael Simms: Four Songs from the Sioux
Behold This is a ceremonial song of the Sioux Sun dance, the three verses being sung by a leader in the ceremony. Where holy you behold in the place where … Continue reading
Video: Crosby, Stills, Nash — Woodstock
We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Sharon Doubiago: Bombed
I lie behind your face looking up in the dark. Am earth. Was me. Am I around the world, precisely you. For a second we know not plane … Continue reading
Robert Reich: The Real Threat to American Sovereignty
“Without a border, we just don’t have a country,“ Donald Trump says repeatedly. For him, the biggest threats to American sovereignty are three-dimensional items that cross our borders, such as … Continue reading
