Lauren McCauley: As Green Party Nominee, Jill Stein Says She Wants to Assume Mantle of Sanders’ Revolution
The Green Party convention in Houston, Texas reached its climax August 6 with presidential nominee Jill Stein calling on the American left to turn its back on the “two corporate … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: The Men Who Fought the War
The Vietnam War lives in kind of a fog just off our left shoulder. It hovers there, will not go away, demands to be seen. But we don’t look. It … Continue reading
Bernie Sanders: I Support Hillary Clinton. So Should Everyone Who Voted for Me.
The conventions are over and the general election has officially begun. In the primaries, I received 1,846 pledged delegates, 46% of the total. Hillary Clinton received 2,205 pledged delegates, 54%. … Continue reading
Sharon Doubiago: God the Father, the Magi, the Dead Sea
You are sitting bare bottomed on the shores of the Dead Sea 1300 feet below sea level looking back at the Christian Palestinian Arab you’ve just learned is your … Continue reading
Video: Rev. William Barber’s Speech at the Democratic Convention
. In what many observers have praised as the best speech of the 2016 Democratic Convention, Reverend William Barber, head of North Carolina’s NAACP, asks us to embrace “a moral … Continue reading
Video: Hillary Clinton’s full speech at the 2016 Democratic Convention
. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton closed out the final night of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. .
Josie Glausiusz: Blood Brothers — Palestinians and Jews share genetic roots
Confronted by the recurring violence sweeping over Israel, it can be easy to overlook the things that Jews and Palestinians share: a deep attachment to the same sliver of contested … Continue reading
Chris Hedges and Robert Reich debate “Who should Bernie voters support now?”
In his speech at the Democratic National Convention, Senator Bernie Sanders urged his supporters to work to ensure his former rival wins the presidential race. In this video, Amy Goodman … Continue reading
Michael Moore: 5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win
Friends: I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I gave it to you straight last summer when I told you that Donald Trump would be the … Continue reading
Adam Johnson: US-Led Airstrike Kills as Many Civilians as Nice Attack–But Gets Scant Coverage in US Media
A coalition airstrike reported on Tuesday that killed at least 85 Syrian civilians—one more than died in the Nice attack in France last week—wasn’t featured at all on the front … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: My War as a Clarinetist
“One time, the band played a welcoming ceremony for these grunts – and I mean they walked right out of the bush and into “Stars and Stripes Forever.” John Samuel … Continue reading
Sharon Doubiago: Bagdad, April 17, 2003
I wake in the night to my father, the end of the world again. Lightning strikes, rain pours down our bombs. I confess I want to live. I want—bomb … Continue reading
Nika Knight: Riot Police Swarm Cleveland as FBI Tells Protesters Not to Show at the Republican Convention
Authorities in Cleveland, Ohio, are adding fuel to an already “combustible” atmosphere, some activists say, as the city readies extra jail space and courtrooms and shuts down a local university … Continue reading
Sam Hamill: True Peace
Half broken on that smoky night, hunched over sake in a serviceman’s dive somewhere in Naha, Okinawa, nearly fifty years ago, I read of the Saigon Buddhist monks who stopped … Continue reading
