Tom Engelhardt: Donald Trump Is the Mosquito, Not the Zika Virus
Class of 2016, Tell Us Who We Are Graduates of 2016, don’t be fooled by this glorious day. As you leave campus for the last time, many of you already … Continue reading
Video: Abby Martin interviews Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill Stein
. Jill Ellen Stein (born May 14, 1950) is an American physician, activist, politician and is a candidate for the Green Party’s nomination in the 2016 Election. Stein was the … Continue reading
Video: Noam Chomsky discusses Donald Trump
. In this short clip, Noam Chomsky talks about the reasons for Donald Trump’s popularity and the anger among many white voters that the Republican presidential candidate is exploiting. The … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: The Break-in
for the wives of war veterans there’s no particular way to hold the past in one hand but she knew his medals were in the drawer he never opened she … Continue reading
Sam Hamill: The New York Poem
I sit in the dark, not brooding exactly, not waiting for the dawn that is just beginning, at six-twenty-one, in gray October light behind the trees. I sit, breathing, mind … Continue reading
Ace Boggess: Rocketship X-M
Lippert Pictures, 1950 The more I watch, the less my eyes squeeze with anger at what has become redundancy: man wipes out man- (in this case Martian-) -kind with bombs. … Continue reading
Aviva Chomsky: The Battle for the Soul of American Higher Education
Student Protest, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the Rise of the Corporate University During the past academic year, an upsurge of student activism, a movement of millennials, has swept … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: What Rosa Luxemburg teaches us
Chris Hedges gave this talk on revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg on Friday, May 20, 2016 at the Left Forum in New York City. On the night of Jan. 15, 1919, … Continue reading
Noam Chomsky: The Costs of Violence
Masters of Mankind (Part 2) [This piece, the second of two parts, is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books). Part 1 can be found … Continue reading
Philip Terman: Holocaust Memorial Lecture, 2016
When the Syrian human rights worker Spoke of his prison experience, A girl sitting beside me Was consulting her cell phone, when He began his story about … Continue reading
Jose Padua: My True Love and Other Colors
Just off the exit from the Interstate, the man with the red, white, and blue American flag painted on the wall of his garage has the words Love These Colors … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: Ghost Story
the starlings swirling and loud you’d think the years would put the thing to rest you’d think the words would hurry the drive to silence still it comes and goes … Continue reading
Bill Blum: Donald Trump’s 12-point Plan for America
Surprisingly, there is a coherent set of legal goals in Trump’s ideological scramble. Despite all his chaotic blather and bombast—and notwithstanding his penchant for flip-flops, walk-backs and clarifications—Trump has articulated … Continue reading
Naomi Shihab Nye: Thank you, Bernie Sanders
Even Walt Whitman was confused. Who has rights and who doesn’t? Are white people superior to others? How did we miss this news in grade school, holding Whitman’s words on … Continue reading
