Bernie Sanders: On Anti-Semitism, Israel, and the Palestinians
The following transcript, as published by Haaretz, is the full speech given by Sen. Bernie Sanders to the J Street 2017 Conference in Washington, D.C. on February 27, 2017: Thank … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: The Return of American Race Laws
The warmup act for a full-blown American fascism and orchestrated race war is taking place in immigrant and marginal communities across the United States: Racial profiling. Random police stops. Raids … Continue reading
All 6 Oscar nominees for best foreign film wrote a letter denouncing “fanaticism and nationalism among leading politicians” in the U.S.
Here is the text of the letter released by ABC News: .
Abby Zimet: Trump and Putin Great Leaders, Yes?
We’ll Take Our Comic Relief Where We Can Get It Dept: The ghastliness of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conclave and Herr Trump’s abject nightmare of a speech was … Continue reading
Michael Simms: Saul Alinsky’s 13 strategies to take your community back from Trump
Saul Alinsky (1909 – 1972) is generally considered to be the founder of modern American community organizing. Alinsky focused on improving the living conditions of poor communities across America, especially the … Continue reading
Deb Marett: Cease Fire
Leningrad, 1942 “Rehearsal did not take place. Srabian is dead. Petrov is sick. Borishev is dead.” This is an excerpt from a journal entry by the conductor of a rag-tag … Continue reading
Billy Clem: As My Death Approaches
I am gravely ill. Medical tests indicate that my blood and many of my internal organs now fail to perform necessary functions. My body, enervated, starving, looks and feels terrible. … Continue reading
Kareem Tayyar: The Electrical Engineer
He could make a radio out of anything You’d come home and he’d have put one together out of the parts of that old Defunct television set that died one … Continue reading
Shirley Ann Higuchi: Suddenly What Happened to Japanese Americans 75 Years Ago Is Relevant
In May 1942, just six months into World War II, a medical doctor in the U.S. Army went to a notary in Fort Smith, Arkansas and signed over the sale … Continue reading
Daniel R. Cobb: Trump Threatens National Security, Invoke Amendment 25
The Trump administration poses an existential threat to the United States and must be removed from office. We know that seventeen US intelligence agencies concluded that Russia hacked the … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: The Treason of the Republican Presidents
The GOP has a history of striking deals with foreign governments to help it win presidential elections while out of power. Nixon and Reagan did it… and possibly Trump. If … Continue reading
Michael Winship: For America’s Sake, We Need Answers about Russia. Now.
These first weeks of the Trump White House have felt like one of those tennis ball machines run amok, volley after volley shooting at us in such rapid fire that … Continue reading
Dr. Seuss: Political Cartoons
Little-known editorial cartoons by Dr. Seuss re-emerged recently, as critics of President Donald Trump’s order on immigration drew parallels between the author’s warnings seventy years ago and America’s current political … Continue reading
Video: Facing Evil with Maya Angelou
. In this video recorded shortly after Maya Angelou’s death in 2014, Bill Moyers remembers a conference on “Facing Evil,” held in the Hill Country of central Texas. Evil was … Continue reading
