Abby Zimet: Ideas As Dangerous As Bullets
Among the latest ungodly alternative facts issuing like toxic fumes from the White House is their brazenly skewed (and woefully misspelled) list of terror attacks the media allegedly failed to … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: Crimes of the Trump Era (a Preview)
The 25/8 News Cycle Is Already Rolling, But the Looting of America Hasn’t Really Begun It started in June 2015 with that Trump Tower escalator ride into the presidential race … Continue reading
Majid Naficy: Truth and Falsehood
I read in Egyption papyruses That Truth and Falsehood were brothers. One day Truth borrowed Falsehood’s dagger But lost it by misfortune. Falsehood took the case to court, Claimed the … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Make America Ungovernable
Donald Trump’s regime is rapidly reconfiguring the United States into an authoritarian state. All forms of dissent will soon be criminalized. Civil liberties will no longer exist. Corporate exploitation, through … Continue reading
Greg Thielen: The Republican Party — A Dangerous Ship of Fools
You know, I have to be completely honest, and this is coming from a person who lived through Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombing and the two attacks on the World … Continue reading
Video: Do political protests make a difference?
. Millions of people across America are resisting Trump’s policies. Do our protests make a difference? Can they be translated into changes in our institutions? What are the next steps? … Continue reading
Frederick Douglass: If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress (1857)
On August 3, 1857, Frederick Douglass delivered a “West India Emancipation” speech at Canandaigua, New York, on the twenty-third anniversary of the event. Most of the address was a history … Continue reading
Video: Resist — How to Triumph in Trumpland
. Based on decades of her writing and research, psychologist and community activist Glenda Russell gives us a quick summary on how to use Trump’s election as a springboard to … Continue reading
Naomi Shihab Nye: Ted Kooser is My President
When I travel abroad, I will invoke Ted’s poems at checkpoints: yes, barns, yes, memory, gentility, the quiet little wind among stones. If they ask, You are American? I will … Continue reading
Abby Zimet: The Hottest Places In Hell
The crowds of protesters turning up “loud and present” outside courthouses Tuesday to protest Supreme Court choice Neil Gorsuch were not the only people fiercely opposing the flood of atrocities … Continue reading
Daniel Burston: The Confabulator in Chief
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and … Continue reading
Hannah Arendt: On the use of lies as a political strategy
In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: American Psychosis
Reality is under assault. Verbal confusion reigns. Truth and illusion have merged. Mental chaos makes it hard to fathom what is happening. We feel trapped in a hall of mirrors. … Continue reading
Bill Moyers: Donald Trump’s Demolition Derby
We’re a week into the Trump administration and it’s pretty obvious what he’s up to. First, Donald Trump is running a demolition derby: He wants to demolish everything he doesn’t … Continue reading
