Mandy Smithberger: How The Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract
Washington has already spent at least $2 trillion on its war in Afghanistan alone, and the corruption, waste, and failure associated with those expenditures was (or at least should have been) mindboggling.
Sandra McPherson: Richard Milhous
He was ill-favored and uncraved and yet had we known
his secret life we would have perceived his lyingas a form of gentleness…
Kathy Kelly: I am an Eyewitness to the Horrors of the US Forever Wars
Mainstream media seldom help us recognize ourselves as a menacing, warrior nation. Yet we must look in the mirror held up by historical circumstances if we’re ever to accomplish credible change.
Kristin Henderson: A Feminist Alternative to Trump’s Chest Beating on Iran
If there’s ever to be genuine and just peace between the two nations, diplomacy must be the priority, and Iranian civil society must be acknowledged and respected.
Rebecca Gordon: What’s Wrong With the Republicans?
The roots of much of the turmoil in the current Republican Party are centuries old. They go back, in fact, to the twin crimes that have helped shape this country from its very beginning: slavery and imperial expansion.
John Atcheson: The Influence of Liars and the Failure of Corporate Media
The press is no longer free. It is enslaved by capitalists who would rather make money than tell the truth.
Aesop: The Frogs Ask for a King
Once upon a time, the Frogs were discontented because they had no one to rule over them: so they sent a deputation to Jupiter to ask him to give them a King.
Timothy Joseph: What the Roman senate’s grovelling before emperors explains about GOP senators’ support for Trump
The Roman Senate declined from a long-held position of authority to become a body almost wholly reliant on the whims of the emperor.
Patricia Spears Jones: an American haze
Trumpeter lilies argue the loudest scents — you could wrap
a fiesta with that smell
Sylvia Taschka: Trump’s America shines bright for Europe’s radical New Right
Trump has helped make the New Right’s way of looking at things much more politically and socially acceptable – in a way none of its members had likely dared to dream before the election of November 2016.
Abby Zimet: Well done, Private Bone Spurs
The special forces hadn’t told Trump about the raid earlier because they worried he’d leak it.
Richard Briffault: What is ‘dark money’? 5 questions answered
With the 2020 campaign season upon us, “dark money” is again in the news.
Paul Christensen: The Rain It Raineth Every Day
They say the average cloud weighs about the same as eighty elephants. A big storm such as now darkens the sky overhead must be an infinite parade of elephants milling around in the dark gray pastures above us.
John Samuel Tieman: Great Again
The death of the empire wasn’t difficult
to record. The 6 o’clock news ended
with the usual uplifting bit, a disabled
veteran got a medal….
