There’s finally a good chance that Congress will repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF)
Answering the Attacks on the Green New Deal: *Not* Implementing it is too Expensive
Compared to Asia and Europe, the United States is a transportation embarrassment
The Geopolitics of Walls: The Sense of Security is an Illusion
The wall addresses a core psychological insecurity. Trump supporters — and many others — feel as if their own privileges are evaporating.
Trump Punts on Syria
The forever war in the Middle East is far from over.
How the Right missed the Real Globalist Conspiracy, of Big Oil to Heat the Planet
There is indeed a new global order. It’s called climate change
All our Dystopias Now: Climate Crisis, Plutocracy and Hyper-Nationalism
(Tomdispatch.com) – The mid-term elections are over, and the Democrats have regained the House, but the rest of American political reality remains intact. Meanwhile, the campaigns barely touched on the most important issues of our time: war, climate change, and the fracturing of the international community. So, let’s consider these larger issues from a different […]
Can Sanders’ House Progressives go International to Block Bannon’s Far Right?
It takes climate change and renewable energy seriously
Was Saudi Arabia’s Assassination inspired by N. Korea, Israel, Russia or US?
(Foreign Policy in Focus) – Saudi Arabia’s apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi might have taken inspiration from Russia and North Korea — or Israel and the United States. Russia, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia are the latest members of a select international club. Assassins Without Borders has roots that go back, in the modern era […]
Complicit, Sidelined, Compromised: The American Elite is not Going to Save You From Trump
(Tomdispatch.com) – During a lifetime of make-believe, Donald Trump has never pretended to be a conventional politician. When he finally decided to make a serious bid for office, he built his presidential aspirations on the flimsiest of foundations: a wild conspiracy theory about Barack Obama’s birthplace. His leadership bona fides were equally laughable, having presided […]