(Tomdispatch.com) – In the Americas, the Trump tsunami has swept across both continents and the “pink tide” of progressivism has all but disappeared from the southern half of the hemisphere. In Europe, with the recent exception of Spain, the left has been banished to the political margins. In Africa and Asia, socialism has devolved into […]
Trump appointee Bolton inventing a new “Axis of Evil,” including Iran, to put US on War Footing
(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Bolton’s broadsides against Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela hint at ambitions for much more dangerous geopolitical conflict — and nothing short of a new Cold War. If you’re in the market for a troika of tyranny, Donald Trump, John Bolton, and Mike Pompeo certainly fit the bill. Or, if you’d […]
How Progressives can build on Trump Catastrophe to Remake America
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