"The emptiness of language is a gift to demagogues and the corporations." - Chris Hedges Our cultural illiteracy is our inabilit...

Bob Mould is undeniably in the midst of a ferocious late-career tear.  Bob Mould might have been having a self-deprecating chuckle at hi...

His giving appears narrowly tied to his business and, now, his political interests.   Since the first day of his presidential campaign, Do...

This is the $1 million question lately, isn’t it? We’ve progressed as a society beyond some dark chapters in our history; periods of v...

I believe a solid portion of the population is waking up to the reality that the hyper-individualistic system we were born into is actuall...

As is often the case with e-mail polemics focused on purported welfare abuse and taxpayer outrage, the "New American Way of Life...

The tragedy in Flint is a symptom of a larger shift in American political economy. Today, it is normal to blame government deficits for so...

The problem isn’t that background checks don’t thwart bad guys — in fact, they’ve stopped 2.4 million gun purchases by prohibited person...

It’s exactly when the problems are complex and daunting that quick fixes have their special lure. People don’t like feeling daunted. The...

Consistently high levels of hunger and food insecurity have cost the U.S. healthcare system close to a $1 trillion since 2008 alone. The r...

The Democratic National Committee is luring corporate lobbyists with VIP rewards. Reversing a previous position that sought to limit corpo...

If we are going to place the blame for the increasing need for public assistance on anyone, let us place it where it rightfully belongs;...

According to the documents, during one five-month stretch, 90% of those whom the U.S. government killed by drone strike were unintended ta...

“I think there’s this fantasy world of gunplay in the movies, but it doesn’t really happen that way,” said retired Army Sgt. Rafael Noboa ...

A predictable gun lobby talking point in the aftermath of yet another mass shooting is that "mass shootings occur where guns are b...

President George Washington, as Commander-in-Chief, leading a combined force of state militias against the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. T...

"Everyone is working together and in unison and that's the true spirit of the city and its residents." Nearly 1,000 people...

It was July 1977 when Exxon's leaders received this blunt assessment, well before most of the world had heard of the looming climate...

Identifying Trump as a fascist is accurate, but not enough. What is necessary are analyses in which the seeds of totalitarianism are made ...

Seeking official apology, Faisal bin Ali Jaber says, 'Imagine that your loved one was wrongly killed by the U.S. government. Imagine t...

We have accumulated over $10 trillion in goods trade deficits since NAFTA. Our lived experience tells us the 99% are getting burned by ou...

Mother's Day honors a progressive feminist, inclusive, non-violent vision for world community. At first glance, Mother's Day app...

  #notpp There's no such thing as free trade. Corporations go around bottom feeding at the expense of the working class. Another sad...

Based on the six tunes on  Emergency Broadcast , the future certainly looks bright for Before We Get Buried.  Hailing from Austria, Befor...

A moral component is currently lacking in all platforms in high-frequency trading, derivatives, and dark pools in today’s electronic glob...

"In their eyes, we don’t deserve to live like people in the rest of the world,' said the victim ahead of his ultimate death, ...

Crusaders massacering Jews in Rhineland Christians should not be insulted by the facts of history. All people of faith should be inspir...

In effect, the federal government has been subsidizing contractor misconduct with our tax dollars. Rodney Bridgett was killed when a pie...

All of these changes are shifting Earth into a "new state" that is becoming less hospitable to human life, researchers said. H...

2 Trillion dollars later and hundreds of thousands dead or displaced, the world is predictably less safe for the west than it was - and j...

The U.S. is the undisputed world leader in incarceration, as it is the world leader in military dominance.  On December 10 - International...

Inside the ‘Christmas village’ of Yiwu, there’s no snow and no elves, just 600 factories that produce 60% of all the decorations in the wo...