The press has been neither humiliated nor found out because most of the country still believes the lies they were told and have not seen corrected.
Craig Murray: The Power of Lies
Category: Income Inequality
Chris Hedges: How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
Many of these tactics have been pioneered or refined by Socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative party in Seattle.
US Nurses Union Demands Medicare for All
Bella DeVaan says universal healthcare would close crucial gaps in a wasteful, privatized model that left the American healthcare system ill-prepared for the pandemic.
Great Disorder & Extravagant Lies
For an agenda of compassion that gives hope in the possibilities of a world not rooted in private profit, Vijay Prashad turns to the public-health program of Kerala, India.
UKRAINE: Nonalignment & the Global South
Nontobeko Hlela sees an urgent imperative in rejecting a Cold War mentality of dividing the world along old acrimonious lines.
IMF Loans Forcing Austerity on Crisis-Ravaged Nations
IMF pandemic-related loans are forcing developing nations to implement austerity measures that fuel further impoverishment and inequality, an Oxfam analysis finds.
Labor & Oligarchy: Two Tales from Buffalo, NY
In the same city that produced the first Starbucks union, Sam Pizzigati flags the single largest taxpayer subsidy in the plutocratic history of American professional sports.
US TAX DAY: Taxes & the 15 Richest Americans
An unprecedented trove of leaked IRS data reveals that the very richest pay lower rates than the merely rich, ProPublica reports.
Amazon, Starbucks & a New US Union Movement
To reverse the long-term decline in union membership, John Logan says pro-union workers will need stronger protections.
Now Let’s Do the US Oligarchs
Richard Eskow says Biden laid out a blueprint for responding to American oligarchs and super-predators who dwarf their Russian counterparts in wealth and political power.