Ralph Nader says that when you shut out the civic community, you shut down democracy. He places responsibility for that happening, first and foremost, on the mass media.
The Chris Hedges Report: Media-Led Autocracy
Category: U.S. Congress
Trump Wants Peace in Ukraine, But Why Not in Gaza?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies on the contradiction of Trump pursuing an end to the war in Ukraine while supporting the genocide in Palestine.
VIPS MEMO: To New DNI Tulsi Gabbard
The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) invites new Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to consider its advice and offers her a selection of its past memoranda.
Tariffs & the US Constitution
US Border-Industrial Complex’s Bipartisan Boom
Joe Biden proactively helped build up Donald Trump’s deportation infrastructure and left office as the king of border contracts, writes Todd Miller.
US Schools Hammering Palestine Cause
These political attacks have a chilling effect upon the entirety of public thought and discourse, writes Andrea Brower.
Angling Toward Armageddon
William Hartung reports on a resurgent network of nuclear hawks who want to build more kinds of nuclear weapons and ever more of them.
Trump Is No Traitor to His Class
Arrayed around him in the Capitol’s rotunda for his inauguration were people with more blood on their hands than every serial killer in U.S. history, says John Wight.
LA Fire Cuts … Billions for Israel & Ukraine
At a time when U.S. domestic crises demand urgent attention, Robert Inlakesh highlights unwavering governmental foreign aid for Israel and Ukraine.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Predictable Capitulation of Tulsi Gabbard
By professing support for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after opposing it for years, Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence has just told America it’s the same old imperium after all.