Wealthy donors and corporations have too much power in elections, according to Americans in a national poll. The Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision remains unpopular with two-thirds of them.
United States citizens must empower themselves to fight back against an increasingly authoritarian Trump administration as well as the Democratic wing of the uniparty, argues Ralph Nader.
Natalyie Baldwin asks the British author about the Soviet collapse, the 1990s, Vladimir Putin’s governance, the rise of a new cold war and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions.
Democracy has nothing to do with the chokehold that the warfare state has on the American body politic, writes Norman Solomon.
Project Esther is more than just a desperate attempt to salvage a crumbling Zionist narrative — it is part of a broader authoritarian shift in U.S. politics, says Tariq Kenney-Shawa.
The U.S. took advantage of a changing regional and domestic environment to make a favorable arrangement for itself this time. But the notion that it can drag Lebanon into the pro-Israeli orbit of the Gulf will prove illusory.
The U.S. imperium is effectively spoiling for decisive confrontations with any power that threatens its crumbling primacy.
If a large chunk of the public can be persuaded that a man who is incapable of finding the door is “sharp as a tack,” they can be made to believe a lot of other things too, writes Jonathan Cook.
The United States confirms it has no regard for international law or a genuine rules-based order.