According to a global survey of 66,000 people conducted across 68 countries, Earthās people see the United States as the most significant threat to peace on the planet
Paul Street, Open University of the Left, 12-14-2013, Chicago, IL
Never underestimate the ability of establishment journalists to distort reality in accord with the interests of the business elite
One of the many ways in which corporate news media functions to serve concentrated wealth and power is to focus the coverage…
Never underestimate the elitist pessimism and disdain of intellectualsāeven ones on the nominal left. Take the eminent British half- or post-Marxist historian…
The Left commentator Edward S Herman once (applying a phrase from the anthropologist Lisa Peattie) usefully described a key function of the…
It appears distinctly possible, even likely that intelligent life exists on other planets. According to the leading University of California at Berkeley…
“He’s the President Kennedy of Today” Explaining why his hero Barack Obama was not invited to a liberal rally honoring the 50th…
Upton Sinclair observed more than a century ago that "the two political parties are two wings of the same bird of prey.…
As the fog of Barack Obamaās frustrated air war on Syria receded from the headlines in mid-September of 2013, the most recent…
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