“the time has long passed where it’s OK to stay silent”

The story of how a largely nonwhite, working-class community of 110,000 spawned a vibrant culture of resistance to corporate power

How Can We Recognize Our Friends in the Mixed-Up World of Donald Trump?

For a government that operates on lies and deceptions, the persecution of this activist must be seen as a part of a pattern and practice of criminalizing people who challenge corporate power

We can’t dismiss people because they aren’t as “woke” as we are. That might be a way to feel good about your own political development, but frankly, it’s not a way to actually win.

Movements do not come to us from heaven, fully formed and organized. They are built by actual people, with all their political questions, weaknesses and strengths

Or How the American Political System Changed and No One Noticed

The 2016 Republican presidential primary was rigged. It wasn’t rigged by the Republicans, the Democrats, Russians, space aliens, or voters. It was…

This sort of indiscriminate dump is precisely what Snowden was trying to protect us from

Regardless of how the war ends, Syria has been destroyed and its future is bloody and bleak

Ten facts and observations if you’re tempted to buy in to a “no-fly zone” or “humanitarian intervention” against Syrian, Russian, and Iranian forces

The real purpose behind the much-trumpeted US-planned “liberation” of the Iraqi city, the Syrian military suspect, is to swamp Syria with the hordes of Isis fighters

The world is still suffering the effects of Reagan and Bush, and if Trump were elected, the Tea Party’s granny-starving, cop-loving, global-fracking, immigrant-criminalizing agenda would sail through Congress

The Iraqi government has announced that the campaign to take the large northern city of Mosul back from Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) has begun in earnest

A broad discussion of media, war, activism, the Mideast and more…

Change will happen only if a large portion of the population believe in, and fight for, an environmentally sound and socially just society

Old millennials like me have been active for more than a decade, engaged in the struggle. We’re smart. We’re savvy. We’ve been working for years to protect our planet and communities

If your primary interest is in doing this job correctly, you usually have to give up the access, the money and the audience

His calls for racial voter intimidation on Election Day could explode in all our faces

They intensely dislike and don’t trust the Washington establishment—which Clinton represents—and say Trump is an alternative