Coronavirus Proves It: We Need Medicare For All
Health care rationing isn’t what awaits us in a single-payer system. It’s happening now in our failed for-profit system.
Opinion
Voter Suppression Alive and Well on Super Tuesday 2020
You might remember voter suppression from being a big issue in, well, pretty much every American election ever. And Super Tuesday was no exception.
China’s Coronavirus: A Shocking Update. Did The Virus Originate in the US?
Japan, China and Taiwan reports on the origin of the virus.
The Coronavirus Panic Exposes the Pathology of Nationalism
For years, scientists have warned about superbugs and other infectious agents borne out of industrial agricultural practices or unleashed by climate change. The fears of a new disease with no Read More…
The Iowa Fiasco Is the Death Knell of a Failed 50-Year Experiment
By Amy Goodman The Iowa caucuses are monumentally important in the selection of presidential candidates in the United States. The question we have to ask is, Why? As this goes Read More…
Three Reasons Trump Ordered Soleimani’s Killing
Trump killed Soleimani because he could, because he wanted to reassert American military dominance—and because he thinks it can help his chances of reelection.
Bernie Sanders Has All the Right Enemies
For the United States, oligarchy is the elephant—and donkey—in the room. Only one candidate for president is willing to name it.
Medicare for All or Profits for a Few
On a level democratic playing field, the for-profit healthcare industry’s fear mongering would gain little traction, as its talking points are easily refuted.
WTO Shutdown: What Now and What Next
We remember Seattle 1999 in a moment when the world is exploding with people’s uprisings.
Robert Pollin: The Emerging Divide Between Sanders and Warren on Medicare for All
The growing chasm between Sanders’ and Warren’s “Medicare for All” plans increasingly highlights which candidate is genuinely serious about fighting for universal healthcare, with the release of Warren’s extremely convoluted, regressively funded, and loophole-ridden so-called “Medicare for All” plan.
How Western Media Bias Allows Israel to Getaway with Murder in Gaza
Blinded Palestinian journalist exposes Israel’s increasing violence against media.
John Kiriakou: What Was This CIA Officer Thinking?
Given Langley’s intolerance for whistleblowing, the current case now in the headlines has a couple of curious features.
With a Planet on Fire, This Is What It Means to Enter Emergency Mode
The climate crisis is an unprecedented emergency. How we react to the climate crisis will shape centuries and millennia to come.
Nathan J. Robinson: The Prospect of An Elizabeth Warren Nomination Should Be Very Worrying
The differences between Warren and Sanders are critically important…
Edward Snowden’s Julian Assange is an Unfamiliar Julian Assange
There is an unquestionable contradiction between Snowden’s opposition to Assange’s arrest and the rhetorical games he plays with Assange’s character in his memoir, Permanent Record.