Liberalism, which Luxemburg called by its more appropriate name—opportunism—is an integral component of capitalism. When the citizens grow restive, it will soften and decry capitalism’s excesses. But...
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We live in a two-tiered legal system, one where poor people are harassed, arrested, and jailed for absurd infractions, such as selling loose cigarettes—which led to Eric Garner being choked to death b...
The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we present our history from the perspective of the winners, from those in p...
The Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution, which were established to protect us from unwarranted intrusion by the government into our private lives, may still technically be law but they hav...
That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and...
Speculators, meanwhile, have seized control of the global economy and the levers of political power. They have weakened and emasculated governments to serve their lust for profit. They have turned the...
Real life, our own life, is viewed next to the lives of celebrities as inadequate and inauthentic.
No one who lives under constant surveillance, who is subject to detention anywhere at any time, whose conversations, proclivities, and habits are recorded, stored, and analyzed, can be described as fr...
Five months after Zoran's disappearance, his wife gave birth to a girl. The mother was unable to nurse the child. The city was being shelled continuously. There were severe food shortages. Infants, li...
The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'- Seka Milanovik
Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more fu...
On the first night of the program. She waltzed around the set topless. She asked what asparagus was and said, Rio de Janeiro, ain’t that a person? She referred to East Anglia as East Angular, thought...
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, wrote the cultural critic Neil Postman, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes...
We extract one hundred tons of coal from the earth every two seconds in the United States, and about seventy percent of that coal comes from strip mines and mountaintop removal, which began in 1970.
We do have a grand strategy, says Zeese, who was the spokesman for Ralph Nader’s 2004 presidential campaign. Nonviolent movements shift power by attacking the columns that hold the power structure in...
W. Bush’s life is a case study in the insidious affirmative action for the rich.
U.S. military spending, which consumes half of all discretionary spending, has had a profound social and political cost. Bridges and levees collapse. Schools decay. Domestic manufacturing declines. Tr...
Trump is not an anomaly. He is the grotesque visage of a collapsed democracy.
Those who resist are relentlessly self-critical. They ask the hard questions that mass culture, which promises an unachievable eternal youth, fame and financial success, deflects us from asking. What...