Venezuela represents hope to hundreds of millions. That's why it's a security threat to US empire

Marxism For Beginners

Police Malpractice 101: 1. Investigate the victim 2. Create negative profile of victim & put it in the press

Nobody can tell you... There's only one song worth singing

How different today's world might have been...if machine bosses hadn't forced FDR to dump Wallace in '44

Weapons merchants have neither friends nor enemies, only clients

After he dissed Chicago's teachers, those unions endorsing Rahm Rauner should be ashamed of themselves

Let's surround, isolate and provoke China...never mind that they're the biggest owner of our debt

Empire For Beginners

If you see something, record it

Silence is golden

Ain't gonna study war no more

.@RickPerlstein: Act now or forever hold your peace, Chicago

Evict twitter!

Leftists often have a pathological obsession with being defeated. How sad

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. - Juan Montalvo

Dog whistle politics 101

New Atheism is a malleable tool of US neo-imperialism, as we see in Hitchens, Harris and Bill Maher

One Dimensional Man, by Herbert Marcuse, summarized in one paragraph

US wars are nothing more than legalized mass murder

Divide and Conquer 101

Divide and Conquer 101

Literary face-off: Faulkner and Hemingway

Easiest way to reduce social inequality: peg the minimum wage to inflation & productivity gains

Malcolm X: the greatest Horatio Alger story in US history (careful with your fairy tales)

Greetings from the Torture Archipelago

Do the math: Schools, not prisons

NATO's war of aggression in Ukraine would land itself in the docket at Nuremberg

Once upon a time, luxury goods had special taxes and rich folk still went to jail for their misdeeds...

Walt Whitman: Afoot & light-hearted, I take to the open road

Greetings from disaster capitalism

The medical industrial complex doesn't want you to die, but it also doesn't want you healthy

Big Pharma is only interested in lifestyle drugs that are prescribed for years and years

Let's build a society in which it's easier for people to do good

Fear squared and seven years ago...

Greetings from what Michael Harrington called The Other USAmerica

Nobody called it the Great Depression 80 years ago. Nobody is calling it the Second Great Depression today

John Kiriakou deserves a full pardon & commendation for heroism (http://is.gd/CwS3Iq)

Don't Iraq Iran 7/7

Don't Iraq Iran 6/7

Don't Iraq Iran 5/7

Don't Iraq Iran 4/7

Don't Iraq Iran 3/7

Don't Iraq Iran 2/7

Don't Iraq Iran 1/7

Temporal religious power and the nation state have a long and torturous history

She who seeks political power is usually unworthy of it. We need fewer partisan fanbots & more antagonists

Those who seek political power are not worthy of it--they're usually venal or mediocre

You might not be interested in politics. But I can assure you: politics is very interested in you

Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?