“This is an absolutely devastating development on the precipice of the next administration,” said one journalist. Journalists and other critics of how money influences U.S. politics expressed alarm and disappointment in response to Friday reporting that shortly after the nation’s latest election, the research nonprofit OpenSecrets had to lay off …
Read More »The United States: A Push Toward Moral Decline, Political Extremism, Political Divisions and Violence?
“Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of a private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. …
Read More »What the US Air Force Doesn’t Want You to Notice on Election Night
As the warring ruling class seems to be pushing for nuclear brinkmanship, on this election night let us not be distracted. Much significance will happen at the end of Election Day, and a countdown will begin at 11:00 p.m. PDT on November 5th. While everyone’s attention will be on who …
Read More »Harris And Trump Want US Hegemony Over The World To Continue
Both the leading candidates Trump and Harris have almost identical agendas of promoting US imperialist interests. But equally fail to take note of significant shifts in global politics. On November 5, the people of the United States will head to the polls to elect their next president and legislators. The …
Read More »Post-Election Truths: The Things That Won’t Change. No Matter Who Wins
“If voting could ever really change anything, it’d be illegal.”— Thorne, Land of the Blind (2006) After months of handwringing and mud-slinging and fear-mongering, the votes have finally been cast and the outcome has been decided: the Deep State has won. Despite the billions spent to create the illusion of choice culminating in the …
Read More »Today’s Toxic Political Rhetoric Draws from a Well of Racism in Our Media System
The United States needs new public media policies to redress a history of racism and xenophobia. In communities across the nation, millions of immigrants are living in harmony with native-born residents, with neighbors, coworkers, and friends collectively caring for each other. Yet we rarely see those stories uplifted on the …
Read More »Empire’s Overseers: The Two-Party Trap Of Blackface Imperialism
The U.S. political system is perpetuated through the facade of choice. The false belief that we have the power to decide who our political leaders will be and what policy the government will implement, is one cultivated to manufacture compliance and quell the revolutionary spirit of the masses. The U.S. …
Read More »Democrats and Republicans Agree to Ignore Massive US Debt Before Election
The US Republican and Democratic parties have essentially agreed to ignore the size of the country’s public debt and budget deficit, writes The Wall Street Journal. Rather than discussing the issue of debt, the respective presidential campaigns have become opportunities to divide American society further. According to estimates by the …
Read More »The Next President Needs a Foreign Policy Reality Check
Whoever wins the White House in November will be forced to make stark U.S. foreign policy choices. On top of ongoing conflicts in Europe and the Middle East and rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific, the next administration will inherit structural domestic and international obstacles that have been mounting for decades. …
Read More »War and the Constitution
Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions should be addressed in a national debate over the U.S. military involvement in Ukraine and Israel. Sadly, there …
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