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The CIA Has Been Taking Over for Decades—Even Former Presidents Tried to Warn Us
If you’re looking for proof the CIA and the whole cavalcade of other intelligence agencies working with them have gotten too big, look no further than the DNI’s latest report, writes Lee Camp.
“We Need Medicare for All”: Video Shows People Worldwide Appalled by U.S. Healthcare System
The “excellent” video, said one viewer, exposes the “cruelty and inefficiency of our healthcare system.”
Chris Hedges: The Unraveling of the American Empire
US leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another, a trajectory mirroring the sad finales of other historical imperial powers.
Florida Governor Signs “Unconstitutional” Anti-Protest Bill Into Law
HB1 is anti-protest, anti-public safety, anti-democratic, and anti-American.
Addressing America’s Homelessness and Squalor: What We Could Do If We Cared
The nation’s homeless could be housed for $10 billion a year, less than the price of one aircraft carrier, writes Eleanor Goldfield.
Remembering the “Shock and Awe” Macabre Show of 2003
18 years ago this spring, the American people were subjected to an obscene form of TV disguised as news coverage, as the US brought war to the people of Iraq.
Medicare for All Would Have Prevented Hundreds of Thousands of COVID-19 Deaths
Congresswomen Pramila Jayapal and Debbie Dingell are set to introduce the Medicare for All Act of 2021.
Chris Hedges: Bandaging the Corpse
Biden’s bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America’s death spiral.
“No One is Above the Law”: Rashida Tlaib Rips U.S. Opposition to ICC War Crimes Probe of Israel
“The U.S. should not interfere with its ability to do so,” insisted Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian American elected to Congress.
Chris Hedges: The Age of Social Murder
The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.
Democrats Blocking $15 Minimum Wage as Biden-Harris Bow to Parliamentarian
Are Democrats trying to lose in 2022? Because this is how you lose in 2022.
Biden’s Reckless Syria Bombing Is Not The Diplomacy He Promised
This is not what Biden promised in his campaign and it is not what the American people voted for.
Global Military Spending Soared to Record High in 2020 With U.S. in the Lead
Despite a global pandemic, military spending has reached its highest level in history.
Lee Camp: It’s Time for Major Wealth Redistribution — Yes, I Mean It.
It’s time for major wealth redistribution. It’s time to take it back.
Joe Biden’s First Month Marked by Broken Promises
Joe Biden kicked off his campaign by telling wealthy donors that “nothing would fundamentally change” under his presidency.
Chris Hedges: Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die
Cancel culture is not the road to reform. It is the road to tyranny.
Biden Should Stop Payment on U.S. Funds to Sisi’s Egypt
Sisi’s reign of power has caused vast human rights abuses and a large-scale breakdown of civil society.
Lancet Panel Concludes Medicare for All the “Only Way Forward”
“Our commission has concluded that single-payer, Medicare for All reform is the only way forward.”
Biden Continues Trump’s War on the Press
There are far, far more similarities between the Trump administration and the Biden administration than there are differences.
Press Freedom Groups Urge Biden DOJ to Drop “Disastrous” Charges Against Assange
“Now more than ever, it is crucial that we protect a robust and adversarial press,” the letter states.
The City of Austin is Cutting Police Funding and Using the Money for Housing Instead
Austin City Council also voted to create an independent forensics lab separate from the police department.
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Americans were not always so ignorant of the imperial nature of their country’s ambitions.
Chris Hedges: Papering Over the Rot
The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions—new window dressing will not end oligarchy.
Don’t Be Fooled: The Official Unemployment Numbers Are a Lie
A dive into the murky waters of unemployment.
