Reader voices: Stop attacks on Fourth Amendment
The times, they are a-changin, singer Bob Dylan wrote in 1964. Fast-forward to our present day and the times are still changing, only not in our favor.
Does inequality have a silver lining?
An insider is spilling the beans on the great unsaid in charitable circles: You can't ignore inequality and hope to fix an unequal world.
Progressive Latin American integration advances
In spite of the death of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and other reverses, the "Bolivarian" process of integration in Latin America is advancing.
Mandela – schmaltzy icon or revolutionary leader?
Sooner or later the news will break that Nelson Mandela has died, and the frenzy whipped up by the media about 'what will happen next' will resume.
Hear them - the unemployed
Unemployment, joblessness, and the devastation they bring to every worker everywhere is endemic to capitalism.
Reza Aslan, FOX News, and Islamophobia
I thought of Sartre's "Anti-Semite and Jew" when I heard about the recent FOX News television interview with Reza Aslan.
New York voters want a mayor with a heart
The priority of a billionaire mayor is to protect the interest of billionaires. That is why the people of New York City want a mayor who will move the city in another direction.
"We've got a long way to go" for decent health care
Recently I have had the misfortune of visiting the emergency room twice - once with my father, who had had a stroke, and once as a patient, due to a dislocated knee.
Toshi Seeger, mother, activist, filmmaker, dies at 91
The wife of Pete Seeger passed away overnight on July 9th. She was a mother, organizer, activist, filmmaker, and essential part of her husband's work.
When capitalism can’t
Today, there are hundreds of millions of people around the world who are and remain permanently in the "reserve army of the unemployed."
