Economy

By Julian Zelizer and Karen J. Greenberg ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Officials and election experts are now struggling in a big-time way. How, they wonder, can they effectively address mounting threats — of violence, election denialism, foreign influence, and voter discrimination? Do they run the risk of alarming the public to the point of reducing […]

Donald Trump

Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – At the dawn of Nazi Germany a few weeks after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor, Reichstag president Hermann Göring invited two dozen of Germany’s wealthiest and most influential bankers and industrialists to his home to solicit funds for the upcoming election, according to historian David de Jong in […]

Plutocracy

Can Democracy and Billionaires Coexist? Not on this planet

Sam Pizzigati

( Inequality.org) – One person, one vote. The classic essence of democracy. But what if that one person happens to be a fabulously rich? Does that one person actually have just “one” vote? Can we have anything approaching democracy when some among us are sitting on fortunes grander than the rest of us can even […]

Colonialism

How rich Philanthropists exert undue Influence over pro-Palestinian Activism at Universities

The Conversation

By Fahad Ahmad, Toronto Metropolitan University qne Adam Saifer, University of British Columbia | – (The Conversation) On university campuses across North America, a new anti-war movement has emerged. Camped-out students are pressuring their universities to divest from companies that profit off the Israeli war machine, to cut ties with Israeli institutions and to publicly […]

Climate Crisis

Insurers are Pulling out of Climate Risk Zones, Leaving Communities even more Vulnerable

OtherWords

By Jessica Garcia | ( Otherwords ) – In an era of climate disasters, Americans in vulnerable regions will need to rely more than ever on their home insurance. But as floods, wildfires, and severe storms become more common, a troubling practice known as “bluelining” threatens to leave many communities unable to afford insurance — […]

Climate Crisis

Who will Tell the Story of Regional Climate Disasters when the News Desert Swallows all Local Newspapers?

Tomdispatch

By Jane Braxton Little ( Tomdispatch.com When wildfires began erupting in the Texas Panhandle in February, Laurie Ezzell Brown, the editor and publisher of the Canadian Record, was in Houston on a panel discussing ways in which losing local newspapers represents a danger to democracy. Running the once-a-week Record from the Panhandle town of Canadian, […]

Featured

Turkey Suspends Trade with Israel over Gaza: Solidarity or Politics?

Volkan Isbasaran

Turkey, Israel, boycott, Gaza

Climate Crisis

Degrowth: Avoiding Eco-Collapse

Stan Cox

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Something must be up. Otherwise, why would scientists keep sending us those scary warnings? There has been a steady stream of them in the past few years, including “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency” (signed by 15,000 of them), “Scientists’ Warning Against the Society of Waste,” “Scientists’ Warning of an […]