Politics&Culture

By Laura Hood | – Results are still rolling in but it looks as though Prime Minister Boris Johnson has secured a big victory in the British general election. He looks set to have gone from a minority government to a very large parliamentary majority. Projections based on exit polling and early results indicate his […]

Politics&Culture

Why are there so many Mass Protests in Today’s World but so Few real Revolutions?

The Conversation

By Peter McPhee | – We live in a world of violent challenges to the status quo, from Chile and Iraq to Hong Kong, Catalonia and the Extinction Rebellion. These protests are usually presented in the media simply as expressions of rage at “the system” and are eminently suitable for TV news coverage, where they […]

Civil Rights

What can today’s Activists learn from the Summer of Love and the New Left?

contributors

Ira Chernus | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – It’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. What better place to celebrate than that fabled era’s epicenter, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, where the DeYoung Museum has mounted a dazzling exhibition, chock full of rock music, light shows, posters, and fashions from the mind-bending […]

Immigration

ADL Director Pledges to Sign Up For Muslim Registry

contributors

ADL Director Jonathan Greenblatt pledged today that he would sign himself up for a registry of foreign-born Muslims.

Economy

8 Plutocrats out-earned 3.6 mn Working Poor & 7 Other Headlines You won’t see in MSM

Juan Cole

(By Paul Buchheit) The following are all relevant, fact-based issues, the "hard news" stories that the media has a responsibility to report. But the business-oriented press generally avoids them. 1. U.S. Wealth Up $34 Trillion Since Recession. 93% of You Got Almost None of It. That's an average of $100,000 for every American. But the […]

Bill of Rights

Christian Sharia Law: Iowa Governor’s Proclamation Destroys Separation Of Church And State

Juan Cole

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media

CBS Taps Colbert To Replace Letterman, Limbaugh Bursts Into Flames

Juan Cole

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Climate Change

BP Permitted back into The Gulf Despite all the Damage Done

contributors

(By Sarah Lazare) Four years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, oil still washes up on the Gulf Coast shore, and residents and cleanup workers face health hazards from the millions of gallons that spilled and British Petroleum's chemical dispersant that followed. Yet, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that BP — after pleading guilty to […]