Monstrous U.S. war crimes since the early 1950s have gone down George Orwell's "memory hole." Now, we have no concept of empathy—or reality.
Despite what we may hear from the media, Republicans and Democrats themselves, the Democratic Party is not "the left" but just another slave to the corporate capitalism that is leading us to destruction.
Attaining Martin Luther King's goal of "the radical reconstruction of society itself" will require backing from the nation's heartland.
The U.S. sees itself as a humanitarian City on a Hill, fit to judge other nations while giving itself an "exceptionalist" free pass on violations.
The nation's campaign finance free-for-all is one reason the Electoral Integrity Project ranks the democratic integrity of our elections dead last among the West's democracies.
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