Though the dark futility and carnage of our current wars are rarely publicly acknowledged, we should at least be able to confront the suicidal idiocy of World War I.
The Trump administration accelerates the abandonment of the dollar as the world’s principal reserve currency, which will be fatal to the American empire.
The global ruling elites are preparing for dystopia. And we too should be.
We must face down the corporate capitalism that is destroying humanity and the ecosystem itself. Salvation is in resistance.
Corporate dictatorships, under the ruling ideology of neoliberalism and libertarianism, have stripped away the rights of employees.
Send in the clowns: It’s time for another presidential campaign where politics is farce.
We can resist the radical evil enveloping our lives and our planet only when we acquire the faith that resistance always weakens the oppressor and empowers the oppressed.
The decay of American journalism, captured by corporate power, has marginalized and often silenced its most courageous reporters.
The president and his ancestor in the art of the con, P.T. Barnum, are the true gods of our wealth-, celebrity- and power-obsessed society.
James H. Cone, the father of black liberation theology, understood that the privileged can never grasp religion's true essence.
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