Jan 16Member-onlyThe Martin Luther King They’d Prefer You ForgotToday, when the corporate media reflect on the life of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., you’ll most likely hear about how he was a great civil rights leader, who both practiced and advocated non-violence. And of course, this is true. But it is also true that as the…History4 min readHistory4 min read
Jan 10Member-onlyCognitive Warfare: The Coming Battle for Your BrainLong gone are the days when war was fought to acquire more land. Now the new objective is to change the adversaries’ ideologies, which makes the brain the center of gravity of the human. And it makes the human the contested domain, and the mind becomes the battlefield. So said…War5 min readWar5 min read
Dec 31, 2022Member-onlyFiftieth Anniversary of Nixon’s “Christmas Gift” to the People of North VietnamAs Andy Thompson of the World Socialist Website recently noted, fifty years ago, this month, the United States military carried out one of the most brutal and barbaric attacks on a civilian population in history. Beginning December 18 and lasting until the December 29, American bombers dropped over 40,000 tons…History5 min readHistory5 min read
Dec 9, 2022Member-onlyIs NATO is Cracking Up Due to Self-Inflicted Wounds?For years, we’ve been warned that Vladimir Putin is “doing his best to break up NATO” and why wouldn’t he? …Foreign Policy4 min readForeign Policy4 min read
Dec 2, 2022Member-onlyYou’re Being Lied to About Ukraine “Winning” the War Against RussiaIn 1971, a courageous American named Daniel Ellsberg, risked a possible 115-year prison sentence to expose what came to be known as the “Pentagon Papers.” The material, officially titled, Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force showed that for years the Johnson administration had been…Ukraine War8 min readUkraine War8 min read
Nov 22, 2022Member-onlyChris Hedges Lays Bare the Truth About War the Government and Media Keep from YouThough he has never served in the military, if there’s one person who knows the reality of war and is qualified to talk about it, it’s journalist and author, Chris Hedges. Hedges started out as a Harvard Divinity School student, who took up journalism as means of furthering his work…War6 min readWar6 min read
Nov 15, 2022Member-only2022 Midterm Election Debrief: Advice from Progressive Candidates and Activists for the Democrats. Will… or Can They Take It?On November 8th, Democracy Now! aired a 3-hour election night special, which covered key congressional races and gubernatorial races. as well as ballot initiatives from around the country. Viewers also got a chance to hear from and about progressive and democratic socialist candidates, who won their races, as well as…2022 Elections8 min read2022 Elections8 min read
Nov 9, 2022Member-onlyWhy the Democrats Are Incapable of “Crushing the GOP” the Way Mark Green and Ralph Nader AdviseIn an October 6 opinion piece, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank noted, “Two decades…Politics7 min readPolitics7 min read
Nov 7, 2022Member-onlyReflections on Fascism on 100th Anniversary of Mussolini’s “March on Rome”Fascism has an enigmatic countenance because in it appears the most counterpoised contents. It asserts authoritarianism and organizes rebellion. It fights against contemporary democracy and, on the other hand, does not believe in the restoration of any past rule. It seems to pose itself as the forge of a strong…History9 min readHistory9 min read
Oct 28, 2022Member-onlyGambling with Armageddon Then and Now: Martin Sherwin’s Essential Book on the Cuban Missile Crisis and It’s Warning for Us TodayIt’s fairly common knowledge that world came the closest to experiencing all-out nuclear war between the United States and what was then the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. But how many people know that President Eisenhower was prepared to use nuclear weapons in 1953 during the Korean War…History10 min readHistory10 min read
