Author: nick

[ad_1] What the Supreme Court's Ruling on WH Ballroom Shows [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Photo by Alice Pasqual The $40 trillion debt point naturally prompted much griping among pundits, many of whom see their job as promoting hysteria in order to justify cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and other popular social programs. As is clear to anyone not on the payroll of the rich and very rich, the debt is overwhelmingly the result of tax cuts, mostly to high earners, put in place by Presidents Reagan, Bush II, and Trump. Unfortunately, confusion on the debt can spread even among the sane. Paul Krugman and Jared Bernstein, two top-notch economists (also friends) had a…

[ad_1] Photo by Tobias Rademacher This is a summer of extreme heat that refuses to end. Record temperatures have fallen one after another across Germany, Czechia, Poland, Denmark, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Italy and beyond. Germany recorded provisional highs above 41.7°C. Czechia reached 41.9°C. Poland broke a century-old mark. Denmark logged its hottest day since records began in 1874. Italy has faced successive waves, with temperatures repeatedly climbing past 40°C in the center and south, red alerts covering much of the peninsula, and electricity demand hitting record levels for July as air conditioning pushed the grid to its limits. Hundreds…

[ad_1] Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. All recent activity affecting ‘public lands’ today seeks to stop ecological stewardship and promote mercantile relationships.  At the core of American settler-colonialism which began in the late 1490s and continues, uninterrupted today. To colonize is to plant or establish a colony in; to plant or settle subjects of a native territory in a remote location, for the purpose of cultivation, commerce, defense – and for permanent residence – conversion of native, natural forest into a computer-model, forest simulation, i.e. “virtual tree plantation.” Here in flyover country federal land managers “just follow orders” handed down from…

[ad_1] Change-or-Die Time for Overpriced Colleges [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Low-wage U.S. workers have faced multiple rising threats to their economic and personal security over the past year. Aggressive ICE actions have terrorized immigrant workers, who are disproportionately represented at the bottom of the corporate ladder. Congress approved the largest cuts in history to public assistance programs that millions of low-wage workers have to rely on to get by. And the Trump administration has attacked diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs designed to expand opportunities for disadvantaged employees. How have the largest employers of low-wage workers responded to these threats? This year’s edition of…

[ad_1] Trump's Narrow Ballroom Win [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Progressive Regression? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] It has been accepted for months that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was instrumental in convincing U.S. President Donald Trump that war with Iran was a good idea. In February, The New York Times reported on the shocking extent to which Netanyahu had access to Trump before the war, in a propaganda blitz which included a detailed presentation selling the idea that the Iranian regime was primed for collapse. Confident in this assessment, Trump would go on to launch the military campaign with the expectation that a people-powered uprising would commence. “To the great, proud people of Iran, I…

[ad_1] Planet Volumes. Ever since Hugo Chávez became Venezuela’s president in 1999 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution, the country has been under siege by the US. The aggression escalated with the kidnapping of its lawful president, part of a larger and accelerating assertion of US imperial power worldwide. The Bolivarian Revolution survived but is in a forced tactical retreat. For progressives outside Venezuela, this presents a difficult question. How should we respond when a government resisting US domination makes compromises that we may oppose, but does so under conditions largely imposed by Washington? This article argues that criticism has its…