If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business community, the energy corporations and many others, to try to frighten the population into opposing it - claiming that if they have it, all sorts of terrible things will happen, like you won't be able to heat your home, or whatever the story is.

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

Activism spawned by Sanders campaign is beginning to make inroads into electoral politics. Under Barack Obama, the Democratic Party pretty much collapsed at the crucial local and state levels, but it can be rebuilt and turned into a progressive force. That would mean reviving the New Deal legacy and moving well beyond, instead of abandoning, the working class and turning into Clintonite New Democrats, which more or less resemble what used to be called moderate Republicans, a category that has largely disappeared with the shift of both parties to the right during the neoliberal period.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.