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The Real Lesson of Afghanistan Is That Regime Change Does Not Work
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies The trove of U.S. “Lessons Learned” documents on Afghanistan published by the Washington Post portrays, in excruciating detail, the anatomy of a failed policy, scandalously hidden from the public for 18 years.…
After the Argentina debacle, the IMF endorses weakening capital controls in Ecuador
The IMF is backing a tax reform bill in Ecuador that will enable capital flight and further austerity. Lara Merling for openDemocracy Over the past year, a rebranded IMF returned to Latin America with promises of loan agreements that would…
Why people vote for politicians they know are liars
Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol for The Conversation Britain recently elected a prime minister who unlawfully shut down parliament to escape democratic scrutiny and who tells blatant falsehoods whenever it suits him. Boris Johnson casually denies the presence of media…
Hundreds of Thousands Take to Streets in All 50 States With a Simple Message for Congress: ‘Time to Impeach and Remove Trump’
“This is what democracy looks like.” By Jake Johnson, staff writer – Common Dreams Hours before the expected House vote on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets across the United States…
Six Reasons Elizabeth Warren Should Volunteer to Be Bernie Sanders’ Running Mate
Why in the world should Elizabeth Warren choose to run for vice president? The obvious answer that can save you the time of reading further or, you know, thinking, is my blatant sexism. Clearly, every time I’ve supported female candidates…
Haywire and his Author: An Interview with Thaddeus Rutkowski
By Jhon Sánchez I met Thaddeus Rutkowski more than twenty years ago when I was a newcomer to this country. At that time, I was taking ESL classes and went to a poetry reading at a bar by Union Square—It…
There is an antidote to demagoguery – it’s called political rewilding
This form of radical trust devolves power away from top-down government, often with some very unexpected results By George Monbiot for The Guardian You can blame Jeremy Corbyn for Boris Johnson, and Hillary Clinton for Donald Trump. You can blame the Indian…
Our Vanishing World: Birds
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, it is estimated that the total number of passenger pigeons in the United States was about three billion birds. The bird was immensely abundant, as illustrated by this passage written by the famous…
Courts Blocked Trump’s Public Charge Rule…For Now, But Fear Still Remains
By Jhon Sánchez Daniel* may be deported even though he had a legal sponsor to stay in the USA. When he arrived in this country, he had a tourist visa, and during that time, his sister petitioned for his green…
Five Years After Obama’s Cuba Opening, Cubans Are Reeling From The “Trump Effect”
By Medea Benjamin Gloria Minor had been preparing her AirBnB in Havana for years, investing every penny her sister sent her from Miami in repairing and refurbishing her apartment. With President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro re-establishing relations five years…
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