Read

The Opposition Needs to Make Elon Musk's Coup Its Sole, Singular Focus

Photo:
Support Oppositional Press—Not Media Owned by Fascist Collaborators

Photo:
The Opposition Can't Allow Itself to Be Distracted By Shiny Objects

Photo:
Collectively Resisting Fascism and Building Alternatives in Naples

Photo:
Democrats Have a Massive Opportunity as a Pure Opposition Party

Photo:
Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny Display the Scale of Acceptance for Vigilante Violence

Photo:
Mitch McConnell and Tommy Tuberville Gave Democrats the Blueprint for Anti-Trump Opposition

Photo:

Global Power Project, Part 7: Banking on Influence with Citigroup

Citigroup, the largest single recipient of US taxpayer bailout funds with some $476 billion in cash and guarantees, didn't just defraud investors: it foreclosed on hundreds of U.S. military members who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

// Read More

Icelandic Democracy on the Screen: "Pots, Pans and Other Solutions"

Examining the little island with big direct democracy ideas, the documentary Pots, Pans and Other Solutions tells the story of Iceland’s reaction to the financial crash.

// Read More

The Great GMO Boycott: Could the World's Most Hated Corporation Finally Be On The Run?

The anti-GMO movement has identified Monsanto’s Achilles heel—GMO food labeling at the state level—and our common task now is to win the all-important Washington State ballot initiative I-522.

// Read More

Snowden Leaks Give New Life to Lawsuits Challenging N.S.A. Surveillance Programs

Cracks are appearing in a legal wall that since 9/11 has shielded the U.S. government's claim of constitutional authority from open-court review, as five lawsuits filed since the Snowden affair allege violations by the NSA surveillance program.

// Read More

Illinois Bill Seeks Financial Transaction Tax on $800 Trillion Derivatives Market

A Financial Transaction Tax would be easy to administer and difficult to evade. Why should the rest of us pay up to 10% on the necessities of life while risky derivative purchases aren't taxed at all?

// Read More

Battle for LICH Brooklyn Hospital Escalates

As the Affordable Care Act goes into effect, moves to close a 155-year-old hospital in downtown Brooklyn — and potentially sell it to a for-profit entity or a developer — could have national implications.

// Read More

America's Legacy of Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin

Decades of white retrenchment led up to the moment that a bullet pierced Trayvon Martin’s heart -- and no matter what the prosecution, the defense, the jury or the defenders of George Zimmerman may think, racism was pivotal in his killing.

// Read More

Occupy Homes Resistance Grows Against Foreclosures in Minneapolis

Activists spearheaded an initiative called the Eviction Free Zone for neighborhoods in Minneapolis, where activists hunker down in foreclosed properties, warding off attempts by police and banks to change the locks.

// Read More