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Phil WilsonCommon Dreams |
A calculated and brutal murder of health insurance executive Brian Thompson has ripped open the skin enclosing a vast repository of popular rage.
There is no reason to write about the election, the future, or to bend my imagination into a receptacle able to contain and contemplate the...
Any serious discussion of Trump leads to one conclusion: something terrible, vast, and irredeemable has befallen us and we have no language to...
The Democratic Party – for those of us paying attention – has become a shadow of the Republican Party, a miniature MAGA image impaled on the...
Capitalism is feeding on our "courageous" sense of optimism—as it swallows the planet whole.
I recently complained that public narratives about climate—those promoted on so called mainstream platforms, and featured in cryptic one-liners...
Sure, there might be a few people who will drink from the doomer cup and curl into fetal surrender. But there will be far more who will take this...
If you are on your toes, you note what we are witnessing is not about Trump at all. It is about us. What forces us, the raw mass of humanity born...
The choice is not who to vote for, but what we do after the votes are counted.
I suffered through much of the three nights of non-reality programming called the 2024 Democratic National Convention. I watched nearly the whole...
Out of some sort of atavistic hope, I watched the Democratic Party convention searching for some glimmer of rational wisdom. How stupid of me! I...
The biosphere has been sent to hospice, and we are all on a morphine drip called election coverage.
Are we poised to witness the greatest domestic act of genocide since the expulsion of Indigenous people?