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Prior to 2001, U.S. Wars were financed through a mixture of higher taxes and budget cuts, and funded mostly through the regular defense budget. The post 9-11 war funding pattern was completely different.

A year after a mob stormed Brazil’s capital, January 8 is now a date to commemorate democracy’s survival.

Massachusetts voters approved an additional tax on incomes of more than a million dollars. At least a billion extra dollars will support transportation and education projects this year.

Saying that Israel must be democratic and Jewish is like saying the United States must be democratic and white or democratic and Christian.

Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Kosenko urge G7 leaders to send a clear message to rogue regimes waging brutal wars of aggression.

Corporations used the “crying wolf” strategy to claim that raising the minimum wage would harm the poor, that Social Security was a slippery slope towards socialism, and that the government has gone “too far” in regulating carbon emissions.

The people-power, energy, and savvy exist to regain the initiative against MAGA and win a ceasefire in Gaza. To do so, we will need to call on positive vision, political clarity, narrative power—and courage.

Fighting the Good Fight (in 1909), Teach Literacy, Go to Jail (1854), Deadly But Very Popular (1964), Pretending to Drain the Swamp (1984), Orgy of Police Brutality (1874), McCarthyism's Downfall (1964), Hitler's Friends in the House of Lords (1934)

"This is the true patriotism—no revenge wars and calls for extermination, no unnecessary bloodshed, and no sacrifice of kidnapped citizens and soldiers in false wars," said KM Ofer Cassif.