Musical Internationalism | Groove in G

Starting with musical group Tinariwen in West Africa, Playing for Change traveled the world asking musicians to add to the song. A groove in the key of G transformed into a global jam with its roots in the blues.

Radical Brownies

Berets, badges, Black Lives Matter and social justice: the youth group for activist girls of color

Kellyanne Conway - SNL

Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon) reveals the real reason she joined Donald Trump's campaign.

Torture Works . . . to Produce Fake News

Juan Cole Informed Comment
Torture is an excellent way to be trolled by a seasoned operative, with potentially disastrous consequences, as Iraq showed

Bullshitter in Chief

Lauren Griffin The Conversation
In some ways, it's way worse than lying. A bullshitter just isn't concerned about truth.

Trumponomics, Taxes, and the American Worker

David Cay Johnston Washington Spectator
Trump’s tax proposals, which shift like desert sands in a windstorm, would lavish vast new tax breaks on people like himself

I See America Marching Again

Dan La Botz New Politics
With the poet's thanks and apologies to Walt Whitman, Dan La Botz captures the spirit of resistance in today's America and reaffirms the importance of speaking up and marching, marching, marching. Note the poem below is also translated into Spanish and French.

A Globalism of the 1%: Donald Trump Against the World The Birth of a New Nationalist World Order

John Feffer TomDispatch
This is a stunning piece of analysis on how Donald Trump will go to war with the planet (just as he essentially suggested he would in his America-First inaugural speech). John Feffer, author of the unforgettable new dystopian novel Splinterlands, the latest Dispatch Book, explores how President Trump plans to blow up the present world order and give birth to a new kind of internationalism led by a global confederacy of oligarchs. (Tom Engelhardt)