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The President of the United States is the most powerful man in the world, I don’t think anyone doubts that. Perhaps that status will be short-lived, but for now it is. He is backed by money, weapons, including nuclear weapons,…

According to a new global survey of 75,000 people — Peoples’ Climate Vote 2024 — 80 percent want their governments’ climate commitments to be stronger. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes The poll, conducted by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), GeoPoll and Oxford University, posed…

For the fourth time this summer Bar Crawl Radio podcast is not at a bar.  But we are continuing to have conversations with neighbors doing positive work for their community.  We will be talking with a citizen journalists who works…

For-profit operators and their investors use complex business arrangements and networks of related companies to enrich themselves and do little to improve education. By Jeff Bryant Ever since charter schools were created in the 1990s, there’s been a persistent question1 of whether or…

Parallel Realities Over the course of the last ten to twelve months, I’ve had conversations with more than a few of my fellow Democrats (I’m still officially on the books as a member of the Democratic Party) about an array…

Of course, millions of people all over the world and in the United States support either Israeli or Hamas warmaking — warmaking which (one must point out the obvious because the very topic of warmaking renders so many people mentally…

On Saturday afternoon, the Post Fire began in a mountainous region of California, approximately 45 miles northwest of Los Angeles, according to authorities. By Sunday, it had burned more than 14,000 acres of brush and grasslands, forcing about 1,200 people to evacuate the…

During last week’s Congressional Baseball Game, dozens of us in the crowd conveyed urgent messages to stop funding Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and to address the escalating climate crisis. We were met by hundreds of police from different jurisdictions who…

Saturday, June 15, 2024 at 12:00 PM ET This is free and open to the public. Participants all need to register on this page. What does NATO have to do with current and looming wars? How does NATO work and…

On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, the Schiller Institute hosted a press conference, titled “The Danger of Nuclear War Is Real, and Must Be Stopped” in Washingston D.C.. Speakers: Scott Ritter: former U.N. weapons inspector and U.S. Marine intelligence officer; Col.…