This summer, TRNN reported on rural Wisconsinites’ fight against Big Agriculture and the factory farming industry. Since then, things have gotten even more heated on the ground in Polk, Burnett, and Crawford counties.
Source: The industrial farming monster that devoured rural America
Disagreements over how to assess the American exodus from Afghanistan have kept the pundits busy these last weeks, even though there wasn’t much to say that hadn’t been said before. For some of them, however,
The Democratic Party is having an internal battle over the “small” and the “large” infrastructure bills, but what’s really at stake is the future of neoliberalism within the party. The smaller “bipartisan” bill represents the neoliberal worldview, including public-private partnerships and huge subsidies to for-profit companies, whereas the larger “reconciliation” Democratic Party-only bill hearkens back More
Source: Neoliberalism: America Has Arrived at One of History’s Great Crossroads – CounterPunch.org
Sociologists are amazed by the swift disintegration of Christianity in America. It’s a stunning cultural transformation, confirmed by several surveys and […]
Source: Christianity is collapsing | Freedom From Religion Foundation
( Tomdispatch.com) – America has an accountability problem. In fact, if the Covid-19 disaster, the January 6th Capitol attack, and …
The greatest danger we face today is not coming from China. It is our drift toward proto-fascism
Source: Opinion | Our Biggest Enemy Isn’t China. It’s Right Here at Home | Robert Reich
America is stabbing itself in the back.
Source: Opinion | Tough Truths Are Desperately Needed About America’s Lost Wars | William Astore
The cutoff of unemployment benefits is aimed at lowering wages in the face of rising inflation and blackmailing the jobless into accepting dangerous work as the pandemic continues to claim hundreds of lives daily.
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ross Williams at the Georgia Reporter writes that federal judge Mark Cohen on Monday characterized …
