Category Archives: Marty’s Blog

Chris Hedges Dec 18, 2017 The Permanent Lie, Our Deadliest Threat Mr. Fish / Truthdig The most ominous danger we face does not come from the eradication of free speech through the obliteration of net neutrality or through Google algorithms … Continue reading →

A Donald Trump protester on Inauguration Day. (Fibonacci Blue / Wikimedia)   Paul Street TruthDig- Dec 11, 2017 The archplutocratic tax cut Washington politicians are working on this holiday season ought to be a call to arms for the United … Continue reading →

Gage Skidmore Dec 6, 2017 Henry Giroux / Salon Just one year into the Donald Trump presidency, not only have the failures of American democracy become clear, but many of the darkest elements of its history have been catapulted to … Continue reading →

America’s War on America The Capitol in Washington at dawn before the Senate Republicans passed their sweeping tax bill. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP) This world is one great battlefield, With forces all arrayed; If in my heart I do … Continue reading →

Forget Trump and Discover the World

Paul Street- Truth Dig Contributor  Nov 15, 2017 Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 “Insubordinate elites,” as the distinguished American foreign policy historian Alfred W. McCoy calls them, have long been a problem for the United States empire. They privilege … Continue reading →

By TYLER KEPNER NOV. 7, 2017 Photo In his 2010 no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds, which was the second no-hitter in postseason history, Roy Halladay struck out eight batters and walked one. Credit Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images Roy Halladay never threw … Continue reading →

Michael Eric Dyson OCT. 21, 201 Credit John Dominis/Time Life Pictures, via Getty Images He’s disrespecting the flag. He’s slighting veterans. He’s showing contempt for the national anthem. He’s not a true patriot. That is what the critics have been … Continue reading →

October 17, 2017  TruthDig Bill Blum Contributor Presidential Crisis What’s that you say? Getting rid of Trump won’t be as easy as 1, 2, 3. (Alex Brandon / AP) For those of you looking for a legal avenue to cut … Continue reading →

Oct 10, 2017 David Brooks-NY Times ichard Thaler has just won an extremely well deserved Nobel Prize in economics. Thaler took an obvious point, that people don’t always behave rationally, and showed the ways we are systematically irrational. Thanks to … Continue reading →