Michael Ventura / Photo Art: Dan Hubig
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Ventura at 4am / The Politics Of Helplessness – Part II
They strewed white flowers of cowardice, as they passed… ~ Anne Spencer If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced...
David Talbot
Oct 16, 20183 min read
Talbot / San Francisco's Moral Failure
Three cheers -- hell, FOUR cheers -- for Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff for throwing his huge corporate and personal weight behind Prop. C,...
David Talbot
Sep 10, 20184 min read
Talbot / America ... 'Great' & Gray
I applaud the late John McCain's daughter Meghan for fighting through her tears as she delivered a eulogy at her father's funeral,...
David Talbot
Jul 20, 20182 min read
Talbot / Left Wing of the Possible
"I'm a radical...(But) I want to be on the left wing of the possible." That's how activist-author Michael Harrington, co-founder of the...
David Talbot
Jul 2, 20182 min read
Talbot / The New Democratic Party?
The most exciting, most encouraging political development in America today is, without a doubt, the wave of new energy in the left wing...
FRANK BROWNING
May 31, 20186 min read
Paris, May '68: You Say It Was a Revolution?
The pervasive posters, video-docs, street banners and public seminars in France are clear signs that millions want to remember 1968. But...
James BigBoy Medlin
Mar 25, 20182 min read
WHY NOT? / Crazy About Trump
Please help me! I fear my mind is going and I am suffering from a terrifying delusion. It seems like this fellow Trump is part of every...
Enrico Deaglio / the Lunch Guys
Mar 6, 20183 min read
Report on an Italian Disaster: European Fascist Parties Increase Momentum
The Italian vote has changed completely the European political landscape, ending what was called “the Second Republic”, which started in...
James BigBoy Medlin
Feb 25, 20183 min read
WHY NOT? / We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Us
Like the rest of the civilized world, I have followed the gut-wrenching coverage of the various shootings at public schools. My gut...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
Feb 18, 20187 min read
And Thy Right Hand Shall Teach Thee
Here We Go Yet Again… Nineteen years ago – May 28 1999 – The Austin Chronicle published a Letters At 3am column concerning the Columbine...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
Jan 17, 201816 min read
THE OBVIOUS, THE EVIL, AND THE E-STREET SHUFFLE / Ventura at 4am
We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools. - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1. The Obvious “Well, just so you...
the Lunch Guys
Dec 21, 20177 min read
The Lunch Guys / Sexual Abuse, Al Franken & the Desire for 'Purity'
The Lunch Guys are: L to R, Randy Alfred (editor & writer), Dan Hubig (artist), Jeffrey Klein (former editor of Mother Jones & West...
Elliott Negin
Dec 21, 20175 min read
Trump Vows To Kill 50 Years Of Federal Health And Safety Protections
President Trump wants to set the regulatory clock back to 1960, and last week he acted it out for the cameras. Wielding a pair of golden...