This Modern World Leaves Salon After 16 Years

This Modern World is leaving Salon.com after being there since 1994. The most famous progressive web comic on the internet created by Tom Tomorrow is moving to its new home at the Daily Kos.

This Modern World is leaving Salon.com after being there since 1994. The most famous progressive web comic on the internet created by Tom Tomorrow is moving to its new home at the Daily Kos.

Since the United States became an empire in 1945, a constant factor at play has been a single political agenda in regard to America’s foreign policy. Ever since Harry Truman the underlying goals of all US policy decisions overseas, made by Democrats and Republicans Presidents alike, have been to assert and expand US global imperialism. [...]

Parse that carefully because it can be too easy to become focused on the “Stupid” part. It’s S-t-u-p-i-d W-h-i-t-e M-e-n. For completeness we should add “Old”, and “Rich” (and probably some other adjectives as well) because of course in addition to being a race and gender issue climate change is a class and generational one. [...]

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but making sense of it can be just as murky. In “All Good Things, –just out on DVD– director Andrew Jarecki throws a paper thin veil over the notorious Robert Durst story. The script changes the names to protect the presumed innocent and, I guess, to stay a step [...]
Nobody really knows the full extent of what the Koch Brothers are involved in pushing their far right wing dogma on America. They funnel tens of millions through corporate front groups, and under current laws can continue to hide how deep they are into reactionary astroturfing “movements.”