July 2015

Sandra Bland, Rebel

The Case of John Peter Zenger and the Fight for a Free Press

The NSA’s 9/11 Cover-Up: General Hayden Told a Lie, and It’s a Whopper

Tracking the Lion Killers Back to the Old Oval Office

Iowa Conference on Presidential Politics

Cultural Treasures Are Also Victims of War

No Warlords Need Apply: a Call for Credible Peacemaking in Afghanistan

Dead Again: the Latest Demise of Mullah Omar

How One Safari Nut, the CIA and Neoliberal Environmentalists Plotted to Destroy Mozambique

America’s Decline: Internal Structural-Cultural Subversion

Scott Walker & Stephen Harper: a New Bromance

How Obama Failed Africa

Ukraine: Close to the Edge

The Wheels Fell Off the Bernie Sanders Bandwagon

The Sheepdog Politics of Barack Obama

Why Union Contracts are Good for the Country

The Politics of Betrayal: Obama Backstabs Kurds to Appease Turkey

The Red Herring of Digital Backdoors and Key Escrow Encryption

The High and Dry Sierras

Neoliberal Ebola: the Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak

Defending Democracy

The ‘Ichkerization’ Crime Wave in Ukraine

Russia’s Insidious Epidemic

A President and a Yogi: Abdul Kalam’s Symbolism

What Happened to Ralkina Jones? Another Jail Cell Death

Mekons Tour Diary, the Season Finale, Mekonception in Redhook

Is the Phoenix Rising From the Ashes in Syria?

José Pertierra – Episode 13

El Salvador’s Draconian Abortion Laws: a Miscarriage of Justice

Netanyahu: An Enemy of Peace

Will Ohio Gov. Kasich’s Anti-Green Resume Kill His Presidential Hopes?

Effect of Greece’s Economic Crisis on Public Health

China’s NGO Law: Countering Western Soft Power and Subversion

Educating About Islam: Problems of Selectivity and Imbalance

Israel and Gaza: the BDS Movement One Year After “Protective Edge”

Bark Beetles and Forest Fires: Another Myth Goes Up in Smoke

Humanitarian Occupation of Haiti: 100 Years and Counting

The Limits of Optimism: E.L. Doctorow and the American Left

Landlords Behaving Badly: San Francisco Too Valuable for Poor People*

Ransacking Malaysia: the Najib Corruption Dossier

Mekons Tour Diary, Episode 4, a Bowery Ballroom Blitz

Supply and Demand in the Gold and Silver Futures Markets

Why the “Black Church” Doesn’t Exist–and Never Has

Sandra Bland’s Only Crime Was Driving While Black

Sending a ‘Citizens Summons’ to Members of Congress

Thawing Relations: Cuba’s Deeper (More Challenging) Significance

Bernie Sanders: Savior or Seducer of the Anti-War Left?

Big Pharma’s Profiteers: You Want Us to Pay What for These Meds?

Scratch That Itch: Hillary and The Donald

Obama’s Version of Iran Nuke Deal: a Second False Narrative