February 2016

Isolated and Forgotten in Syria

Clickbait v Political Impact: Alternative Journalism as Social Media Becomes the New News Source

Propaganda as “News”: Ecuador Sells Out Indigenous Tribes and the Environment to China

Berkeley City Politics and the Denial Of Due Process

Europe’s Left: Triumph or Trap?

The Great Rebalancing: China Rewrites the Global Rules

Profits for the Economic Club: How US Military Spending Benefits the Few

Clouds Gather Over Bolivia’s Change Process as US Intervenes

Manitoba Hydro in Africa

Lessons From Beyoncé

Bernie Sanders’ Embrace of Bayard Rustin’s Hopeful Message

Living With Trumbo Under the Blacklist

Blood Traces: Bernie’s Iraq War Hypocrisy

Why India’s Leading University is Under Siege

Stocks Dive as Confidence in Fed Fades

Trump is Right About Iraq, and That Should Stick to Clinton

Psychiatry’s “Defect Model of Mental Illness:” a Path for Those it Has Failed

Special Places in Hell: For Madeline, Hillary….and Bernie

“What About Sierra Blanca, Bernie?” From Radioactive Waste on the Rio Grande to Reparations

How ISIS and the Taliban are Carving Up Mafiastan

Duplicitous Diplomacy: Ambassador Reflects on American Respect for Real Democracy

Hillary Clinton Sugarcoating Her Disastrous Record

On the Death of Supreme Court Junket King Scalia

The Political Landscape in the Real World

False Friends and Misaligned Interests: The Syrian Conflict Deepens

Resisting the Triangulation of the Democratic Party

Hear the Cries of Death: Do They Rhyme With “Conservation”?

Homes Demolished in the South Hebron Hills

Should Henry Kissinger Mentor a Presidential Candidate?

Confronting Our Toxic Legacy

Tussle in Milwaukee: Bernie blasts Wall Street donations, While Hillary Insists that Financiers’ Money is Benign

The Flint River Lead Poisoning Catastrophe in Historical Perspective

The Cruzifiction of Michael Wayne Haley

Divvying Up the Dead: Grizzly Bears in a Post-ESA World

The U.S. Election: Any Good News for Palestine?

Radioactive Handouts: the Nuclear Subsidies Buried Inside Obama’s “Clean” Energy Budget

Friedrichs v. U.S. Public Employee Unions

Financial Oligarchy vs. Feudal Aristocracy

Lenin, Putin and Me

Why Hillary Clinton Spells Democratic Party Defeat

Bernie’s Blinding Light

Springsteen: Rockin’ the House in Albany, NY

Doglegs, An Unforgettable Film

Law on the Margins: a Profile of Social Justice Lawyer Chaumtoli Huq

Everywhere is War: Luke Mogelson’s These Heroic, Happy Dead: Stories

Bernie? Why Not?

The Opposite of Transparency: What I Didn’t Read in the TIPP Reading Room

Assange’s UN Victory and Redemption of the West

Israeli Myths: An Interview with Ramzy Baroud

Hollywood’s Grotesque Animal Abuse