July 2012

Israel Disses US While Seeking ‘Bi-Lateral Alliance’ with Russia

Welcome to the Slaughterhouse

Hunger Games Politics

Oil and Illusions

The NYT Reporter Who Quit in Disgust

The Virtues of Big Government

Putin’s Pussy Problem

A Coup in Paraguay? Is That in Africa?

Afghan Bangs and Whimpers

What Do Events in Egypt Mean for the American Left?

A Global Attack by the One Percent

The Price of Screwing With America

Occupy Your Couch: Films for the 99 Percent

Norway’s Day of Reckoning

Xerxes Bewildered

Racism in London, Circa 1830

The Police and the Occupy Movement

Three Poems by Gary Corseri

Biggest Financial Scandal in Britain’s History, Yet Not a Single Occupy Sign; What Happened?

Criminalizing Thinking

Should We Abolish the Olympics?

Austerity, Growth and Germany’s Europe Policy

The Great Liquidity Trap

The End of TomKat

Lost Liberty in the Age of CounterTerrorism

Trapped in a Military Mindset

Fracking Pennsylvania, Consequences Be Damned

Health Care Casino

Electoral Hijinks in Mexico

A Post ‘Arab Spring’ Palestine

Playing Kravis’s Tune

No Shelter

Signs of the Times in Haiti

Perpetual Peace

Codependence Day

Banking on Zeros

Work Shorter Hours, Reap Real Benefits

A Primer on Settler Colonialism

Tom Paine and the Fourth of July

What Now for the Mexican Left?

Gaming the System

A New Era for Worker Ownership

Mexico’s Return to “Perfect Dictatorship”

The Longest War

Deer Hunting in Bloomington?

On the Shadow Money Trail

An Interview With Roberto Unger on Why Progressives Need to Defeat Obama

Why Should Nuclear Loan Guarantees Cost Less Than Student Loans?

The Tea Party, Canada and Health Care

Wildfires: Myths and Realities