January 2013

Obama Silent on Labor

Night of the Optimists

Feeling Like a Big Shot

Nature’s Capital is the Limiting Resource

Dilemmas of an Online Film Watcher

End of the Culture Wars?

Obama DOE Fracked Gas Export Study Contractor’s Tobacco Industry Roots

Forging An Independent Foreign Policy

The Great White Camel

Painful Paeans to America

Sport and the Sublime

Why Economic Inequality is Not Good for the Economy

Democracy in America, Revisited

The Trouble With Roe

Obama’s Unprecedented Number of Deportations

This N-Word Sh-t is Completely Effed Up

Why I Won’t be Voting for ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ in Any Category

Obama: Words and Deeds

The Great Dismal

US-led Sanctions Contribute to the Destruction of Syria’s Millenary History

Why I Do Not Want to Leave Palestine/Israel

Jakarta’s Killer Floods and the Elites

A Simple Story About Two Fucked Up People

Another Assault by Corporations on Consumers’ Right to Know

Hijacking Education’s Sanctuary

Indian Farmers Trapped and Desperate

A New Model Drone Resolution

Dorbin, DeWald and Ford

Pebble Mine: Qui Bono?

The March of the MegaStores

The Impossible Discourse of the ‘Arab Spring’

Tortured at the Movies

Who Profits from Climate Catastrophism?

Saudi Arabia v. Qatar on Syria

Kennedy’s Reefer Madness

Islamic Law, Adoptions and Kafalah

Trade Unions and the Strike in Britain

Five Ways of Looking at the New Knesset

The Open-Ended Global War on Terrorism

The Real Reason for the Decline of American Labor Unions

Obama Endorses Stonewall?

Neoliberalism Can’t Die Soon Enough

Illegal Pot Farms Are Destroying Public Lands

The US / Qatar Alliance

The Asian Pivot as a New Form of Warfare

Nuclear Weapons Waste in Your Water Bottle, Hip Replacement, Baby’s Toys, Jungle Gym?

Vietnam: Déjà Vu All Over Again

You Can Never Go Home Again

An Irish Engagement with the Greek Crisis and the Greek Left

Yes, There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch