March 2014

An Unlikely Solution to Our Children’s Reading Ailments

Art Palestine International’s 2014 Exhibit

Orpheus Ascending

Raskolnikov in Kabul

Glam, Bam, Thank-You, Ma’am!

What We’re Listening to This Week

Three Poems by Michael Earl Craig

Casting Sunlight on Secret Government and Its Contractors

Mahmoud Abbas vs Mohammed Dahlan

Surveillance and the Erosion of Civil Liberties

Three Energy Export Congressional Hearings, No Climate Change Discussion

From Libya to Ukraine

The War Syllogism in American Presidential Rhetoric

Ukraine: Manna From Heaven for the Green Line and Beyond Crowd

The Iranian Threat That Never Was

When It Comes to Political Ideas, How Big Is ‘Big’?

How “Extreme Levels” of Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm

The Fight for $15 Finally Comes to Portland

Two Lawmen, Two Stories of a Boston Marathon Witness Killing

Where is Egypt’s Post-Coup Left?

When Clearcuts Kill

NATO and Serbia, 15 Years On

The Economic Scam of the Century

Unequal Education

Water Apartheid in Palestine

The Texas-California Job Growth Derby

Hello Happiness, Goodbye Misery

How Much War Does Washington Want?

Three True Stories From Union Contract Negotiations

Russia, Knuckle Under—Or Else!

President Assad and Ayatollah Khamenei are Keeping Their Word

Time to Disband NATO

Three Mile Island, 35 Years Later

BDS: Non-Violent Resistance to Israeli Occupation

How NGOs Failed Afghanistan

Lettuce Picking and Left-Wing Organizing

The Irrelevance of the Israel-Palestine Talks

Three Who Made a War

Slavery, Cotton and Imperialism

Europe Doesn’t Need America’s Fracked Gas

Obama Administration Faces Diplomatic Isolation on Venezuela

Between the Nuremberg Trials and the “Glorious” Egyptian Judiciary

Uruguay Offers to Welcome Guantánamo Detainees

Economic Suicide

Marx’s Son-in-Law Hated Animals

Complicity is Complicity

Terror, Laws and Oversight

The Culture of Fear Continues in Colombia

The Hate Preachers Fueling Sectarianism

Chaos at Pacifica