January 2015

How I Stopped Being A Jew

On Praying

Scoring Pynchon

The Importance of Hope

Police Behavior and Neoliberalism

Frank Fried, Presente!

Help Preserve our Shared Cultural Heritage in Syria

Squiers, Hyde & Strauss

40 Years of Economic Policy in One Chart

Oil Prices and the Devil’s Ransom

David Cameron’s Move Against Encryption

The French Role in the Use and Export of Torture

Universal Surveillance

European Lives Have Always Mattered More Than Others

The Confusion of the West

Kicking the Disabled

Haiti’s Political Earthquake

Why Free Speech Supporters Should Still Criticise Charlie Hebdo

It’s Not About Islam; It Never Was

The Spectacular Media Failure on Charlie Hebdo

Iran’s Changing Role

Infrastructure Trumps Militarized Capitalism

Poroshenko the “Civilized”

Syria Can Achieve Lifesaving Relief

Dude, Where’s My Peace Dividend?

Obama’s Sordid Record on Censorship and Secrecy

I am Not Charlie

The “War” Against Radical Islam

L’affaire Charlie Hebdo and Western Colonialism

Internationally Banned Tear Gas

Changing the Global Warming Metaphor

Blowing the Whistle on Operation Merlin

Taking a Meaningless Progressive Stand in Congress

The Fate of the ICC

The Follies of a Target-Obsessed Government

The Vulnerability of French Jewry

Je Suis Charlie…But I Have Others

Censoring Gods and Aliens

Canada’s Choice: Austerity or Prosperity?

Why Prison Doesn’t Work

Reclaiming Privacy in the Golden Age of Surveillance

Eight Thoughts on Charlie Hebdo

Four Ways the West Got the Iran Nuclear Issue Wrong

Charlie and the Banlieues

Sainath’s Challenge

How Obama Could End The Cuban Embargo

The Paris “Charlie Hebdo” March

Refreeze the Arctic?

America’s Mad Rush to the Bottom

On Advertising in Movies