December 2015

Ravenous Beasts: Of Jets and Predators

Gates’ Nuclear Folly: the Breakthrough We Really Need is Fast Implementation of Renewables

This is a Dumb War

The Islam Equals Terror Libel

Bloodbath in Yellowstone: the Plan to Slaughter 1000 Bison

Laughter, Forgetting and Cynicism in Paris: Kundera, Obama and the Climate Talks

American Nightmare: the Depravity of Neoliberalism

Compassion: Some Have It, Some Don’t

Pariahs in Waiting

Tokyo 2020 in the Shadow of Godzilla

Public by Definition

Tyranny of Accommodation: A Paradigm of Speech Control

Seeds of Chaos / Roots of Terror

Posts from Paris: the World is On Fire But the United Nations is Not

The Myth of Black Hypercriminality: What the Numbers Really Say About Race and Homicides

Whitewashing Militarism, Vietnam-War Edition

Drawing the Line on Bears

False Just Wars: The Commons Vote to Bomb Syria

Protests in the Ivies: Whatever Happened to Irreverence and Thick Skins?

A Fine Journalist Vanishes Into Egypt’s Gulag

More Planes Than Targets: Why the Air War on ISIS Will Fail

This Election We’ve Failed Animals (Again)

Heaven and Hell on Earth

Rahm Emmanuel, Laquan McDonald and Black Rebellion in Chicago

A Pipeline of Lies

Arab Women, Muslim Women: Infinite Possibilities (For Your Debate)

Before the President There Was Mr. Tibbs

Abandon All Hope!

The Clinton Files: Those White House Coffee Klatsches

Two Men Bigger Than Life: Oscar Hijuelos’ “Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise”

The Mundanity of Charisma: Paul Keating’s Pathos and Path

The Pentagon’s Carbon Boot Print

COP21, Climate Action 0

The Further Nullification of Philip K. Dick

Scapegoating Russia: Dangerous Bluster From the Presidential Campaign

Climate Change Casino: Carbon Trading Reborn in New-Generation Mega-Polluters

Rolling Back the Destructive Influence of the Global Agribusiness Cartel

Do Mass Killings Bother You?

Putin Must Seek Justice For Peshkov

A Bach for Our Time: the Genius of Oortmerssen

“You Are in Gun Country”

Dr. James Hansen’s Nuke Problem

Remembering Ezra Schwartz: A Hasbara Story

The Debt We Owe the Gray Wolf

Venezuela’s Elections: Courage in the Face of Economic and Psychological War

Why Progressives Should Defend Venezuela’s Democratic Elections

US Corporate Media Seek to Undermine Venezuelan Democracy with Lies and Distortions

Reclaiming Palestine: How Israeli Media Misread the Intifada

Ibsen Today: Wellsprings of a Poisoned Community

Incoherence and Bombing Mania in the British Commons