January 2016

Spin Shift on Bernie: the Escalating Media Assault

The Seeds of Spin: Decoding Pro-GMO Lies and Falsehoods

Prove You Aren’t On Drugs, Kid

Syngenta and the Chinese Factor

The Five Lamest Excuses for Hillary Clinton’s Vote to Invade Iraq

In Search of Nationalism: Remembering Benedict Anderson

Sour Bits from Iowa’s Town Hall and Hillary’s Red Attire

Corporate Inversion: The American Way

False Claims and Flawed Conclusions Being Used to Push GM Crops into India

The Populist Revolution: Bernie and Beyond

Flint’s Water Crisis and the GOP’s Class War

Slouching Toward Hillary?

My Critique of the Bernie Sanders Campaign

Southern Exposure: Reading Terry Southern, Great American Satirist, Voice of His Time

Flint: Genocide by Design

Saving Brown Female Bodies: Cameron and Britain’s Female Muslims

The Flint Water Disaster: a Perfect Storm of Downplaying, Denial and Deceit

How Catalonia is the Key to Spain’s Current Political Deadlock

Gaza Speaks: This Is What the Decade-long Siege Has Done to Us

Ticking Toward Doomsday

Iraq, Rumsfeld and Other Thugs

Grazing in Heaven: a Martyr for the Baron’s Rebellion

Holocaust Memorial Day and Yellow Snowflakes

Saudi Arabia Is Killing Civilians With US Bombs

Buying Hillary Clinton: The Courting of Wall Street

Bloomberg: a Candidate of, By and For the 0.01%

Even With Treatment for Hepatitis C, Abu-Jamal’s Health Not Guaranteed

Faking History

This Would Not Happen If They Were White: Race, Class, and Politics in Flint, Michigan

After Flint, Don’t Let Them Nuke the Great Lakes Next!

Making the Promises Real: Labor and the Paris Climate Agreement

Ted Cruz and the True Conservative Fallacy

The Overlooked, Simple Reason Democrats Should Nominate Bernie Sanders

Five Revealing Facts About Homeless Youth

I Was the Target of Jeb Bush’s Vicious Political Dark Side

Moral Courage and the Politics of Reparations: Uncle Bernie Drops the Ball

Impunity of Denmark: the EU’s Deadly Double Standards

Winston Churchill: Britain’s Greatest Briton Left a Legacy of Global Conflict and Crimes Against Humanity

Stinking Badges

Hillary Drives Hawkish Wedge Into Democratic Race

Mission Possible: Breaking Up the Big Banks and Universal Medicare

Yes, Peace in Colombia, But Will There be Justice?

Why the Oscars Don’t Deserve People of Color

Winners and Losers in the Syrian Civil War

Browsing Bernie’s Bookshelf

Regulatory Farce: Internal Capitalist Hegemony

Media More Outraged by Possible Murder by Putin Than Definite Murder by Obama

Chasing Fried Eggs with Jorge Luis Borges

PBS Newshour Lies About Single-Payer Health Care

Stock Buybacks and the Wall Street Sharktank: “A Whole Lotta Stealin’ Goin’ On”