February 2016

We Can’t Afford These Billionaires

How the Bundy Gang Won

Canada and the TPP

Europe is Built on Corpses and Plunder

Israel Moves to Check Its Artists

The ‘Bern’ and the Internet

Super Propaganda

#realacademicbios Deserve Real Reform

The Invisible Epidemic: Radiation and Rising Rates of Thyroid Cancer

Of Beyoncé, Trudeau and Culture Predators

On Unions and Class Struggle

Unjust and Dysfunctional: Asylum in the UK

ISIS Erasing Our Cultural Heritage in Syria

“Lies, Lies and More Lies” – GMOs, Poisoned Agriculture and Toxic Rants

Great Caesar’s Ghost!: A Specter Haunts Hollywood in the Coen’s Anti-Anti-Commie Goofball Comedy

Cold Weather Comforts of a Certain Sort

Syria Again

Army of Lobbyists Push LNG Exports, Methane Hydrates, Coal in Senate Energy Bill

Can One Survive the Holocaust?

Peace Talks “Paused” After Putin’s Triumph in Aleppo 

When Chivalry Fails: St. Bernard and the Machine

Fanaticism and Fantasy Drive Purported TPP ‘Benefits’

The Public Health Impact of Domestic Violence

Will There Ever Be Anyone Better Than Bernie Sanders?

Please Clap: the Jeb Bush Campaign Pre-Mortem

Park Service Finally Stands Up for Grizzlies and Us

Wrestling With Iran

Smash Clintonism: Why Democrats, Not Republicans, are the Problem

On the Passing of the Jefferson Airplane

Is Bernie Sanders a “Socialist”?

The Liberal Hounding of Julian Assange: From Alex Gibney to The Guardian

Who Was Cecil Rhodes?

Market Turmoil, the Fed and the Presidential Election

Did Fox News Help the GOP Establishment Get Its Groove Back?

Reading Room Blues

The Fault Line of Race in America

My 40 Years in Prison

Super Bowl 50: American Inequality on Display

Should We Fear Cruz Missiles?

Feeding the Beast

The Logic of Hunger Striking Palestinians: When Starvation Is a Weapon

Beyond Sean Penn’s Fiasco: Mexico’s Alleged War on Drugs is Not a Movie

Political Revolution and the Third-Party Imperative

Stopping West Coast Tar Sands Oil Bomb Trains in Their Tracks

More Lies From Spies: the Tall Tales of Robert Gates

African Union Refuses to Invade Burundi

Deadlock: North Korea’s Nuclear Test and US Policy

Heather White and the Human Costs of Electronics

The Revolt in Greece

Final Shots: the Clintons and Colombian Death Squads