May 2016

The Lies Military Recruiter Tell

Fear Itself: From Zika Virus to Public Bathrooms

Electoral Folly: No Matter How Good the Candidate, Business as Usual Rules Elected Office

Good-Guy Gunslingers

SCS for South China Sea Aren’t the Scariest Letters in the World … They’re CPEC

The Border That We Keep

We All Pay for Low Wages

An Alternative Sensory World: Witnessing Sunn O)))

You Can’t Distract Us Forever: a Note to Justin Trudeau

George Zimmerman and the Long History of Selling “Souvenirs”

Lesser of Two Evils Vote is Counterproductive and Morally Corrupt

The Biblical House of Cards and the Tempest in a Pee Pot

Volunteers for the Long Haul

What’s Left?

Eyewitness Odessa: Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine

The Politics of Triangulation

Reflections on a Delegation to Imprisoned Palestine

NATO’s Reluctant 2 Percenters

The Bush Administration, U.S. Nuclear War-Fighting Policy & the War On Iraq

Anthropocene vs Capitalocene: a Reflection on the Question, “What Have I Done?”

Why I Am a Communist!

The Political Economy of Dead Meat: Why Mad Cows are the Least of It

Apologize for Nagasaki?

Privatizing the IRS?

From Shame to Pride: My Mexican Immigrant Parents

Not a Typical Mother’s Day: Graham Swift’s “Mothering Sunday”

The Philippines is Desperate For Change Too

Dilma Out: Brazilian Plutocracy Sets 54 Million Votes on Fire

Trade Deals and the Environmental Crisis

Born to be Blue: Clichés About Chet Baker

Chicago Election Official Admits “Numbers Didn’t Match”: Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders Election Fraud Allegations

Radical and Anti-Imperialist Art on the Streets of Cuba

Pataphysical Conditions on the Ground

Life and Death in a Time of Rising Shutoffs

National Park Service Stands Up For Grizzly Bears, Yet Again

Reinvention and Whiplash: Bernie, Hillary, and “Strange Bedfellows” in the Democratic Party

Trumping Up Torture

Walgreens Partners With Big Pharma to Sell More Psychiatric Drugs

The Horrible Ordeal of Gary Tyler: Wrong Place, Wrong Time … and Black

On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism

Louisiana: Number One in Incarceration

Beware Israeli Doublespeak: A Palestinian Perspective on Britain’s ‘Anti-Semitic’ Controversy

Understanding the Republican Insurgency: the Donald Trump Phenomenon

Hillary Clinton, the Conveniently Negligent Queen

Sadiq Khan and the End of Islamophobia in the UK?

British-Based Cubans Face US Blockade in Piano Project

Blue Revolution – Kuwaiti Women Gain Suffrage

Purged, Hacked, Switched: On Election Fraud Allegations in Hillary Clinton vs Bernie Sanders

It’s Time for the Left to Abandon Liberalism Once and For All

Toxic Entanglements: Big Oil’s Democratic Primary Favorite in California