June 2017

Future Shock: Imagining India

Seventeen-Year-Old Nabra Hassanen Was Murdered

Tritium: Toxic Tip of the Nuclear Iceberg

Travels Around Trump’s America

Animals at the Roger Waters Concert

Hersh’s Big Scoop: Bad Intel Behind Trump’s Syria Attack

Heart of Darkness: Observations on a Torture Notebook

Remembering Native American Civil Rights Pioneer, Lehman Brightman

North Koreans in South Korea Face Imprisonment for Wanting to Return Home

Why Democrats Lose: the Case of Jon Ossoff

Prog Rock: Pomp and Circumstance

Parallel in Significance

The Road to Understanding Syria Goes Through Iraq

The Oily Politics of Unity: Owen Smith as Northern Ireland Shadow Secretary

Andrew Jackson and the American Psyche

Review: Malin Persson Giolito’s “Quicksand”

Trump’s Attack on Cuba

If North Korea Didn’t Exist US Would Create It

Companies Can Either Make Things or Make CEOs Rich

Our President’s Word Wars

Trump on Cuba: If Obama Did It, It’s Bad

The Poverty State of Mind and the State’s Obligations to the Poor

Democrats in the Dead Zone

Death on the Road: Memory in Tim Winton’s Shrine

Moving Closer to Doom

What to Wonder Now

“Realpolitik” in Berlin: Merkel Fawns Over Kissinger

All Signs Point to Trump’s Coming War With Iran

The Sex Offender: the 21st Century Witch

What’s Really New About the Gig Economy?

Fear and Loathing on the Afghan Silk Road

Borders Versus Memory

The Poor Need Not Apply

The FBI’s “Operation Backfire” and the Case of Briana Waters

Analyzing the Failures of Syriza

Trump, Qatar and the Danger of Total Confusion

Savage Calculations: On the Exoneration of Philando Castile’s Killer

Putin Tries to Avoid a Wider War With the US

Why I Reject Western Courts and Justice

Grenfell Tower: A Disaster Waiting to Happen

On Hidden Cultural Corruptors

The “Democracies” We Deserve

Useless Idiots or Useful Collaborators?

The Castile Doctrine: Cops Without Consequences

Cannibal Corpse

The Russian Nexus

Hong Kong: the Chinese Meant Business

Trump: the Birth of the Hero

The Routinization of Mass Shootings in America

We Need a Mass Movement to Demand Radical Progressive Change