September 2017

Tupac Shakur on Life and Death

The US Economy is Failing

Can’t We Have an Honest Conversation About Vietnam?

Beastly Humans and Humane Beasts

Hezbollah has Launched the Initial Phase of the Next Israel-Hezbollah War

The Purposeful Killing of Civilians in War: Voices From Vietnam 

Will Hugh Hefner Be Remembered as a Visionary or a Flesh Peddler?

Lifting the Driving Ban: Saudi Arabia’s Glitzy Stunt

Don’t Let Them Ban Our Books

“Pruning-Hooks Made Out of Swords:” The Case for a US Department of Peace

The Landscapes of Capital

Trump Cripples Science… and Golf?

“The Rule of Law Such As Ours” (And as Imposed in Catalonia)

America’s Role in the World

New Research into Grizzly Bears and Homo Sapiens Pataguccus Cuntus

Trump and the NFL

The Federal Reserve Board and Aid to Low-Income Families

Rebel Blood: Che’s Irish Heritage

Grenfell and After

Deportations and the Harassment of an Irish Group Traveling to West Bank

20 Years Later: ‘Masterminds’ of One of the Largest Bank Heists in U.S. History

Honoring Octavius V. Catto: Another History Lesson Trump Will Ignore

The Historic Vote to Abolish Vivisection

The Courage to Kneel

Thoughts on Becoming an American Citizen

The Russia-Blamers Think You’re Stupid

Review: Sasha Abramsky’s “Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream”

Death of the Playboy: Hugh Hefner’s World

Sidelining the Sidemen

Labour Party Conference and the Great Antisemitism Stitch-Up

Memento Mori: a Requiem for Puerto Rico

Local Solar & Batteries can Quickly Replace Fossil Fuels, Save Billions – and Help Slow the Climate Crisis

Western Hypocrisy on the Kurds

When Fascism Won’t Die: Why We Need to Support Catalonia

The Tyranny of the “Deplorable” Minority

Excuse Me, Which Dictator Are You Talking About?

Fanon’s Knife and Puerto Rico

The Pledge of Allegiance is Un-American

Armies, Addicts and Spooks: the CIA in Vietnam and Laos

Movies of the Semi-Great Depression

Should Making a Music Video Keep Luke Scarmazzo in Prison?

Wasted Lives: The Worldwide Tragedy of Youth Suicide

Killing Kaepernick’s Movement

Nuclear Plants Plus Hurricanes: Disasters Waiting to Happen

Saudi Women May Soon Be Behind the Wheel, But Still Not in the Drivers’ Seat

“Bag-the-Fag”: Entrapping Sex Offenders 

Tom Russell in the Heart of the Folk Hotel

Punishing the Media: the Fantasies of the CIA and William J. Casey

Patti Smith: People Have the Power

Human Rights: the Latest Weapon Against Venezuela