October 2017

Four Dead in Niger. Anybody Know Why?

The Sad Life of the Conservative Film Critic

The Origins of the Cuban-American Mafia in Miami

The FBI’s Forgotten Criminal History

Is Xi Jinping Attaining Cult Status Like Mao Zedong?

The Brazilian Trump’s Visit to Washington Ends in Failure

Rural American Vignettes

Trump’s Shameful Enablers

Setback for the French Germanophiles

Inside Hitler’s Office: Still Lessons to be Learned From World War II

CIA in Afghanistan: Operation Phoenix Redux?

The American War

Trump’s War Against His Own Voters

Insider Threat Program Training and Trump’s War on Leaks

The Art of Trolling – an Analysis of a Toxic Trend

Hillary Clinton: Cold Creepiness with a Side of Corruption

Congress Can Stop War with North Korea

An Independent Thinker’s Guide to the Tax Debate

There’s No Defense for Founding Fathers Who Practiced Slavery

The Tragedy of American Foreign Policy

The Global Food and Health Crisis: Monsanto’s Science is Bogus

Dying for the Empire is Not Heroic

Looking for a Glass of Water and a Place to Shit

Careening Toward Nuclear War: the Political Paralysis of Europe, Russia and China

Puerto Rico and the Jones Act Conundrum

Will the Military Throw the Book at Bowe Bergdahl?

Hidden Danger of Ecological Collapse

Censorship in the Digital Age

The Fiction of Kurt Andersen’s “Fantasyland”

John Brennan’s Police State USA

Kirkuk the Consolation Prize?

Harvey Weinstein and the Politics of Hollywood

Mr. Toxicity Zaps America

The Choreography of Human Dignity: Blade Runner 2049 and World War Z

The Greatest Indonesian Painter and “Praying to the Pig”

Two Soviet Spies Who Deserve a Posthumous Nobel Peace Prize

Organized Chaos and Confusion as Political Control

From Jamaica to Knees

Male Sexual Violence: As American as Cherry Pie

Why is Nobelist Economist Richard Thaler so Jovial?

Kirkuk Redux Was a Bloodless Offensive, Here’s Why

Venezuela Regional Elections: Chavismo in Triumph, Opposition in Disarray and Media in Denial

The Blueprint for the Most Radical City on the Planet

Stop the Idiocy! Stop the Mattis-ness!

Immigration and the American Political Imagination

Socialism, Land and Banking: 2017 Compared to 1917

Talley Sergent Aaron Scheinberg Coca Cola Single Payer and the Failure of Democrats in West Virginia

Faith and the World: the Baha’i Vision

Why We Shouldn’t Let Hillary Haunt Us … And Why Having a Vision Matters

Australia’s Citizenship Bill Fails