December 2017

Big Media on Last Thursday’s Vote in Catalonia: “Never Mind”

Homeland Security’s Multibillion Dollar Comedy Show

Africa Awaits the Aftershock After Defying President Trump in the United Nations General Assembly

For Year End Charitable Giving—Some Favorites

Year in Review: Will 2018 Usher in a New Palestinian Strategy?

Republicans, Martin Luther, and Machiavelli

US Ally Uganda Attacks Congo’s Beni Territory

Interview with Mexican Reporter Emilio Gutiérrez, Who Fears Death If ICE Deports Him

Go Ask Alice: the Curious Case of “Alice Donovan”

The Trump Tax Scam: Corruption Rules

Lenin Moreno Steers Ecuador Rightward and Betrays the Revolution that Elected Him

Revolutionary and State Violence: The Chickens Always Come Home to Roost

Spanish Media Side With Fascist

“Xi the Dictator:” a Myth Born of Ignorance and Prejudice

The Menacing Insect Omen

10 Good Things About a TERRIBLE Year

In An Age of Hollow Men and Existential Angst, Re-read Sartre

Trump as Balfour

Cry, Beloved Country

Birds and Hopes in the New Year

At a Loss For Words

Why are Ugandan Troops Amassed at the Congo Border Again?

In the Occupied Territory, Two Kinds of Justice

A Revealing Conversation With Rocksteady Rulers Keith And Tex

Let Yemenis Live

Trump and the Meat Tycoon: Backstory to a Commutation

Those Tax-and-spend Republicans

The Petro-Yuan Bombshell

The Grinches Who Stole Jerusalem

Go Ask Alice: the Curious Case of “Alice Donovan”

More Than Just One Train Wreck

The Real Story Behind Katharine Graham and “The Post”

The Revival of the Commonwealth: an Opportunity for Further Exploitation or a Time to Correct Past Wrongs?

Not by Bread Alone 

Clear-cuts, Wildfires and Insecticides: My 2017 Pot Farm Observations

Let’s Unite and Demonstrate the True Meaning of Christmas

Trump’s Fetus, aka, Forbidden Words

The General’s Tongue

Trump, Jerusalem and International Law

When Moore is Much, Much Less

“A Total Horror Show:” the New Plan for Yemen

Needed: A Meter for Trump’s Lies Per Minute (LPM)

Tips Should Go to Workers Not Their Bosses

Remembering Joseph and Mary on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Turning Perpetrators into Healers

Music and Mayhem: Guthrie & Dylan Confront a System That Kills Its Own

If I Were Trump, I’d Totally Fire Robert Mueller

Into Africa: Who Killed Hammarskjöld?

The Message of the Manger Beyond the Myth

Nuclear Betrayal in the UK