August 2018

If the Gaza Blockade is Bad, Does That Make Hamas Good?

Dear Driver

The Use and Misuse of Charity: the Luck of the Draw in a Predatory System

“Get Out” and Other American Horror Stories

Declinism Rising: An Interview with Morris Berman  

Cold War in the Sauna: Notes From a Russian American

Trump Derangement Syndrome at the NYT

India: The State of Independence

Guesstimating Our Own Götterdämmerung

Constitutional Rights in Kashmir are Worth Defending

On the Iraqi Protests, Now in Their Second Month 

Want to Create More Jobs? Reduce Fossil Fuel Use

A Black Woman Has to Work 200 More Days to Earn What a White Man Makes in a Year

A Letter to My Child on a Changing Planet

No More Whining on the Yacht

I Grew Up in the Segregated South, For Me Supreme Court Rulings are Personal

Nicaragua: Dynamics of an Interrupted Revolution

Are Haitian Doctors Burned Out?

Roaming Charges: The Grifter’s Lament

The CIA’s Double Standard Revisited

Poverty, Violence and Spiritual Wildfires

Missouri Stands Tall on the Labor Front

Pentagon Spending Funds the Politicians

Who is Jean-Henry Céant, Haiti’s New Prime Minister Nominee?

In Italy, There are 12,000 American Soldiers and 500,000 African Refugees: Connect the Dots 

Banning Alex Jones and Infowars

Corporate Democrats Would Rather Lose Than Include Progressives

Peter Wadhams, Professor Emeritus, Ocean Physics

Pity the Democrats and Republicans

The Blazing Light of Margie Kidder

Militarizing Space: Starship Troopers, Same As It Ever Was

The Great Crisis of Albuquerque

Dying of Consumption While Guzzling Snake Oil: a Realist’s Perspective on the Environmental Crisis

In the Spirit of the Departed Munsees

Even Facebook Sometimes Must Have to Stand Naked

Reclaiming Family Values for the Left

No Attack on Iran, Yet

The Upside of Defeat

Going Home Again to Trump’s America: the New York Emirate on a Bike

Who is Missing the President?

Am I More Nordic Than Members of the Alt Right?

Homo Israeli-Americanus Putting Your Tax Dollars to Work Again

Institutionalizing Intolerance

America’s Secret War on Yemen

Mystery of the Underpaid American Worker

The Media and Our “Ignorant, Credulous and Propagandized People”

Is Russia an Adversary?

Up From Conservatism

The Bonfire of Humanity

Present Perverse Priorities Will Undermine the UN Even Further!