September 2018

Pot as Political Speech

Why Did Global Economic Performance Deteriorate in the 1970s?

The UK’s Snoopers’ Charter Has Been Dealt a Serious Blow

Casting Kavanaugh: The Trump Supreme Court Drama

The New Iraq WMD: Russian Interference in US Elections

MC5 – Ramblin Rose/Kick Out The Jams/Looking At You – July 1970

Serve The Servants (Live On “Tunnel”, Rome, Italy/1994)

Green Capitalism Rears Its Head at Global Climate Action Summit

Things That Make Sports Fans Uncomfortable

“Taxpayer Money” Threatens Medicare-for-All (And Every Other Social Program)

Brexit is Coming, But Which Will It Be?

Iran: “Snapping Back” Sanctions and the Threat of War

Questions, Questions Where are the Answers?

Deplatforming Germaine Greer

Crime Comes Knocking

Why Israel Demolishes: Khan Al-Ahmar as Representation of Greater Genocide

Weaponized Dreams? The Curious Case of Robert Moss

Why Christine Ford vs. Brett Kavanaugh is a Train Wreck You Can’t Look Away From

Why Women Don’t Report Sexual Assault

Nike Says “Believe in Something,” But Can It Sacrifice Something, Too?

An Environmental 9/11: the EPA’s Gutting of Methane Regulations

Palestine: The Testbed for Trump’s Plan to Tear up the Rules-Based International Order

Don’t Count the Left Out Just Yet

On Climate, the Centrists are the Deplorables

Amazon is Making Workers Tweet About How Great It is to Work There

Roaming Charges: the Chickenhawks Have Finally Come Back Home to Roost!

Pat Robertson’s Hurricane “Miracle”

The Department of Demonization

From Citizens to Customers: the Corporate Customer Service Culture in America 

US Harasses Cuba Amid Mysterious Circumstances

With or Without Kavanaugh, The United States Is Anti-Choice

As the Capitalist World Turns: From Empire to Imperialism to Globalization?

Rabbi, Rabbi, Where For Art Thou Rabbi?

Laquan McDonald is Being Tried for His Own Racist Murder

A Victory for Historical Accuracy and the Peace Movement: Not One Emmy for Ken Burns and “The Vietnam War”

Has Something Evil This Way Come?

Disarm Trident Walk Ends in Georgia

The Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage: Revolutionary Theories and Anticapitalist Dreams of Subcommandante Marcos

Logging and Climate Change: Oregon is Appalachia and Timber is Our Coal

In Montgomery County PA, It’s Often a Jury of White People

Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9”: Entertaining Film, Crappy Politics

Faith, Madness, or Death

Priorities of the Time: Peace

Is Paris 2015 Already Underwater?

Will There Ever be Justice for Rohingya Muslims?

Hurricane Florence and 9.7 Million Pigs

The Day the Valves Turned: Defending the Pipeline Protesters

The Accusation That Wouldn’t Go Away

Israel’s Anti-Semitism Smear Campaign

It Should Not Be A He Said She Said Verdict