December 2018

War Over Ukraine?

A “Patriotic” Education Study Abroad Program in Viet Nam: God Bless America, Right or Wrong!

Why World War II, Not the New Deal, Ended the Great Depression

See No Evil, See No Good: The Truth Is Not Black and White

World’s Richest Must Radically Change Lifestyles to Prevent Global Catastrophe

Election 2020: I Can Smell the Dumpster Fires Already

Thoughts on the 2018 Elections and Beyond

Foreign Interventions in Revolutionary Russia

The Disasters of War

Undocumented Citizen

Rebranding Bundy

Brexit Britain’s Crisis of Self-Confidence Will Only End in Tears and Rising Nationalism

Reviving the Nuclear Disarmament Movement: a Practical Proposal

Trump and China: Going With Patent Holders Against Workers

A Few Thoughts on Politics and Personal Identity

Tell Your Representative and Senators to Create a GAO Investigation Before Another Base Is Built in Okinawa

The Conspiracy Against Refugees

And That’s The Way It Is: Essential Journalism Books of 2018

Exposing the Crimes of the CIAs Fair-Haired Boy, Paul Kagame, and the Rwandan Patriotic Front

The Case For Chuck Mertz (Not Noam Chomsky) as America’s Leading Intellectual

A Formula for U.S. Election Outcomes

Siloed Thinking, Climate, and Disposable People: COP 24 and Our Discontent

Cancer as Weapon: Poppy Bush’s Radioactive War on Iraq

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Time to De-Colonize Human Rights!

The Return of the Nicaraguan Contras, and the Rise of the Pro-Contra Left

America’s Rigged Tax Collection System

New Deals, From FDR’s to the Greens’

What If We Just Buy Off Big Fossil Fuel? A Novel Plan to Mitigate the Climate Calamity

Questions for Vice-President Bush on Posada Carriles

Republicans Don’t Want Your Vote to Count

Let Us Argue Over Dead Presidents

Is Bush’s Legacy Really Much Different Than Trump’s?

Lessons From South of the Border

Drug Company Execs Make Millions Misleading Cancer Patients. Here’s One Way to Stop Them

‘Get Me Outta Here’: Trump Turns the G20 into the G19

Laws of the Jungle: The Free Market and the Continuity of Change

Two Years and Colombia’s Peace Agreement is in Shreds

Concentration Camps From Here to China

The Progress of Fascism Over the Last Twenty Years

Tribal Justice

Agriculture as Wrong Turn

The Deathly Insect Dilemma

The McCain and Bush Death Tours: Establishment Rituals in How to be a Proper Ruler

An Inverted Bond Yield Curve: Is a Recession Coming?

Getting Pushed Off the Capitalist Cliff

Spare Me the American Tears for the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi

A Homily: the Lord Has a Controversy With His People?

The Swamp Stinks: Trump & Washington’s Rot

The Bomb that Did Not Detonate: Julian Assange, Manafort and The Guardian

Noam Chomsky Turns 90