April 2019

Blowing Smoke on the Colstrip Coal Plant

“We Woke Up and You Will Pay!” Algeria in Revolt

Two Incisive Marxist Accountings of Past and Present

A Colossal 21st Century Kleptocracy

Let the People See: Emmett Till, and Why They Don’t See

It’s Time to End US Military Aid to the Philippines

Logging is the Lead Driver of Carbon Emissions From US Forests

Night Parrot Confections: on the Dangers of Discovering the Elusive

Don’t Do Me Like That (Tom Petty cover) – J Mascis

Stop Using Tax Dollars to Kill Bison

Solidarity Without Erasure: Responding to Trump on Puerto Rico

Tweeting at Windmills in the Drunken Forest

A Woman of Valor

The Ghosts of Northern Ireland’s Violent Past Haunt Brexit

In the Wake of Cyclone Idai, the North Has a Climate Debt to Pay

The “Independent” Fed Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

Global NATO: A 70-Year Alliance of Oppressors in Crisis

The Crippling of Britain in the Age of Brexit

Climate Catastrophe and Extinction Rebellion

Lethal Fluctuations: The Death Penalty in Asia

Barbara Lee’s Startling Vote to Boost Military Spending

71 Years Later, Zionist Terrorism Is Alive and Well

Courtney Barnett – Everybody Here Hates You

Wealth and the Invisibility of Human Life

Trump’s Big Lie About Health Care

The Political Left is Bigger Than Imagined: Ask the Feds

A World Divided by Ideologies

Let’s Get ‘Creaturely’: a New Worldview Can Help Us Face Ecological Crises

The Burning of Highlander Center: a Fascist-like Attack

Reflections of a MEChista by a Chicano Scholar Activist

What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren?

Pardon the Confusion! Aid to Central America and the “Crisis” at the Border

Syariah Matters: the Kingdom of Brunei’s Stoning Affair

Trump and the Global Rise of the Christian Right

Committee Votes to Move David Bernhardt’s Nomination as Interior Secretary to Full Senate Vote

This Israeli Election is Between the Right Wing and the Even More Right Wing

Artifishal | The Fight to Save Wild Salmon

From French Revolution to Gaullist Weekend

Lies our Senators Tell Us, or, Whither Congress?

You Can’t Be Pro-Life and Pro-War

Frightwig: 1980s SF Punk Band Still Feminist & Sassy

Warren’s Plan to Rein in Tech Companies

The Anti-Semitic Con

“How Do You Fight the Devil With a Lawyer?” an Interview with Reggae Legend Max Romeo:

The CIA: Surprise, Kill, Vanish

Terms of Asylum and Distraction: Moreno’s Assange Problem

It’s The Vice President, Stupid

Lessons for Progressives from Bob Mueller — and the Valerie Plame Affair

This One Weird Trick for Legalizing Marijuana

An Edifice that Produces Beggars Needs Restructuring