July 2019

We are the Losers: Played Again by King Donald

Elections in the Era of Charismatic Politics

Piddling in the Think Tank

Speaking Truth to Power

The Book of Palestine: National Liberation vs Endless Negotiations

The Epstein Affair: Take #2

The Inhumane Treatment of Migrants Is Not New

Deconstructing Elliott Abrams on Venezuela

America First and Diverse

Marianne Williamson is Right About American Elections

Why Aren’t the Democrats Talking About Ending Patent Financed Drug Research?

When Nature’s Feedback Loops Fail

The D.O.A. Peace Movement Ain’t Marching Much Anymore, But We Did

High Cost of Nukes Even Higher If Medical Expenses Included

Thinking About Fully Automated Luxury Communism

The US Imperium Comes Out

The Seizure of an Iranian Tanker and the Lethal Toll of Sanctions

Dogs of War Howl for Blood in Iran While Americans Cheer US Bombers on July 4

Do We Need a Dictatorship to Respond to Climate Change?

Reparations for Millennials

Conservation Groups Challenge Logging and Burning Project in Idaho Roadless Area 

Going Nuclear in the Antipodes: Australia’s Megadeath Complex

When We See Him: Trump and the Central Park Five

5G Complexities and National Security

Their Deplorables and Ours

In Afghanistan, We Have Three Dreams

Faulty by Design: the UN Report on Human Rights in Venezuela

The Ethics Lesson (or: To Kill a Shark)

The International Spy Museum in DC: Lies, Spies, and Paranoia

Highly Recommended Books for 2019 Summer Reading

Ship of Fools: Liner Notes

Joe Biden’s Alternative White Reality

Provoking World War III with Iran and a U.S. History of Provocation

Thoughts on the Impromptu Kim-Trump Summit

Bruce Dixon: A Giant Walks On

Joe Biden is a Collaborator

North Korea Nuclear Freeze? Finally, a Realistic Proposal

Pessimism, Optimism and the Role of Intellectuals

Love and Rights: Contingent or Unconditional? 

Post-Bouteflika Algeria: For a Democratic Transition

If These be Men…

Forest Service Has Duty to Educate on Grizzly Bear Risks

The IMF and World Bank: Partners in Backwardness

Trump Can’t Blame His Own Cruelty on Obama’s Flawed Record

Doubling Down: The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not In Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way.

Roaming Charges: When the Band Plays “Hail to the Chief,” They Point the Tank at You, Lord

We Have the Money to Fix Our Food System

What Sanctions Mean for My Iranian-American Family

Sanctions: Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy

Our Immigrant Prisons are an Atrocity