August 2019

David Swanson: Nukes- What Are They Good For?

Prison Classrooms Reflect White Supremacy

Let’s Make the Next Debates Good for Something

Diary: Franketienne

Stop Blaming Cows and Start Targeting the Corporations That are Destroying the Amazon

The Great Cost and Myth of U.S. Defense Spending

The Amazon Inferno

Beyond Protest

Real News or Fake News?

The Dream is Dead Not Just for Dreamers, But for All Americans

The Primary Contradiction: Corporate Power vs. Progressive Populism

Behind Islamophobia Is a Global Movement of Anti-Semites

In Defence of Gramsci: Geopolitical Morphing and Austerity from an Outsider’s Perspective

The Hitler-Stalin Pact, Reconsidered

The Troubling Relationships Between Bolsonaro and Dictatorships

Sex Work and the 2020 Presidential Campaign

Judge Marks and Mass Incarceration in the Middle District of Alabama

Leo Gerard, Single Payer, Highmark Health, and the Corporatist Labor Movement

Name and Shame Big Political Contributors

Why Some People Don’t Trust Doctors

Greetings From Echo Park

DNC Kills Climate Debate Compromise

The Rise of the ‘Rise of the Global Right’

Making a Killing From Killing

Dreams of Mitch McConnell 

Why I’m a Proud Anti-American

Bankrupt and Irrelevant: the Presidential Debates and Four Recent Studies on Pentagon Spending

Humanism – Helping People

As Schools Open

Humanity Denied: What Is Missing from the Omar, Tlaib Story

Raping Words After Raping Women

The Tragic Comedy in “Buying Greenland” from Denmark

Unplowed Tallgrass Prairie: Rarer Than Old-Growth Forest

A Voting Calculus

Make America … More Like Canada

California Continue to Allow Oil Wastewater Injection into Protected Groundwater

Reading the Tea Leaves in Hong Kong

Don’t Subsidize Companies That Silence Workers

Palin’s Flute, Obama’s Voice

Karl Marx and Religion

Senator Cotton on the Need to Buy Greenland

Violent White Supremacists Threaten Basic Civil Rights — and Our Lives

What to Ask Before Calling Out

Trump’s Camps: the Odious Comparison

Kashmiri Pride and Dignity: My Grandfather’s Dream Will Not Be Forgotten

In Cybersecurity, Decentralization and Diversity are Strength

Polishing Turds: Lord Bell’s Public Relations Revolution

Epstein-Barr Syndrome: Juris-prurience

Global Climate Movement: Darkest Before the Dawn

Night and Day, Being and Nonbeing