August 2019

David Swanson: Nukes- What Are They Good For?

Why I’m a Proud Anti-American

As Schools Open

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

Epstein-Barr Syndrome: Juris-prurience

The Troubling Relationships Between Bolsonaro and Dictatorships

Behind Islamophobia Is a Global Movement of Anti-Semites

Unplowed Tallgrass Prairie: Rarer Than Old-Growth Forest

Greetings From Echo Park

The Amazon Inferno

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

Violent White Supremacists Threaten Basic Civil Rights — and Our Lives

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

Karl Marx and Religion

The Tragic Comedy in “Buying Greenland” from Denmark

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

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

Humanism – Helping People

Beyond Protest

Prison Classrooms Reflect White Supremacy

Senator Cotton on the Need to Buy Greenland

Polishing Turds: Lord Bell’s Public Relations Revolution

Real News or Fake News?

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

Raping Words After Raping Women

What to Ask Before Calling Out

Make America … More Like Canada

Name and Shame Big Political Contributors

In Cybersecurity, Decentralization and Diversity are Strength

Sex Work and the 2020 Presidential Campaign

Trump’s Camps: the Odious Comparison

Making a Killing From Killing

Judge Marks and Mass Incarceration in the Middle District of Alabama

The Primary Contradiction: Corporate Power vs. Progressive Populism

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

A Voting Calculus

The Rise of the ‘Rise of the Global Right’

Why Some People Don’t Trust Doctors

Don’t Subsidize Companies That Silence Workers

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

Diary: Franketienne

Let’s Make the Next Debates Good for Something

The Hitler-Stalin Pact, Reconsidered

Reading the Tea Leaves in Hong Kong

Palin’s Flute, Obama’s Voice

Dreams of Mitch McConnell 

California Continue to Allow Oil Wastewater Injection into Protected Groundwater

DNC Kills Climate Debate Compromise

PG&E Free: Revolutionary Energy at Stone Edge Farm in Sonoma, California

The Reality Brokers (or the Rise of the Automagicians)