August 2019

The Fourth Afghan War is About to Escalate

The Amazon or Amazon

The Death of Political Satire

“Hereby Ordered”: On Trump, Capital, Fascism, and China in a World on Fire

Nuclear Lands: A Story of Plutonium

Deep Time and the Green River, Floating

Capital in the 21st Century

Congo’s Patrice Lumumba: The Winds of Reaction in Africa

“Nuance” in Politics and Public Policy? No Thanks

The Significance of the “1619 Project”

Is Environmental Protection Possible?

The Chicago 8 Trial, Revisited

How Agriculture and Ranching Subvert the Re-Wilding of America

American Apocalypse

Kashmir: Decentralize Power and Revive Regional Political Institutions

What China’s Leadership is Really Worried About: Rising Debt

“Based on the Fact She Won’t Sell Me Greenland, I’m Staying Home”

Educators Actually Do “Work” in the Summer

Jewish Settlers Rule the Roost in Israel, But at What Price?

The War on Indigenous People is a War on the Biosphere Itself

Tears / Ayizan Velekete

Beware of the Gun-Lover-in-Chief

The White-Nationalist Great Fear

400 Years After Slavery’s Start, No More Band-Aids

What It’s Like to Grow Up Hunted

Saving the Planet Means Fighting Bipartisan Corruption

As the School Year Starts, I’m Grateful for the ADA

Brazil: From Global Leader to U.S. Lapdog

Rethinking the GDR

What Netanyahu’s Travel Ban Has Revealed

Farmers Need a Bill of Rights

On Those Downward Jobs Revisions

Mr. Trump Goes to Kensington

General Jah Mikey: “I Just Love That Microphone, Man”

They Don’t Make Republicans Like the Great Paul Findley Anymore!

Trump and Endangered Species, Wildlife and Human

Whither the Resistance to our Capitalist Overlords?

Tapping into People Power

As Long as Enemies of the State Keep Dying Before Trial, No One Should Trust the State

Finding the Comrades: Maintaining Precarious Sanity In Insane Times

Recession Now, Please

Notes on Inauthenticity in a Creeping Fascist Nuthouse

Earth 4C Hotter

The Realism and Unrealism of the Green New Deals

Why I Stopped Being White (and You Should Too)

Sick of Being a Guinea Pig

China’s Hong Kong Nightmare, and the US Response

Amazon Fires Put the Planet at Risk

Slaves to the Clock

Moral Cantatas