October 2019

The Lebanese Uprising Won’t Prevail While Sectarian Elites Remain in Control

My Exodus From the Northern California Fires

Canada’s NDP Looks Like the US’s GOP: Voter Disenfranchisement in the Parkdale-High Park Riding

The Crucifixion of Jesus Continues in Kings Bay Plowshares Trial

A Deluge of Things: Von Humboldt, Leonardo and the Confounding of Nature

Chicago Cops: The Torture Machine, Unending

Oulipo Goes to Japan

Trump and the Politics of the 2020 Census

Review: Vasily Grossman’s “Stalingrad”

Roaming Charges: A Place Where Nobody Knows

Old White Men Like Me Need to Shut Up and Step Aside

The Essence of War

She Deserves Our Support: Betty McCollum Wants US to Stop Subsidizing Torture of Palestinian Children

Ecuador’s President Moreno Struggles to Buy Off Fake Leftists

Beirut is Burning: Why I Don’t Blame the Rioters

The NBA’s China Fiasco Shows What Businesses Value

The Racial Wealth Divide Hurts the Entire Middle Class

Sexual Misconduct and the Plague of “Himpathy”

Life in America’s Child Care Deserts

Fire and Logging Myths

Brand Trudeau Wins a Second Term

NGOs are Too Weak to Halt the Catastrophic Pesticides Crisis

Fun, Games and American Priorities

Blame the Economic Policies, Not the Robots

Excluding the Civic Community Excludes Life-Savers

A Tale of Two Phone Calls: an Impeachment Puzzle

The DNC Versus Democracy

Military Madness Meets the Counterculture: a Personal Tale

Colombia Diary: Higher Ed Under Threat

All That is Holy is Profaned: Beyond Ruling Class Trumpeachment

Rethinking the Looming Threat of Neoliberal Fascism

Scorsese’s Lament

Five Questions for Elizabeth Warren

Impeachment: Trump Has Already Confessed to “High Crimes”

Patterns of Occupied Palestine: Part 3 of Uncountable

The Dialogue of Divisiveness

The NBA, China and Trump

The Paradox of Cleanliness 

Trump and the Conman Theory of History

Will Trump Leave Quietly?

Prerequisite to Grassroots Campaigns Facing Impossible Odds

Joe Biden and the Lackawanna Blues

Trials and Tribulations with a Dead Press

The House Freedom for What Caucus

Nations, Nationalism, and Non-Nation Political Movements

What the Chicago Teacher Union and the GM Auto Workers Strikes Teach Us

A Soldier or a “Killing Machine”?

A Blatant Disregard for Human Dignity

Honneth’s Resolution: Philosophical Grounding for the Emancipation of Labour

Gen X Faces a Bleak, Impoverished Old Age