November 2019

Corporate Mammon: Amazon and the Seattle Council Elections

The Dubious Case of Washing Machines and Student Performance

Veterans’ Day: Four Poems

How the Syrian Democratic Forces Were Suddenly Transformed into “Kurdish Forces”

The Secret of Cuba’s Success: International Solidarity

Class War Violence: Centralia 1919

“Other Than Honorable?” Veterans With “Bad Paper” Seek Long Overdue Benefits

David Cameron and the Decline of British Leadership

The Greatest Scam in History: How the Energy Companies Took Us All

Most Iraq and Afghanistan Vets now Regret the Mission

New Mexico Postcard: The Call of the Sandhill Cranes

The Problems with the “Swiss Model”

My Friend Was Murdered for Trying to Save the Amazon

Middle East: a Complex Re-alignment

From Canada’s Election to Public Action: Beyond the Moral Tumor of Alberta Tar-Sands

Repatriate the Children of the Jihad

Flying Leaps, 30 Years Later

From President to Autocrat

A New Disease Big Meat Doesn’t Want You to Know About

A Long Overdue Debate on Medicare-for-All

Illegal Loggers Murder Indigenous Forest Guardian in Brazilian Amazon

30 Years Ago, American Nun Dianna Ortiz Was Kidnapped and Tortured in Guatemala, She’s Still Waiting for Truth & Justice

Just Another Whitewash: the Federal Investigation of the Firestone Fracking Fire in Colorado 

The Epstein Story Continues to Unravel

One Way to Honor Vets? Protect the Postal Service

And the Armies That Remained Suffer’d: Veterans, Moral Injury and Suicide

Sierra Club Takes a Commendable Turn on Population, Climate Change, and Inequality

Roaming Charges: Enter Sondland

Republicans, Not Russians, Threaten Our Elections

If Money is Tight, Climate Change is Your Issue

The Feds are Paying Big Oil to Pollute

Left is the New Right, or Why Marx Matters

Growing Ecological Civilization in China

The Real Constitutional Crisis: The Constitution

Curfew Panda

Neoliberalism’s Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World

Schweitzer’s “Reverence for Life” in the Age of Trump and Modi

The Crass Warfare of Billionaires Against Sanders and Warren

Statement of Solidarity with the People of Haiti

Remove the Cows Not the Conifers

The Contemptible Secretary DeVos

Watching My Students Turn Into Soldiers of Empire

2020: The Incipient Bet

Ignoring Climate Catastrophes

Eating the Amazon

A Tight Grip on Our Nuclear Toys

Progressives Care More About Taking the Democratic Party Than Getting Rid of Trump

Pacifica’s WBAI Back on the Air But Fight for Non-Corporate Radio Continues

Nelson Algren and the Pathologies of Life in the USA

What Rises to the Level of Impeachability?