January 2020

Mike Prysner – Episode 144

We Need a New Deal for Housing

Farewell to Two Cuban Revolutionaries: Faure Chomón and Harry (‘Pombo’) Villegas

Trump’s Escalation Imperils Innocents

Incendiary Extinctions: Australian Fires and the Species Effect

Will Boeing Survive as a Civilian Aircraft Maker in 2020?

Being History with Iran

The USA’s System of Checks, Balances and Reality Crumbles as it Seeks War with Iran

The Useless War Powers Act

Come Home America: Stop Policing the World and Waging Endless Wars

GM in India: Faking it on the Astroturf

Our Country, the United States, is a Rogue Nation and Our Leaders are Criminals

Embracing Palestine: How to Combat Israel’s Misuse of “Antisemitism”

A Call to Catholics: Let Us End Our Complicity in War

Understanding France’s General Strike in the Context of the Yellow Vests and Global Class Warfare

Mapache – Life On Fire

The Other Gorgon: Surrealism & Photography, c. 1929

The Importance of Hating All Kinds of Billionaires

Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President, and the Spy

Wilderness for Ranchers: the Bad Owyhee Wilderness Bill

Where’s the Message? Who’s the Messenger?

Iran Loathes Pompeo’s Chabahar Gift

The Embalming of Syria

Righteous Capitalism vs. Cooperative Values

Roaming Charges: All the Pretty Missiles Are Going to Hell

What’s at Stake in Iran for China

“Trust Us Not to be Really Impartial”: Reflections on the Structure and Content of the BBC

Hegemony: the Supreme Law of the Planet

The Current U.S. Approach to Nuclear Weapons Can Only Lead to Armageddon

Despair in America: the Unspoken Issue of the 2020 Election

Iran Will Make Huge Political Gains From This Crisis

As Democracy Crumbles, Silence Speaks Volumes

New Year’s Resolutions for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Innocent Iranian-Americans Pose No Threat

“This is What Empires Do”

Bernie and Iran

Thanks to Trump, Iran has the Upper Hand

Will We Always be This Way?

Fracking and the Metaphysics of Indian-Hating

Main Result of Soleimani Assassination: the Movement to Expel U.S. Forces

The Visitor: Wizards of Loneliness

War With Iran is at Stake–and Democrats’ High Jump Over Low Standards Aren’t Helping

Paradise Islands and Boris Johnson’s Hypocrisy

Pulling Back From War: Trump and the Politics of De-Escalation

What Plutarchy Nurtures

Was Soleimani a Monstrous Kingmaker or Simply an Enabler?

The Global War of Error

Capitalism and the Gut-Wrenching Hijack of India  

Full Impeachments for Trump will Shake Senate Republicans from Kangaroo Court

Mega Droughts Engulf Countries