January 2021

The Curse of Memory: a Ruralist’s Lament

India’s Farmer Strike: “We Have Marched Before, We Will March Again”

Biden Era Full of Challenges

Between Naiveté and Cynicism

Out of the Tunnel

The Future of U.S. Democracy Promotion

Bridgerton, Jane Austen and Today’s Wealth Dynasties

Not Knowing What You Stand For: Dr. Birx and Public Health

While America Was Sleeping

Why We Can’t Give Up on the Idea of a World Free From Nuclear Weapons

Beyond Slogans: Palestinians Need an Urgent, Centralized Strategy to Counter Israel in Africa

The ‘Humanitarian’ Left Still Ignores the Lessons of Iraq, Libya and Syria to Cheer on More War

At the End of the Barrel of a Gun: From Voluntown, Connecticut to D.C.

Emma and Emmanuel: a Marriage Through Prison Walls

Fixing the Language of Journalism to Reflect Reality

Famine Approaching: Tigray, Ethiopia

The UK’s Pandemic Gets Worse

China: Enemy Du Jour?  But Why?

Capitol’s Apocalypse

The Ambler Road Poses a Threat to Alaska’s Wildlands

Platforming Fascists

In Defense of DJ Trump

Biden’s Presidency Has Already Failed

Bernie at Yalta: a Glyph

Witnessing “Camp Auschwitz” in the US Capitol Implores us to Remember “the Forgotten Holocaust” of the Roma

Emil Draitser

Greed in the Suites, From Walgreens to Walmart

Haunting Melodies

Three Wednesdays In January

Political “Unity” is Neither Necessary Nor Desirable

When Biden’s “New” America Confronts the New China

The Political Fallout From the Capitol Hill Invasion May Prove More Significant Than 9/11

Convict Donald Trump and the Bipartisan System That Put Him Into Power

Echoes and Elections

Masking Up Under Biden: the Perils of Tribalism, Bureaucracy and Lawsuits

The ‘Insurrection’ and Its Discontents: ‘American Exceptionalism’ Revisited 

Rob Malley for Iran Envoy: A Test Case for Biden’s Commitment to Diplomacy

The NYT’s Has Not Heard of China’s Vaccine (Or Russia’s or India’s)

Jimmy Dore and The Boogaloo Boys Will SHUT DOWN The Black Vote | Tim Black

Basic Notes on Victoria (“Fuck the EU!”) Nuland

Let Nuke Plants Run for 100 Years?

Activists Occupy Site of Proposed Lithium Mine in Nevada

I Assert the Right to Live Free From Disinformation

Why History Matters: the Legacy of Slavery

New Auto Safety Report Demands Biden Strengthen Federal Programs Now

My Favorite Moderate

The Republican Dam on Immigration is Cracking, Now They Must Pay for Their Racism

The Fall of Trump

Indirect Deaths: The Massive and Unseen Costs of America’s Post-9/11 Wars

Agroecology and Post-COVID Plunder