July 2021

What’s in a Name? The Peculiar Perfection of the Lesser Prairie Chicken

US Peace Activists in Germany Join Call for Withdrawal of US Nuclear Weapons

Schumer Plays the Pot Card…at Last

From Covid Relief to Spooky Action Under Your Nose

Billionaire Pandemic Wealth Gain Could Pay For Biden’s American Families Plan

Malicious Aid: The Real Root Cause of the Border Crisis

Letting Go: How Do Idols Say Good-Bye?

Change Doesn’t Happen Without Disruption: An Interview with Masada Disenhouse

Note to Joe: Try These Two Easy Tricks to Promote Freedom in Cuba

Who Authorized America’s Wars? And Why They Never End

The Bureau of Labor Statistics Counted Only Eight Strikes in 2020, Payday Report Counted 1,200

Protesting the War in Afghanistan: We Finally Gave Up

Reckoning and Reparations in Afghanistan

Gaza’s Families Suffering Another Summer of Needless Suffering

Australia’s Hermit Nation Strategy Unravels

Defend the Cuba Revolution and Struggle for More Socialism, Not Less!

Intervention in Haiti?

The Left’s Curious Silence About the Medicare For All Demonstrations

Engaging With Extremism

Borges’ Singular Sense of Humor

Evo Morales Denounces a new US-led Plan Condor

Bernie Sanders Has Bonded with President Biden. Is That a Good Thing?

The GOP’s Truly Morbid Election Strategy

Teaching American Un-Exceptionalism: Draft Law for a Mandated Civics Curriculum

Don’t Go Small on Infrastructure

If We Can Bail Out Wall Street, We Can Invest in Our Children

Oprah and Chomsky: Is There Room for Both on the American Left?

Bach on Fire

Our Minds Untethered

Full Blown Technocratic Tooldom Ahead Under a Thoroughly Nasty Neoliberal Ontology.  Alas

Howard Zinn – The Myth of American Exceptionalism

The Lesson of Afghanistan is the Lesson of Vietnam We Forgot

How Nations Turn Evil

After 20 Years and $2.26 Trillion, the US has Lost Its Longest War in Afghanistan

Right-Wing Twisting of Critical Race Theory

What’s a Left Wing to Do?

U.S.-China Near-War Status Report

The Myth That Meat is Essential for Human Health Could Harm Us All

Sports Teams: the Everlasting Tax Shelter for Billionaires

You Can’t Drink Oil: Wasting Freshwater for Fracking and Drilling in California

What Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta Means for Charities…and Our Democracy

A Losing Game: Letting Corporate Polluters Off the Hook

Freedom-Loving as Denial Of Truth and Freedom

Bombast in the Black Sea: the Latest British Provocation

Boris Johnson Goes Full-On Bolsonaro

Washington’s Weaponization of Protests in Cuba Takes Its Regime Change Efforts to New Heights of Hypocrisy

Internet Censorship: The Real Monopoly Threat

On “Gain of Function” Research, COVID-19 and the Shortcomings of the Biological Weapons Convention: an Interview with Laurie Garrett

“My Name is Called Disturbance:” the Student Movement to Get Stanford Out of the Vietnam War

America’s Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq – and Iran?