December 2021

J. Edgar Hoover’s Legacy: Spying On Democracy

JFK Revisited: Oliver Stone and the New JFK Fact Pattern

Roaming Charges: When the Old Anomaly Became the New Normal–2021, the Year in Climate

How CIA Plots Undermined African De-Colonization

Brazil, Amazon, World: Sociopathy vs Democracy

Who Owns the Clouds? The Adventures of the Chinese and Me in Changing the Weather

Pentagon Fails Audit (Again!)

Yes, There Were 10 Good Things About 2021

Why Leftists are Joining Hands With the Right in Opposing Vaccine Mandates

O Lenderking, the Lies You Bring: a Look at Biden’s Special Envoy for Yemen

2021 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: The Pink Tide Rises Again

Remembering My Time With Bishop Tutu

Bright Green Lies Torpedoes Greens

The Tutor

British Colonialism and How India and Pakistan Lost Freedom

A Shuffling of the Cards in Germany

Intrepid Trips, Indeed

Macedonian Ramble: Hell’s Foundations at Galliopoli

How A Boy Called Christmas Converted Me to the Politics of Greed

Ideological Struggle: Language in the Era of COVID-19

On Manhood and Vaccines

Movement Music After the Movement Fades: Reflections on Phil Ochs

Looking Up From Don’t Look Up: Adam McKay and End Times

Bells Tolling for Russian Memory

A Prescription for Resistance to the Bully of Christmas: Make Art

Who Will Guard the Guardians?

Creativity in Nonviolent Resistance

Seasonal insomniacs in Times of Climate Chaos

Democracy with United States Characteristics

The True Problem With the GOP’s Patricia Morgan

Eleven People Who Didn’t Suck In 2021

Don’t Look Up (at the Film Critics)

Go Bonobos in 2022

Thoughts on “Don’t Look Up”

Mobbing Logic

A Perfect Storm Has Elon Musk Paying $11 Billion in Tax

Recovering Conscience: A Conversation with Carole Sargent

Booked Up: Ban These Books, Please (the Writers Need the Money)

Start Treating Yellowstone Bison the Way They Deserve

On Foreign Policy, Biden Should Have Taken Golf Lessons

Why Trump May Face Criminal Charges

“Don’t Look Up” at that Movie;  At Least Not to Fight Climate Change!

What is Log4j? The Latest Internet Vulnerability

They Don’t Want Us Looking Up…

A Thorn in Biden’s Side: the Revolving Door Project

Crimes Against Culture

Look Up, Down and Everywhere

Arundhati Roy on the Media, Vaccine Inequity, Authoritarianism in India

BoJo’s Tories Toy With Omicron