June 2022

Berlin Munich Kyiv

Unthinkable Rhetoric: Nuclear Weapons and the Ukraine War

If Poverty is a Moral Issue, Then the U.S. is Bankrupt

The Critical Theory of Pope Francis II: The Gospel of Creation (Laudato Si)

 Cautionary Tale From an Irish Republican

‘Show’ Trial of Foreign Fighters in Donetsk Breaks with International Law and Could Itself be a War Crime

Progressive Democrats Don Helmets, Embrace US-Russia Proxy War

Why Peace and Disarmament are at the Heart of Nonalignment

Can We Finally Start Dealing With Gun Violence?

Diving Down to Earth

The Great British Privatization Heist, Some Notes

Merrick Garland’s “Existential” Choice

Crypto-Carnage Hits Every Asset Class Tied to Crypto

Weapons of Faith: The Arming of American Schools

An Argument for Deheroizing Democracies

Trump’s Coup: the Inside Story

Tracy’s Travesty: New Boss Same as the Old Boss at Bureau of Land Management

The March For Our Lives Rally

Nations are Pledging to Create Ocean Preserves: How Do Those Promises Add Up?

Immigrants are Only 3.5% of People Worldwide and Their Negative Impact is Often Exaggerated, in the U.S. and Globally

Day By Day

Bait-and-Switch in the Bitterroot

Setting the Precedent for a Peace Industrial Policy

What If the US Had Invaded Ukraine

Bronzeville: Modernity, Race and the Search to Belong

Lawsuit Challenges Biden-Approved Oil Drilling Permits

The End of Laissez-Faire: Russia’s Attempt at Reshaping the World Economy

The Overshoot Dilemma

Time for a Taxpayer Revolt Against Rich Corporate Welfarists

The Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World

Fighting the First UK-Rwandan Refugee Flight

Of Prayer and Pardons

How Do We Get a Wage-Price Spiral When Wage Growth Is Slowing?

Evil, American Style

The Demons of War Hunker Down in Ukraine

Life of the Mind – and Survival

Why It Matters What’s Going on Right Now at the WTO

January 6th Hearing: Don’t Let Motives Obscure Facts

Water Infrastructure in Detroit

The Junior President from the State of Delaware

The ‘Secret’ That Gets CEOs Rich: Keep Workers Poor

A January 6th Spectacle Won’t Save Democracy

A Country Armed to the Teeth

The Unjustified Criticism of High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet’s Visit To China

Killing Palestinian Journalists and The Silence of Israeli Apartheid

Soaring Food and Energy Prices Drive Inflation Higher in May

Conservative Supreme Court Justices Disagree About How to Read the Law

Playing Fiddle While the Nation Burns

The Food Shortage in Your Own Backyard

Time to Launch “Dads Demand Action to Raise Healthy Boys”