February 2023

DeSantis’ Golden Rule (He Who Has the Gold Rules) Challenges Academic Freedom

Ending the Cesspool in Pharmaceuticals by Taking Away Patent Monopolies

The GOP’s Culture Wars Would be Laughable If They Weren’t So Deadly

Bertolt Brecht (and Me)

Charles Austin Beard, a Racist Historian?

How Can Biden Win Re:election, If Most Democrats Don’t Want Him to Run?

J. Edgar Did Not Dig No Rock and Roll

Earthquake Relief Efforts in Turkey and Syria

The Crisis Nobody Knows About on the Kenya-Tanzania Border

How Complicit Governments Support the Drug Trade

When the WPA Created 400,000 Jobs for Black Workers

Farewell to Burt Bacharach

Israel has Always Been a Dictatorship of Criminals

The Upside Down World

The Intertwined Food and Climate Emergency: Heeding Science

The Lapdogs of Tyranny

The Super Bowl After the Big Hit

Trafficked Workers’ Great Escape?

Ballooning Paranoia: The China Threat Hits the Skies

On the Morality Inherent in the Practice of Art Criticism

Joe Biden on Police

Making Our Schools Safe for Propaganda

Biden Presented a Bold Agenda, Can He Back It Up?

The Primordial Fires of Our Earth

Mental Health Illness: A Global Tragedy by Design

From Nazi Blitzkriegs to ADHD Treatment: What Stimulant Drugs Can and Cannot Do

How a Decarceral and Abolitionist Movement Helped Defeat the “Red Wave” in Pennsylvania

Militancy for an Existential Cause: Environmental Protection in Vietnam

Court Says Colombian State Responsible for Patriotic Union “Extermination”…No Mention of US Role

Stop Cop City

Who Killed David “Gypsy” Chain?

Why I Am Anti-war (and What That Means)

A World Fragmented by Inequality

How the ‘Gaza Experiment’  Resulted in the Downfall of Israeli Politicians 

The Fed’s 2.0 Percent Inflation Target

Balloonacy

Seattle Goes Global: a Center of Empire

The Mysterious Death of Leroy Jackson

Vaccine Nationalism: China’s and Ours

Life in a Destabilized California

Marching Into the New Year with World Wars III, IV, and V (Part 1)

Animal Crackers

Ron DeSantis: a 2024 Presidential Nightmare

21st Century Soldiering: Veterans of Post-9/11 Wars Reflect on Their Experience

Puppet Akutagawa

Scary Winter Wonder Land

Senator Daines Fighting to Stop Grizzly Bears’ “Livestock Depravation”

Desperate Dem Turns to Despicable Vote Trading

Slanting History to Smear Hulu’s 1619 Series

A Memo and Balloon Help Media Inflate China War Hype