August 2024

On Eli Lilly’s Decision to Lower the Starter Price of Blockbuster Weight-Loss Drug Zepbound

Letter from London: Braveheart Asymptote

China Views the US Election

What’s Our Left Strategy Going Forward in the US?

Bangladesh: Can Protests Avoid Conspiracies?

On the Distortions and Distractions of the Democratic National Circus

Taliban American Style?

Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism is a Myth

Awareness of Capitalists’ Use of Colonialism Encourages International Solidarity

Harris’s Failed Opportunity?

Warmonger Confessions: More Frankness on AUKUS

I Survived Chicago

You Will Hear the Names of the Dead: The DNC in Chicago

Revealed: RFK, Jr’s Best Dope Stories

Workers, Unchecked: The Case for Card Check This Labor Day

Money or Your Life

The Story of the Scab: How Organized Labor Shames Its Traitors

Kamala Harris: A Hubert Humphrey for 2024

Make America “Lethal” Again: a Review of Some Speeches at the DNC

A World Without Artworks That Auction Off for $80 Million?

Understanding the Fear of the US Becoming an Authoritarian State

Imperialism: Conrad, Lenin and Heart of Darkness 

Phil Donahue (1935-2024) – Greatest Champion of Free Speech for the Peoples’ Interest of the 20th Century

RFK Jr. Was Never Really the Alternative He Pretended To Be

How the US Could Have Won the Venezuelan Election

Why Is the Focus Always on the Middle-Class Voter?

The Violence of Wealth and Income Inequality

Beyond Conventional Joy

Western Hypocrisy in the Global Minerals Scramble

Economic Warfare and the Chokehold of Empire

Apologists for Rape

Meet the New Boss, Worse Than the Old?

Scholasticide: Erasing Memory, Silencing Dissent, and Waging War on Education from Gaza to the West

As I Lay Coughing: Watching the DNC With Covid and Faulkner

The Obamas Sing Songs of Themselves

The Whitewashing and Greenwashing of Gov. Tim Walz

Donald Trump Confronts Kamala in His Usual Fashion

Bedeviled Democratic Song

Economic War with China is a Losing Proposition

Tipping Points – Where Things Stand

America’s Nuclear Downwinders Deserve Justice

Prolonging Genocide as a Smokescreen: On Israel’s Other War in the West Bank

Health Care for All Should be an Election Issue

A New Kind of McCarthyism

Requiem for the Home Front

The Politics of Everyday Life in El Alto, Bolivia’s Aymara City

Violating the Sherman Act: Google’s Illegal Monopoly

AFL-“CIA” Reckoning with U.S. Labor’s Imperialist Past

What If Australia and New Zealand Exit Pax Americana?  

Before It’s Too Late