by Army News Service With the outbreak of the coronavirus, we’re living in uncertain times. More and more schools and businesses are closing to reduce the spread of COVID-19. As a result, many people are working […]
by HOWARD LISNOFF The coronavirus spreads like a kind of modern plague across the global landscape. The view from my study window is of the gently rolling hills of the Berkshires in the foothills of the […]
by SARAH ANDERSON – SAM PIZZIGATI Photograph Nathaniel St. Clair In times of crisis — the current coronavirus pandemic, for instance — these sorts of calls for cooperation become the drumbeat of our daily lives. And […]
by JONATHAN COOK Philippe de Champaigne’s Vanitas (c. 1671) If a disease can teach wisdom beyond our understanding of how precarious and precious life is, the coronavirus has offered two lessons. The first is that in […]
by VICTOR WALLIS Photograph Source: Poster Boy – CC BY 2.0 The US political scene is haunted by talk of socialism. The basis for this has been developing now for some years, especially since the financial meltdown […]
by CHARLES PIERSON Photograph Source: Dan Zen – CC BY 2.0 However grave the calamity, someone will see it as a way to make a buck. COVID-19, which the World Health Organization declared as a global pandemic […]
By Matthew J.L. Ehret By Matt Ehret for VT Canada Amidst the current hysteria of the covid-19 pandemic, talk of general chaos and economic collapse have taken the forefront of peoples’ minds. Increasingly over recent months, […]
by CRAIG COLLINS Photograph Source: Studio Incendo – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why […]
HINT: NOT TO YOU THE PRINTING PRESS FOR THE RICH ONLY Remember when Congress gave Wall Street a blank check to bail themselves to the tune of trillions? Where did it all go? Hint: Not […]
by JONATHAN COOK Artwork by Nick Roney If one thing drives me to write, especially these posts, it is the urgent need for us to start understanding power. Power is the force that shapes almost everything […]