BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Statistics lie. Some lie more than others. The ones regarding unemployment lie brazenly and have done so for years, erasing the very existence of the long-term unemployed by […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Richard Helms in the White House Cabinet Room, March 27, 1968. Photo: White House. Just about every lousy U.S. foreign policy escapade from the 1950s to the late ‘70s traces back to the […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Jens Galschiøt – http://www.aidoh.dk/ – GDFL Russia is a breadbasket of the world. It is the globe’s third biggest wheat exporter, way ahead of Ukraine, the eighth, and the world’s biggest fertilizer […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: 7C0 – CC BY 2.0 Two astounding events occurred in March – a peace pact between longtime, ferocious enemies Saudi Arabia and Iran, and the presentation to Moscow of a peace deal […]
BY PAUL STREET A downtown Louisville bank slaughter 11 days ago was the 150th mass shooting (an incident in which 4 people other than the gun-wielder were shot) in the United States (US) in 2023. There […]
BY ANDRES D. MEDELLIN Photograph Source: Fibonacci Blue – CC BY 2.0 When it comes to mass shootings in the United States (like the one that just took place in Nashville), the figures are unequivocal. “Active shooter” […]
BY STEPHEN F. EISENMAN Caravaggio, Conversion on the Way to Damascus (detail), 1601, Santa Maria Del Popolo, Rome. The Right to Change The fundamental right to change is under assault by a generation of American fascists […]
BY JOSHUA FRANK An Iraqi main battle tank on a highway south of Kuwait City destroyed in a Coalition attack during Operation Desert Storm. Image by Master Sgt. Kit Thompson. It’s sure to be a blood-soaked […]
BY ROGER HARRIS Photograph Source: Stiller Beobachter – CC BY 2.0 The Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci presciently observed: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; […]
BY JONATHAN BUTLER Walter Teague at the USCANLF loft in Chelsea, 1966. Walter Teague, the encyclopedic and strong-willed giant of the anti-war movement who passed away on March 27 from heart failure at the age of […]