BY HOWARD LISNOFF Photograph Source: Lorie Shaull – CC BY 2.0 The US has become a shooting gallery (New York Times, January 24, 2023). Here is a list of mass shootings in the US since the 1920s. Mass shootings involve 3 […]
BY HELEN YAFFE Photo by Ricardo IV Tamayo In 2022, an unprecedented number of Cubans arrived in the United States through irregular, or ‘illegal’ channels. Historically the United States has encouraged and weaponised Cuban emigration. Cuban migrants […]
BY JACOB HORNBERGER Given President Biden’s decision to send 31 of its top-ranked M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, it is clear that the Pentagon has decided to escalate its war against Russia. Biden’s decision was followed […]
BY KAREN J. GREENBERG Photograph Source: Tyler Merbler – CC BY 2.0 Americans tuning into the television news on January 8th eyed a disturbingly recognizable scene. In an “eerily familiar” moment of “déjà vu,” just two years […]
An open letter to my MP, Rt Hon Alister Jack, Secretary of State for Scotland By Stuart Littlewood Dear Mr Jack, Have I missed something, or is our government investing billions of pounds of our money […]
By Stuart Littlewood The decision to slap mighty Russia with sanctions and effectively declare economic war on this key supplier of energy, foodstuffs and precious metals, among other things, then provide weapons and know-how to Russia’s […]
BY RALPH NADER Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair It is showdown time. Senator Bernie Sanders, new chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee versus Big Pharma. The self-described “democratic socialist” from a safe […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photo by Kevin James Shay No one knows how the war in Ukraine will end, but there is one post-war certainty: there will be a prolonged and costly Cold War between the United States […]
BY PAUL STREET Biomass plant near Boardman, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. “It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and then of nature than the breakdown of […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair One of the first dead giveaways for fascism is animosity toward trade unions. That’s not to say all anti-union businesspeople are fascist, but simply that that hatred is […]