BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photo by Colin Lloyd In the past several weeks, we have gained excellent insight into the processes of the National Security State that finds the White House, the Congress, and the mainstream media cooperating […]
BY FORREST HYLTON Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Tariq Ali and Jon Wiener, comrades of his generation, have written concise and moving tributes to Mike Davis, whose work reached my generation of radical readers in the […]
BY NANCY SNYDER Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The erasure of race conscious admissions used in public and private universities began to its certain erasure today, October 31, 2022. For five hours, the United States Supreme […]
BY THOMAS KNAPP Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair An “experienced analyst” at the National Security Agency ran an illegal surveillance project that involved “unauthorized targeting and collection of private communications of people or organizations in the […]
BY DEAN BAKER Photograph Source: John Loo – CC BY 2.0 We got a lot of new data on the economy last week and we will get more this week. Most of what we saw was pretty […]
BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Chooz nuclear power plant in France by Raimond Spekking/Wikimedia Commons. The annual goldmine of empirical data on nuclear power that is the World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) was duly rolled out on October 5th, […]
BY ASHLEY SMITH The Battle of Vertières was the final battle of the Haitian Revolution that overthrew France’s colonial slavocracy and established Haiti as a free Black republic. Photo credit: Cap-Haitien, Wikipedia Commons. Once again, the […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison – Public Domain Tens of thousands protested against the skyrocketing cost of living and against Macron in France October 16, led […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State from United States – Public Domain The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 mandated that the White House produce for the Congress an annual report […]
BY DEAN BAKER Photograph Source: Photo by Phil Scroggs The media have been obsessed with inflation for the last year and a half, reporting as though this is the only economic issue that matters to people. In […]