BY PETER BOHMER Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair We live in a critical juncture of a deadly pandemic that intensifies as the Omicron variant surges. I will focus on the U.S. economy with a focus on labor. […]
BY LAWRENCE WITTNER Trade union demonstrators held at bay by soldiers during the 1912 Lawrence textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Photograph Source: http://womhist.binghamton.edu/teacher/DBQlaw2.htm – Public Domain During 2021, there were signs of growing militancy in America’s […]
By Lawrence Davidson Russia seeks security In mid-December 2021 the Russian government publicly announced that it would “seek legally formulated guarantees of security” from the United States and its allies that would end NATO military activity […]
By Ramzy Baroud An article by Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times last July is a prime example of western intelligentsia’s limited understanding of China’s unhindered rise as a superpower. “Becoming a superpower is a complicated business. It […]
BY JOSHUA FRANK Are anti-vaccine propagandists really being censored? That’s the claim RFK Jr. and his raucous admirers make as they point out the lawyer-turned anti-vaccine crusader was kicked off of Instagram and has yet to appear on […]
BY PAUL STREET Photograph Source: Matt Johnson – CC BY 2.0 Great nations don’t bury the truth, they face up to it. We are a great nation. * Joe Biden, January 6, 2022 “It’s Wrong. It’s Undemocratic” […]
BY JACOB G. HORNBERGER The New York Times published an article yesterday that denied that U.S. officials promised Russia at the end of the Cold War that NATO would not expand membership to Warsaw Pact countries. Unfortunately, the article misses […]
BY MEDEA BENJAMIN – NICOLAS J. S. DAVIES The Pentagon has finally published its first Airpower Summary since President Biden took office nearly a year ago. These monthly reports have been published since 2007 to document the number […]
BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Headline photo of an atomic detonation by FEMA/Wikimedia Commons. “Long live deterrence to dissuade nuclear attacks” blasted the headline on Gwynne Dyer’s December 6, 2021 column in The Hill Times. And then came this subheader: […]
BY WENDELL GRIFFEN Photograph Source: Jason Riedy – CC BY 2.0 This year, the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission, an agency of the Arkansas Department of Education, has invited an un-reconstructed Southern Baptist preacher, right wing […]