The Sturgis and Standing Rock Protests
by: DAVID MATTSON Bear Butte. Photo: David Mattson. I grew up in the Black Hills of western South Dakota on a small ranch roughly 30 miles away from the small city of Sturgis and between 100 […]
Why Cuban Doctors Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize
by VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Department of Foreign Affairs – CC BY 2.0 Five years ago, I read the story of Dr. Félix Báez, a Cuban doctor who had worked in West Africa to stop the spread of Ebola. […]
The USA: Global Leader in Election Interference Abroad and Now at Home
by MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Walt Kelly’s Pogo remarked that “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” In terms of election interference, historically the United States has been the enemy abroad […]
Notes From the Great Democratic Infomercial
by MATTHEW STEVENSON Image Source: Screenshot of PBS cast of the DNC – Free Use I can’t say I was surprised that the Democrats led off their four-day Zoom summer jamboree with one of the Desperate Housewives acting […]
COVID-19 Changed Work in Germany
by THOMAS KLIKAUER – NADINE CAMPBELL Photograph Source: Michał Beim – CC BY 2.0 Germany is generally known as a high-tech country producing machinery and cars. But a few decades ago, Germany passed the 50% mark, entering […]
How to Remember a Feminist Movement That Hasn’t Ended
by ERIN L. THOMPSON On August 26, 2020, Alice in Wonderland will get some company. She will be joined in New York City’s Central Park by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth, the first statues […]
Thanks, Obama: You Lie
by PAUL STREET Photograph Source: Barack Obama’s speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention – Fair Use Record-Setting Absurdity and Mendacity The malignant fascist sociopath Donald Trump lies so voluminously and absurdly that many Americans will […]
COVID-19 and the Nakedness of the Corporate University
by DAVID SCHULTZ Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The coronavirus pandemic has both changed everything and accelerated trends that were already occurring across the world in business, politics, and how people shop and interact. The same […]
Socialist or Capitalist: What is China’s Model, Exactly?
by RICHARD D. WOLFF Beijing skyline from northeast 4th ring road of Beijing CBD, Chaoyang Park, and east 4th ring road at dusk. Photograph Source: Picrazy2 – CC BY-SA 4.0 Near the end of his life Lenin […]
President Trump, Child-Trafficker-in-Chief
by: SONALI KOLHATKAR President Donald Trump thinks of himself as a champion against human trafficking. He addressed a White House Summit on the issue in January claiming there was a “humanitarian crisis” at the border fomented by criminal […]