by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR In the land of milk, guns and honey. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. + Just as compulsory school prayer acts as a vaccine against becoming religious as an adult, forcing your child to […]
by PAUL STREET Photograph Source: mathiaswasik – CC BY 2.0 In the demented mind of the disgraced fascist oligarch Donald “Perfect Call” Trump, “the Radical Left Democrats have been trying to impeach me from Day 1.” This […]
by BARRETT BROWN Marty and Dana Gottesfeld. As I’ve recently learned from his wife, activist and prison journalist Marty Gottesfeld — recently sentenced to ten years for a denial of service attack on the website of the Boston […]
by KENT PATERSON Photograph Source: Backbone Campaign – CC BY 2.0 As temperatures dip near or below freezing, scores of Mexican refugees huddle in their makeshift tents of layered plastic sheeting at the foot of the Santa […]
by CARL BOGGS Photograph Source: Backbone Campaign – CC BY 2.0 The idea of a Green New Deal, including the one proposed by a group of Democrats led by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is hardly novel […]
NewsKate Mohamed al-Naccar was shot in his right eyes with a tear gas canister fired by Israeli soldiers during “Great March of Return” protests on January 11, 2019. He is seen with his mother in […]
by LOUISA WILLCOX In part one of this essay, I laid out the ingredients for successful coexistence with grizzly bears, and why we need more resources. Here I delve into the costs and some ideas for meeting funding […]
by RADHIKA DESAI Boris Johnson has Trumped Britain. Widely reviled as an untrustworthy bumbler, he has won the biggest Tory majority in decades with a three-word campaign: ‘Get Brexit Done!’ There is much to be said. […]
by DAVID ALTHEIDE The release of the Articles of Impeachment (AOI) in the din of Republicans howls marks a tipping point in public trust and political legitimacy. The problem is not just adversarial political opposition, but […]
Prior to the Maidan coup of 2014, Ukraine’s military existed in a political vacuum, suffering from benign neglect as well as corruption and other problems plaguing the Ukrainian state. Apart from downsizing, which meant the […]