“Instead of you forking out for your monthly bill, we’ll tax the giant corporations fairly—the Facebooks and the Googles—to cover the running costs.” by: Andrea Germanos Opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn gives a speech […]
by ANDREW LEVINE Photograph Source: Paul Sableman – CC BY 2.0 Were Donald Trump and the Republicans who support him slightly less relentless in giving reasons to despair for the human race, it would be a lot […]
by KATHLEEN WALLACE Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair “War is a racket. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.” This sounds like a modern day comment from […]
Although lacking internet, the Nazis knew the value of film in order to get their message to the people. by: Christopher Brauchli In a video recently screened at an event hosted at one of his […]
by WILLIAM HARTUNG Photograph Source: Stacks of shells in the shell filling factory at Chilwell during World War I – Public Domain It’s no secret that Donald Trump is one of the most aggressive arms salesmen […]
by MICHAEL WELTON Saba Mahmood is a very talented scholar who has assimilated a post-colonial sensibility. She has learned to look at the world through the eyes of those who have been the pedagogical objects of […]
by JASON HIRTHLER Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The risible tension between the tailored elitism of the Bolivian bourgeoisie and the restive pueblo of indigenous peasants was memorably captured in the 2005 film Our Brand Is Crisis. The documentary colorfully […]
by MATTHEW HOH U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan – Public Domain In 2001 and in 2002 Congress passed authorizations for war. While not declarations of war, these mandates, each titled an Authorization for Use of Military Force […]
by W. T. WHITNEY Image Source: Kingsif – CC BY-SA 4.0 Brighter days were ahead for Bolivia in early 2006. Elected overwhelmingly, Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, took office in company with Vice President Alvaro Garcia […]
by COLIN TODHUNTER Farm, Young’s Bay, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The world already produces enough food to feed 10 billion people but over two billion are experiencing micronutrient deficiencies (of which 821 million were classed as chronically undernourished in 2018). However, supporters of genetic […]