BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante At every stage of its proceedings against Julian Assange, the US Imperium has shown little by way of tempering its vengeful impulses. The WikiLeaks publisher, in uncovering the sordid, operational […]
BY JUDITH DEUTSCH U.S. Department of Labor photos coming from the investigation showing children working Grand Island, Nebraska, in 2022 (The U.S. Department of Labor blurred portions of the photos to protect the individuals’ identities). This […]
BY ROY EIDELSON Photo by Bret Kavanaugh Having witnessed first-hand a crucial vote by the American Psychological Association’s governing Council of Representatives earlier this month in Washington, DC, I couldn’t decide whether to begin this commentary with […]
BY W. T. WHITNEY Photograph Source: Susan Ruggles – CC BY 2.0 At a meeting in Havana on August 11 attended by government ministers and the press, Cuban National Assembly President Esteban Lazo communicated a message to […]
BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair During a recent visit to Portland, Oregon, my husband and I watched a private security guard help up an unhoused man from the sidewalk. Three white women looked […]
BY RALPH NADER Image by Alex Fedorenko. Russia’s criminal war in Ukraine intensifies as it grinds on, World War I style with heavy casualties on both sides. While President Joe Biden keeps repeating that NATO, mostly […]
BY MALICK DOUCOURÉ Ibrahim Traore, shortly after the military coup in September, 2022. Youtube screengrab. West Africa has, in recent years, seen a flurry of coup d’états spanning across the Sahel and extending into the tropical shores of Guinea. France, […]
BY GERALD SUSSMAN Photograph Source: conceptphoto.info – CC BY 2.0 Oppenheimer is an impressive, well-produced biopic based on a critical book by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, American Prometheus. It tells the story of one of the iconic scientists […]
BY GARY LEUPP Lahaina, after the fire. Youtube screen grab. It’s a damn tough life full of toil and strifeWe whalermen undergo.And we don’t give a damn when the day is done/gale has stoppedHow hard the […]
BY MICHAEL SLAGER Photograph Source: Neil H – CC BY 2.0 Many years after Ukraine declared independence in 1991, the physical symbols of the country’s decades-long membership in the Soviet Union were still visible: in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s […]