BY JUAN COLE Photograph Source: Tech. Sgt. David McLeod – Public Domain It was one of the fabled rivers of history and the Marines needed to cross it. In early April 2003, as American forces sought […]
BY VICTOR GROSSMAN Mother Jones with the children of miners. Library of Congress. For decades and decades this elderly lady was loved by American miners from Pennsylvania to Colorado. For them she was “Mother Jones”! And […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher Mobley, U.S. Navy – Public Domain Following months of debate, the Biden administration has decided to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions, weapons that more than 120 […]
BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Photo: IAEA Imagebank. Amidst accusations from both the Russian and Ukrainian sides that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine has been wired for detonation or could […]
BY RAMZY BAROUD Image by Ayesha Firdaus. Desecrating, then burning the Holy Quran in Sweden has, once again, raised a political storm of condemnation, but also of justification, if not outright approval. Such acts are protected […]
BY RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph Source: Studio Incendo – CC BY 2.0 The contradictions of China-bashing in the United States begin with how often it is flat-out untrue. The Wall Street Journal reports that the “Chinese spy” balloon that […]
BY RON JACOBS Photograph Source: DoD photo, USAF – Public Domain When certain lines are crossed, the nature of other things becomes clearer. Providing cluster bombs to the Ukrainian military is such a rubicon. The pretense […]
BY SCOTT REMER Image by engin akyurt. 1. The etymology of emergency On May 5, the World Health Organization declared an end to the COVID global public health emergency. For its part, the Biden administration allowed the US […]
BY STEPHEN COOPER Photograph Source: Rivers A. Langley – CC BY-SA 3.0 Alabama’s addiction to torturing poor people—disproportionately Black and brown people, and more often than not, people who are severely mentally ill—with inhumane correctional institutions, a dysfunctional parole system, and, in some cases, […]
In Jenin, Israel is unveiling the next phase of apartheid The horrifying sight of settler pogroms last week, in which hundreds of Israelis rampaged through Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank after a deadly […]