The Future of Vehicle Prices
BY DEAN BAKER Photo by Hilbert Hill On a lazy Friday afternoon, a person’s thoughts naturally turn to car price indexes. There actually is a reason that I became interested in this topic. I noticed that in […]
Demagogue Rising
BY RICHARD C. GROSS Photograph Source: Ron DeSantis – CC BY-SA 2.0 “Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.” — Jerry Brown, […]
Rail Unions Warned Us: Greed is Dangerous
BY REBEKAH ENTRALGO Photograph Source: Environmental Protection Agency – Public Domain The toxic clouds that billowed up from a derailed freight train in Ohio earlier this month are a chilling metaphor for the toxic greed that […]
Decisions on a Nuclear Future are Guided by Myths
BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Artists’s Conception of Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter mission for Prometheus, with the reactor on the right, providing power to ion engines and electronics. – Public Domain Last month I rushed through the […]
History Lessons for Antifascists
BY HELMUT-HARRY LOEWEN Photograph Source: Mark Ramsay – CC BY 2.0 In the dominant liberal political imaginary, fascist and far-right movements are framed as problems of hate and extremism. [1] The global extremism industry – a network […]
American Zionists Accuse ‘Israel’ of De-Judaizing the Jewish State
BY JOSEPH MASSAD Morton Klein speaking at an event in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph Source: Greg Skidmore – CC BY-SA 3.0 Last month, Morton Klein, the national President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) issued […]
The Insecure Superpower
BY STEPHEN F. EISENMAN Ferdinand Holder, The Night, 1890, Kunstmuseum, Basel. Riddle What’s scarier? A) Hundreds of military bases, all bristling with advanced, offensive weapons, controlled by your avowed enemy, close to your heartland. OR B) […]
Blood, Money and Imperial War
BY RON JACOBS Photo by Marek Studzinski As we approach the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the only obvious certainty about the conflict is that some corporations are making a killing from the killing. Although […]
An Open Letter to President Biden on Optimism of the State of Union 2023
BY RICHARD FALK Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain I listened to your prideful nationalism in the State of the Union address with stunned disbelief, wondering how such sentiments could have slipped by your […]
Homage to Russian War Resisters
BY LAWRENCE WITTNER Given the Russian government’s brutal repression of dissent, the level of Russian resistance to the Putin regime’s war on Ukraine is quite remarkable. Beginning on the evening of February 24, 2022, the date […]