BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Chooz nuclear power plant in France by Raimond Spekking/Wikimedia Commons. The annual goldmine of empirical data on nuclear power that is the World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) was duly rolled out on October 5th, […]
BY ASHLEY SMITH The Battle of Vertières was the final battle of the Haitian Revolution that overthrew France’s colonial slavocracy and established Haiti as a free Black republic. Photo credit: Cap-Haitien, Wikipedia Commons. Once again, the […]
BY RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph Source: Policy Exchange – CC BY 2.0 With its disguises as “high finance” for the mystified and “Keynesian fiscal policy” for those “in the know,” deficit spending by the government was quite […]
BY PAUL STREET Recently The Nation published an interview with the great left intellectual Noam Chomsky by David Barsamian that first appeared on TomDispatch.com. Below I write up some critical reflections expanded from my notes in the margins of my print-off of […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison – Public Domain Tens of thousands protested against the skyrocketing cost of living and against Macron in France October 16, led […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photo by Nick Tsybenko “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time,” British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey famously remarked to a friend in […]
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Li-An Lim. A fresh approach to fixing climate change/global warming is outlined in a new book: Climate Restoration, which focuses on how the climate can be restored. Indeed, the book is full of […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Rory Arnold / No10 Downing Street – OGL 3 Much mirth is expressed over President Joe Biden mispronouncing the new Prime Minister’s name as “Rashee Sanook”. Many see this as showing how the merry-go-round […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State from United States – Public Domain The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 mandated that the White House produce for the Congress an annual report […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt – Public Domain In 1944, a V-2 rocket blew up my parents’ house in St John’s Wood in London, reducing it to a heap of ruins. Fortunately […]