19 min read
Biden’s Foreign Policy and Nuclear Weapons: a Dialogue
B61 nuclear warheads in storage. Photo: US DOE. Ricard Falk: The humane and competently handled responses that the Biden presidency has pursued with
Tag : Leading Article
19 min read
6 min read
Government Report Documents US Responsibility for Venezuela’s Humanitarian Dilemma
Photograph Source: Eneas De Troya – CC BY 2.0 Venezuela was once one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America. The popular classes
4 min read
Britain Risks Cementing in Power a Corrupt and Incompetent Government in Undeserved Gratitude for the Vaccine
Photograph Source: Matt Brown – CC BY 2.0 “No more f**king lockdowns – let the bodies pile high in their thousands,” Boris Johnson is
5 min read
New Tenants: Birdwatching in New York City
Photo: Benjamin Willis. If you would have told me a dozen years ago that I would move to New York City and develop an interest in ornithology I
8 min read
The Biggest Bust Ever: Direct Action Lessons From Three Days in May of 1971
Photograph Source: US Army – NARA – Public Domain Fifty years ago this May, when the U.S. Capitol police were better at arresting large numbers
3 min read
GOP Still Wants to Pretend the Preservation of Slavery Wasn’t a Major Reason for the American Revolution
Americans during the Battle of Long Island, 1776 – Public Domain Another day, another casus belli for the GOP’s endless Culture War. This time
12 min read
What Would a Deep Green New Deal Look Like?
Wind turbines in the Columbia Gorge. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The Green New Deal has attracted perhaps the greatest attention of any proposal for
16 min read
Roaming Charges: One Hundred Days of Platitudes
First those Oscars, then this Biden speech. Has there ever been a duller week of network television? I feel like I should be angrier than I am, but
17 min read
Roaming Charges: One Hundred Days of Platitudes
First those Oscars, then this Biden speech. Has there ever been a duller week of network television? I feel like I should be angrier than I am, but
12 min read
In the Smithy of His Soul: A Steel Worker and Scholar
Noel Ignatiev speaking at Occupy Boston. On May Day 1986 Noel Ignatiev, the former steel worker, was aboard the good ship “New Boston,” on a
5 min read
The U.S. is Trying to Light the Match of Islamic Extremism in China’s Xinjiang
Close to Karakoram Highway in Xinjiang. Photograph Source: CC BY-SA 2.5 “Kashgar is a key location for the land and sea interface of the Belt and
4 min read
Eviction: No Easter in Occupied Jerusalem
Icon of the Crucifixion, 16th century, by Theophanes the Cretan – Public Domain For adherents of the Orthodox faith tradition, today is Good
5 min read
Corona in Cow Land – India Critical
Photograph Source: Prime Minister’s Office – GODL-India “India is gasping for oxygen. Thanks to GOI’s (Government of India) incompetency and
5 min read
Why Does Washington Keep Punishing Cuba?
Photograph Source: istolethetv – CC BY 2.0 According to the geopolitical analysis site STRATFOR, sanctions are “a coercive tool to compel a
4 min read
The Composer Who Fought Uranium Mining on the Orkneys
Composer Peter Maxwell Davies celebrated Orkney’s defeat of uranium mining with his piece, “The Yellow Cake Revue.” (Photo: Wikimedia