“The period of history which is commonly called ‘modern,’” wrote Bertrand Russell in 1945, “has a mental outlook which differs from that…
I am a little offended by neo-Stalinist North Korea’s description of my nation’s president as a “hooligan” and “a philistine.” See http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/30/northkorea.ap/.…
T here’s nothing quite as revolting as “left-liberal” Democrats struggling to identify themselves with United States imperialism. Take a look, for example,…
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Please look back at a tax-day piece I did on the United States’ harshly regressive and militarist (imperial) priorities, where I quoted…
America’s wacky right wing party and political system doesn’t get much worse than this. Tomorrow, the Republican United States Senate Majority Leader…
It’s tax day. So let’s say you are paying Uncle Sam $1,000. This is how your expenditure will be used: $299.68 will…
Don’t let the title of this essay throw you. I’m happy to have been a person of the left since at least…
On Saturday tens of thousands of Iraqis celebrated the second anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s fall by marching to demand the departure of…
I recently spent three days in Washington D.C. as part of a national civil rights lobbying effort to encourage the United States…
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