There are significant differences of history, culture, and politics (and more) across nations – differences that make it unadvisable for leftists to…
I was never quite as excited as some of my fellow leftists seemed to be about the antiwar movement that developed in…
In a great propaganda victory for the culture of nationalistic imperialism, millions of Americans have been trained to think of the “Vietnam…
Here is an interesting short paragraph in a useful book published by the Financial Times’ former Middle East Editor David Gardner as…
[This essay was produced as a contribution to the May Day International project — conceived to develop a shared international understanding and response…
Kim Scipes, AFL-CIO Secret War Against Developing County Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010) Recently a leftist I know…
Running Genesis Backwards Here is a disturbing pair of questions to place next to each other: (1) what is greatest current…
* An abbreviated version of these comments was delivered in downtown Iowa City, Iowa on April 4, 2011, at an Iowa City…
Imagine if the reigning American media-politics culture approached U.S. policy and society with the same criteria it applies to other countries and…
The nation may have taken a step toward communicative sanity this week with the fall of arch-reactionary, proto-fascistic, and paranoid-style Fox News…
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