THE DEMYSTIFICATION PROJECT CONTINUES As a few of my regular readers know, I am currently involved in a modest self-promoting fundraising…
Stolen Poker Chips Still in Play Don’t get me wrong. I have long felt that there is considerable justice in the…
I resist the tendency to see the contemporary United States’ many harsh inequalities[1] and crimes[2] as radical departures from the nation’s (supposed)…
We Americans must seem to much of the world a callous and superficial people. Look at the recent media-politics soap opera that…
Given its abject captivity to the same corporate and military power structures that control the Republicans, there’s little that the Democratic Party…
What matters is not who’s sitting in the White House. What matters is who’s sitting in. – Howard Zinn Who will…
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: New Press, 2010). Early in…
If an oil well is too far beneath the sea to be plugged when something goes wrong, it’s too deep to be…
One distinction of a healthy society is how it treats its past…An insecure and closed nation will distort its history – Will…
* A shorter version of the following speech was given at the 2010 “Socialist Minnesota:” meeting of Socialist Alternative, at the University…
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