The corporate media report on elections ā especially the biggie coming up ā as though they were sporting events. If you win,…
As hard as I try, in the privacy of my own being, not to get caught up in the scathing absurdities of…
After twelve years ā including five years of solitary confinement at Belmarsh Prison in London ā Julian Assange is free. God bless…
If we can end, let us say… slaveryāthe legal āownershipā of other human beingsācanāt we also end other great social wrongs? Canāt…
Peaceful protest, violent response ā that says it all. Human politics ā from global to local ā remain mixed with hatred, dominance…
An enormous flash, a mushroom cloud, multi-thousands of human beings dead. We win! Nuclear weapons wonāt go away, the cynicsāthe souls in…
Probably fewer ideas are treated with more contempt in todayās world than . . . ahem: a one-state solution for Palestine and…
First you call them terrorists. Then you say youāre defending yourself. Moral problem solved! You can kill as many of them as…
First you call them terrorists. Then you say youāre defending yourself. Moral problem solved! You can kill as many of them as…
The easiest way to cope with the news is to shrivel it into an us-vs.-them abstraction and, thus, to extract as much…
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