The United States federal government in 2020 embarked on a grand and beautiful experiment: expanding the use of tax dollars to help…
“Climate breakdown has begun. Our climate is imploding faster than we can cope,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. (Source: 2024 Likely to be Hottest…
Two interesting things happened at the BRICS summit in South Africa in August. Several new members were invited to join BRICS in…
Jericho does not belong to the Palestinians alone. It belongs to the whole of humanity. For Israel, however, the recognition by UNESCO of Jericho…
When conservationist Aldo Leopold persuaded the U.S. Forest Service in 1924 to establish the nation’s first federally approved wilderness of more than 500,000 acres…
Carl Sagan, an astronomer and a humanist, would have been heartened by the march of tens of thousands in Manhattan as a pushback against…
Last month CNN published a poll revealing 55% of people surveyed in the United States do not support spending more money on the Ukraine war. A…
Recent news reports have been filled with results of one poll after another after another showing that President Biden continues to weaken as a candidate for re-election. With…
In The Death of Expertise, national security expert Tom Nichols warns that knowledge is under attack by an ill-informed public determined to replace…
From its very onset, Israel has constructed a brand for itself, a powerful gimmick that was predicated on two main pillars: democracy…
In a speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention, presidential candidate and reactionary bigot Pat Buchanan predicted a “Culture War” for the…
Is it possible to grow food without exploiting animals in gardening/homesteading and farming systems? Even if we do not keep domesticated animals,…
This is Part 5 in a 5-part history series focusing on US imperialism, globalization and neo-liberal economics across the world over the…
It’s a tiny little thing, smaller than the fire ant whose body it has just sabotaged. The Phorid fly, often called “the…
Rich Men North Of Richmond is the title of the hugely popular Oliver Anthony folk/country song that has incredibly rocketed to number…
Thank you for inviting me, and it is an honor for me to be here with you today. Let me thank the…
What if the “epidemic of coups” in West and Central Africa is not that at all, but a direct outcome of outright…
“Radical hedonism and unlimited egotism could not have emerged as guiding principles of economic behaviour had not a drastic change occurred in…
It had never struck me until recently how many environmental activist groups there are. Within the U.S. alone, there are around 28,000different environmental…
On the few occasions where activists have directly restrained imperialist policies their partial victories have been twisted to reinforce benevolent Canadian mythology.…
The most powerful influence on learning is a student’s home life over which teachers have no control. This crucial yet obvious fact…
What happens when corporate values intersect with health care and labor organizing? Members and stakeholders of Kaiser Permanente (KP), one of the…
Frons domini plus prodest quam occipitium. A master’s face produces more work than the back of his head (Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 18.…
This is Part 4 in a 5-part history series focusing on US imperialism, globalization and neo-liberal economics across the world over the…
We are currently facing three inter-related existential crises: -Climate change causing droughts, storms, floods, killer heatwaves, wildfires and rapidly approaching global tipping…
Picture this: A creature, small yet striking, wrapped in russet fur so vivid it could ignite the darkest of forests with its…
On September 8th this year, members of the British Royal Family marked the one year anniversary since the death of Queen Elizabeth II.…
Recently, the ugly head of German Nazism – beefed up by a heavy dose of antisemitism – roared its brain-dead head. Meanwhile,…
The meteoric rise of the Religious Zionists, a sleight of hand that outdoes master Netanyahu, surprises everyone and delights few. How did…
In early August 2023, a succession of wildfires ignited within the state of Hawaii, primarily affecting the island of Maui. It is considered “one…
The crisis of journalism has been talked about almost since the beginning of newspapers with large circulation. As early as 1919, Upton…
Sarah Bakewell’s new book includes an anecdote about two of the intellectual creators of our modern world, Charles Darwin and Karl Marx.…
Ideas about how to end the Ukraine war abound. None come from Ukraine. None have gained traction. Here, nevertheless, are three examples…
The United States’ response on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has been and currently is dismal. Our government has treated the deaths of over…
Adapted from an oral presentation given during the Life After Oil International Film Festival in Villanovaforru, Sardinia, Italy, 2023. Translated by Evgeniia…
This is Part 3 in a 5-part history series focusing on US imperialism, globalization and neo-liberal economics across the world over the…
The Earth, our precious blue planet, faces an existential crisis that touches every living being. While often overshadowed by more immediate concerns,…
‘Panem et circenses’, said the Romans – ‘Bread and circuses’. This maxim served the Romans well. In times of crisis and whenever…
With Paraguay’s recent April 30, elections leaving right wing political and business forces in complete control of the country the prognosis for…
On August 22, the U.S. State Department renewed its ban on the use of U.S. passports for travel to North Korea. This travel ban…
What do billionaires do with all their money? Maybe they buy off a Supreme Court justice. Maybe they get their kicks from diving…
The real left is not the caricature crafted by the U.S. right. Alongside parallel right-wing political formations abroad, that caricature tries hard to revive and…
The sexual revolution may have reached its high-water mark 50 years ago, the week of August 5, 1973, when The Joy of Sex:…
The state of labor this year is so fraught, so weighted with issues and problems, that a single day of homage and…
The news that at least 73 people have died in the terrible fire in downtown Johannesburg has left all people of good…
Despite their complicated and often uneasy relationship, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant agree on one thing:…
This is Part 2 in a 5-part history series focusing on US imperialism, globalization and neo-liberal economics across the world over the…
Humans have a serious stuff problem. We keep making and buying new things when most of the time we could find those…
The Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) summit in Johannesburg concluded on August 24 after a major disappointment: the long-overdue challenge to U.S. dollar hegemony…
“Show me anything in war that is moral.” –Sir Arthur “Bomber” Harris, commander of the British Air Force in World War II…
