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Securing our safety belts, the Sisterhood exited Laura and Erma’s parking space to embark on a road trip through and to Trump territory...
January 29 marked the day the United States of America rejoined the Paris Climate Accords and is back in the global fight against the climate...
The U.S. tops any other country in the world for its number of prisoners – over 2,300,000. China, by contrast, has roughly 200,000 prisoners. But...
By the time Klaus Barbie went on the payroll of an American intelligence organization in 1947, Klaus Barbie had lived several lifetimes of human...
It’s been a rough week for Russian Federation President, Vladimir Putin. The European Union imposed sanctions under Euro-Magnitsky; Australia is...
US President Biden bellicosely proclaimed, “American is back,” in his major foreign policy priorities speech at the Munich Security Conference...
America is back; Joe Biden says so. Therefore, it must be true. He seems as pleased as can be about it too. So is the entire political class,...
I saw this piece last week on the soaring price of baseball cards and naturally started thinking about Bitcoin. The article begins with a story...
Slowing the pace of climate change and getting “tough” on China, especially over its human-rights abuses and unfair trade practices, are among the...
Actor and activist Danny Glover traveled recently to the most-watched Amazon facility in the country — the Bessemer fulfillment center outside...
Nothing is immune from the stain of colonialism and its associated phenomena of racism. This includes the practice of medicine. Whether one is...
Is it just me or has Black History Month become kind of a gross corporate circus lately? Just another banal commercial grab bag of Hallmark moments...
With the pandemic taking a devastating toll on local budgets, the U.S. public transit system is battling to survive. For much of the country, this...
Amidst the catastrophes of 2020, events in Chile are among the precious few institutional openings for the left globally. On October 25th, the...
The anarchist, pacifist poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, whom I knew for forty years was shy and introverted, even while he was a public figure who...
The February 25 U.S. bombing of Syria immediately puts the policies of the newly-formed Biden administration into sharp relief. Why is this...
Belarusian lawyer and academician Alena Douhan, who in 2020 became the United Nations “Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the...
Canada is supporting a dictatorship in Haiti. And our government is not just offering some vague assistance, but rather is paying for the central...
Question: why do both conservative and liberal governments in the U.S. install right-wing governments abroad if ‘the U.S.’ opposes right-wing...
Here’s a “little item”: A Death in the American Family. Ding Dong, the Blowhard’s Dead. “Little Item,” I should explain, was the...
The pandemic has turned the yearly ritual of film awards ceremonies a molehill out of the mountain they once were. With major Hollywood studios...
It’s time for wealth redistribution. There, I said it. I know it’s the third rail of politics, but I’m not running for a damn thing, which makes...
It’s all too easy to ‘critique’ a film by listing all the things it didn’t do, constructing a complaint consisting of things ‘left out.’...
For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homes and their inability to return. It is not a casual topic...
Bill Gates has a new book about climate change. Now, I care deeply about climate change. So here’s a question: What does Gates, whose 66,000...
The Custer Gallatin National Forest proposes to log and otherwise treat more than 16,000 acres across 40,000 acres as part of its South Plateau...
The dominant view of China in both Washington and in American public opinion is that the United States faces an increasingly ruthless Chinese...
Most of the time, my head is on straight Most of the time, I’m strong enough not to hate I don’t build up illusion ’till it makes me sick I...
Beyond the questions surrounding the availability, effectiveness and safety of a vaccine, the COVID-19 pandemic has led us to question where our...
America is in a child care crisis. “I see a lot of parents break down in here,” said Deloris “Nunu” Hogan, owner of Dee’s Tots, a 24-hour...
The cornerstone of every social structure is its belief system, and those who control and benefit the most from the system have one primary job:...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was one of the Beats, but not quite one of the Beats. I walked into his store in San Francisco one day in 1976, and he...
A recent article in the Blue Mountain Eagle Finding Common Ground on Active Forest Management quotes several people about restoring forest...
We must love. Leftism is love. We don’t have to love leftism to be left. We have to recognize that the only way to love is by going left. We have...
Last December the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council, and Yellowstone to Uintas Connection took the Trump administration’s...
Around 30,000 homes in Texas still have no power, and millions of Texans remain under a boil-water mandate days after a deadly winter storm wiped...
If you grew up agitated that “women earn 59 cents on the dollar,” for the same work as men, there’s a movie for you. At the beginning of the new...
HR 1, the For the People Act, is an omnibus voting reform bill that has many progressive measures concerning voter registration, voter roll purges,...
The February meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Defense Ministers, the first since President Biden took power, revealed an...
Most corporate media outlets have depicted President Biden’s effort to win Senate confirmation of Neera Tanden as a battle to overcome Republican...
“The company people are certainly irritated with the protest happening here. It has badly affected transportation and the business is running...
Speaking recently on CNews, France’s equivalent of Fox News, the higher education minister launched an unprecedented attack on the whole French...
Twelve months ago, Dr. Michael Osterholm was interviewed on the Joe Rogan Program. At the time, he warned that anywhere from 400,000 to 1.5...
Economic crises shine a spotlight on a society’s inequities and hierarchies, as well as its commitment to support those who are most vulnerable...
As President Joe Biden takes office, a host of North Korea watchers, analysts, and former diplomats have put forward recommendations for how the...
Pogo’s wisdom applies to our country divided by the politics of fear: “We have met the enemy and he is us.” This is important because fear is...
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The most striking revelations in yesterday’s House Financial Services Committee hearing on the wild trading action in New York Stock...
Why should rich people get pandemic survival checks? Why shouldn’t descendants of enslaved people get reparations payments? Why should someone...
HOLLYWOOD’S ARCHITECT: THE PAUL R. WILLIAMS STORY Undaunted, the pandemic can’t stop the Pan African Film Festival and in that immortal show...
Francophobia has been a persistent part of French history, transmitted and modulated through several centuries. 17thcentury England constructed the...
On February 11, news broke that the Cuomo administration intentionally hid data on COVID-related nursing home deaths from the federal government...
There is no sign that Biden recognizes U.S. responsibility for the difficult relations with Moscow and Beijing. The expansion of NATO and the...
A mass deception machine is a socio-technical apparatus that broadcasts deceptive claims like falsehoods, lies, accidental misinformation,...
Naomi Klein has an interesting piece in the New York Times on the implications of the Texas disaster. I would disagree with some parts, which...
The United States is a divided nation, one expressed in all-too-many ways as evident by the 2020 presidential election and the failed January 6th...
I missed the first round of talk about the New York Times’ publication of a moving and forthright letter by Woody Allen’s adopted daughter,...
Connecticut’s Fairfield County has for many years been a place of contrasts. It has cities that, even in their bustling heydays, were places...
Whether we’re down a conspiracy rabbit hole or trying to make sense of the real thing, we’re so stuffed up to our eyeballs with news these days...
Capitalism’s “conservative” defenders yet again oppose raising the minimum wage. They fought raising it in the past much as they tried to...
Dr. Agha Saeed , a towering American-Muslim figure has passed away today in a nursing home at the age of 72, due to complications from Covid-19. He...
The Queen Victoria Market in Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne, is usually a thriving affair. Like any ancient agora, people travel to...
The sign in the window of my neighborhood food store reads, “Black Lives Matter.” I have shopped there at least once a week over the past year. I...
San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico. The long-running global struggle to prevent extinction of the world’s most endangered marine mammal claimed...
Laxmibai Kale has been losing a portion of her harvest every year. That’s not been due to excessive rainfall or drought or poor farming techniques....
It was a fittingly poor conclusion to a tournament that risked being cancelled, run to ground, or even rendered stillborn. The tennis world number...
In the old days, specifically during the presidency of another actor, Ronald Reagan, Republican falsehoods seemed so quaint that Americans...
With all the media hoopla last week about the Perseverance rover, going almost totally unreported was that its energy source is...
‘It was absolutely shocking, how children aged five or six were hunted down and had their throats slit. I was thinking ‘this is ISIS-type...
What is reported matters and particularly so when it risks exaggerating violence or deepening fear and a sense of threat. If the US government...