America’s Intifada Must Dig Deeper
Palestinians’ sustained struggle for freedom and independence offers many lessons The murder of George Floyd and the White House’s mishandling (to put it politely) of the COVID-19 pandemic may be...
View ArticleThe Narrative of the Leakers: “Collateral Murder” and the Assange Indictment
When the superseding indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia against Julian Assange on May 23, 2019, there was one glaring omission. It was an achievement,...
View ArticleHigher Education, the Pandemic, Capitalism and Power
This article is based on a talk I gave at a recently held conference on how higher education unions are responding to the pandemic and proposed cuts. It was held by Higher Educators United, a Northern...
View ArticleFrom the Covid-19 Battle Can Come Unstoppable Citizen Power to Propel “Full...
Frontline healthcare, transit, and grocery clerk workers are too busy risking their lives helping and saving people exposed to the deadly Covid-19 pandemic to see themselves emerging as the force that...
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The Israeli Defense Forces is a Misnomer
Unless one defines defense as attacking others with overwhelming force, the Israeli Defense Forces have never been a defensive force. As scholar and author Haim Beshreeth-Zabner makes clear in his just...
View ArticleTrump’s Incitement of Police Violence
Arrogance by police often mirrors the stance of individuals above the cops. I was in Manhattan two decades ago to give a lecture. A squad car with flashing lights was suddenly behind me. I pulled to...
View ArticleDirty Details Emerge as to Why Mnuchin is Fighting Congress Over Releasing...
Taxpayers’ money is being used to make the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. Thus, the public has every right to know the names of the recipients of those loans. Despite originally promising...
View ArticleRiots: An All-American Tradition
The most noteworthy aspect of the series of popular demonstrations in response to the “police lynchings” of African-Americans that have occured over the last few years may well be how few riots have...
View ArticleThe ‘Palestinian Chair’: Exposing Israel’s Direct Role in US Violence
The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of an African American man, George Floyd, at the hands of Minneapolis police officers is, once more,...
View ArticleSquashing the Vote
In late May, before the surge of Covid-19 cases in 22 states, Trump threatened to withhold aid to Michigan and Nevada over their plans to permit voting by mail. Such withholding is illegal. Trump...
View ArticleHere Comes Your 19th Nervous Breakdown: the Mental State of Donald Trump
The attitude of the media and the American people towards Donald Trump’s personality has been the longest emperor-has-no-clothes tale ever told. A man who has been called a “fucking moron” by one of...
View ArticleDylan Does Have a Lot on His Mind, But the NYT Didn’t Want to Talk About It
“Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind,” the New York Times reported on June 12. That’s for sure. In late March, as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down America, the 79 year old singer-songwriter released...
View ArticleContaining the Black Lives Matter Movement: Democrats and Republicans Play...
A long smoldering and now massive popular response to injustice has been catalyzed by the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th. Even Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson concedes,...
View ArticlePolicing Protest: the Dangers of Media Bias During Urban Uprisings
Amidst a national reckoning with anti-Black racism and white supremacy throughout the United States, legacy media outlets have published highly problematic and dangerous articles on recent protests...
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The Political Economy of Covid-19
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Governments around the world are attempting to prop up a failing capitalist system by — surprise! — throwing money at wealthy individuals and corporations, especially...
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Unsimple Twists of Fate in an Election Year, a Pandemic Year, and Year Four...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair What we expect comes to pass far more often than what we do not, though it can sometimes seem otherwise because an improbable turn of events is remarkable in ways that...
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Lesser of Two Evils: Chomsky vs. Greenwald . . . and the Ignored Factor
Photograph Source: Lord Jim – CC BY 2.0 Noam Chomsky believes that it is so imperative that Trump be defeated that he will vote for Biden, while Glenn Greenwald challenges the political strategy of the...
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Tipping the Nuclear Dominos
Photograph Source: bixentro – CC BY 2.0 If the Trump administration follows through on its threat to re-start nuclear tests, it will complete the unraveling of more than 50 years of arms control...
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Roaming Charges: Nothing But Rednecks for 400 Years, If You Check
Booking photos for five Virginia residents who threatened to kill a black pastor when he caught them dumping a broken fridge on his property this week. Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps...
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Living the Panther Dream – An Interview with Black Panther Party Veteran...
Photo courtesy of Aaron Dixon. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a Black man, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white Policeman in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Captured on camera and viewed by millions, Floyd’s...
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