Liberals, Class and the Joker Complex
Warning: this article contains spoilers Many parts of the liberal press don’t much seem to like Joker; not a few of them appear to have made up their mind about the movie before having even seen it....
View ArticleTrump’s Opponents Have Him Beat . . . When It Comes to Incompetence
If Trump were to finally shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, Nancy Pelosi and Jerrold Nadler and company would not declare it acceptable, absolutely not. But what they would do would be to open a...
View ArticleNew Report Reveals Oil Waste in CA Aquifers
MCKITTRICK, California Do you still think of California as the nation’s “green” leader? You might take another view of this image propagated by state officials and the media after you look at recent...
View ArticleThe Rights of Nature
“When the U.S. Constitution was ratified, women, indigenous peoples, and slaves were treated as property, without rights.” This isn’t over yet. In the same vein of exploitative ignorance, we’re still...
View ArticleThe New Workers’ Revolution is Afoot
Last year TechCrunch ran a piece postulating “What If Google unionized?” after over 20,000 Google workers walked out of their offices in protest of how the tech giant has handled harassment and...
View ArticleTake Their Feet Off Our Necks
Our beloved Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the fiery advocate for gender equality, is a current Justice in the US Supreme Court. Even before joining the Court, in 1973 Ginsburg argued the case of a female Air...
View ArticleThose Quaint Corporate Scandals in Japan
I was struck by a New York Times article on the disruptions within the corporate hierarchy at Nissan, the huge Japanese automaker. The article begins: “An outside law firm investigating problems at...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Donald Trump
Our crippled political system has produced a president who is clearly mentally ill and unfit for the office he holds. His narcissistic self-love only allows him to embrace people who are unstintingly...
View ArticleClimate Change: All Talk No Action
Awareness of climate change and the interconnected environmental crisis is growing throughout the world. Protest movements led by Extinction Rebellion and School Strike for Climate increase in number...
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Killing the Messengers: Rising Violence Against Journalists and Indigenous...
In February 2005, the body of 73-year-old Sister Dorothy Stang was found on the side of a remote dirt road 33 miles from Anapu, Pará, in Brazil’s AmazonBasin. Seven bullets pierced her body. The first...
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Reflections on General Giap and the End of an Era in Vietnam
General Vo Nguyen Giap (2nd, R) and other commanding officers discuss Dien Bien Phu plans in 1954. Photo courtesy of Hanoi’s Museum of Dien Bien Phu Victory. Six years have passed but the memory of the...
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Building Soldier Resistance Under the Shadows of Fascism
In the summer of 1967, I was edging closer to joining the Trotskyist movement. In June, Israel had claimed victory in the Six-Day War. This left it with the occupied territories that have continued to...
View ArticleUpcoming Elections Represent Testing Time for Bolivia’s Socialist Government
Bolivian President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García Linera are presently campaigning for their fourth terms in office. In elections set for October 20, Morales, candidate of the Movement to...
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Ode to the Drums of Ginger Baker
Ginger Baker, in performance with Ginger Baker’s Air Force. Ginger Baker, one of our greatest drummers, is dead. They say he died last Sunday, at the age of 80. On the drums he was my teacher in...
View ArticleAdministrative Torture: Free Heba al-Labadi, a Jordanian Citizen in Israeli...
On August 20, Heba Ahmed al-Labadi fell into the dark hole of the Israeli legal system, joining 413 Palestinian prisoners who are currently held in so-called administrative detention. On September 26,...
View ArticleEverything Going Wrong in Okinawa
On 23 February 2016 Admiral Harry Harris, then Commander US Forces Pacific, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, was asked how the construction of the Futenma Replacement Facility was...
View ArticleWhy Trump is Facing Impeachment
“The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other...
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The Empire Is Running Out of War Stories. Or is it? Will American...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair American Exceptionalism remains one of the innermost ideas shaping our national identity and still lies behind all of the war stories used to justify US foreign...
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The Pentagon is Pledging to Reform Itself, Again. It Won’t.
Photograph Source: 1945 map of the Pentagon road network – Public Domain For the Pentagon, happy days are here again (if they ever left). With a budget totaling more than $1.4 trillion for the next two...
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Donald Trump, the Christian Warrior
Photograph Source: Marco Verch – CC BY 2.0 It turns out that President Donald Trump has a “top religion advisor.” This is surprising because there is no evidence that President Trump has a “top...
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