Donald, Donald, Donald, we told you a million times not to exaggerate
We deserve better leadership, but we won’t get it until we the people make it happen.
The carbon capture plants that COP26 didn’t discuss
The time has come to stop viewing these plants with a blind eye and start to use them in an effective way.
The Struggle for Merdeka in West Papua
“The Indonesian elite ensures that West Papua is relatively isolated from media scrutiny, access to international agencies and diplomats (even though many western states are well known to oppose any indigenous struggle for self-determination, given it would only raise questions about their own subjugated indigenous populations).”
Your Rights and Our Election
“Re-elect McConnell and his ilk, vote in Donald Trump, and watch what happens to your rights.”
Starving and bombed children of Yemen seek entrapment in flooded Thai cave
“Am I pleased that the 12 children and their coach in Thailand were rescued? Of course I am. I just wish that an equivalent effort was being made to rescue each of the 50,000 children we will kill today, tomorrow, the next day and the day after that….”
Is the People’s Party moving?
We progressives cannot just sit there. We need to organize, and do it now, in order to be ready for whatever comes our way.
(Belief in) this lie called Democracy
So long as we continue to allow private money into electoral politics, there will never be the foundation for a true democracy...
Defending Julian Assange; Defending the Truth
On 11 April 2019, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London by UK police and arrested for...
Will Hillary Take Plutocratic ‘Clinton, Inc.’ Global?
Welcome to the new series, “The Hero of a Thousand Escapes.” What other celebrity political duo instantly transforms any election into melodrama at best, family intrigue at worse, rife with influence peddling, suspect donations, policy failures (NAFTA, health care), strategic blunders (Libya, Syria, China), and bungled secrecy that inevitably gets unmasked? The greatest downside to President Hillary is elevation of first female whose gender novelty promises no jolts to the grievous status quo nor confrontation to the plutocracy that funds it (and her). Forget her age: Hillary's range (and clientele) represent something new and more dangerous.
Toxic Clichés
Our students will be facing challenges beyond what we can begin to imagine, if these past few years are any indication, crises that require far-ranging intelligence, imagination, sensitivity.