Journalism as Subversion
Global capitalism erases the world's stories and histories. It seeks to shut out our voices, hopes and dreams by replacing the actual and the real with fake and false. Is its ultimate goal to create a vast historical amnesia?
Prison: Therapeutic centers or academies of crime?
All is interconnected; prisons and crime are consequential elements within a societal structure of injustice and prejudice, which requires fundamental change.
Trump fiddles while America burns and the world turns away
It’s up to all of us to do what we can to end this Dark Age. And to vote like America’s life depends on it. Because it does.
Inhumane, criminal: What the US Congress is refusing to do for desperate Americans
While Americans are suffering, these politicians in the Senate don’t lack for anything. In this Congress more than half of its members are millionaires.
Some early lessons from the war in Ukraine
"We will not give up, and we will not lose. We will fight till the end — at sea, in the air, we will continue fighting for our land whatever the cost. We will fight in the forests, in the fields, on the shores, in the streets."
China will decide the outcome of Russia v. the West
Is Putin the face of the future or the final gasp of the past?
The two decades that created our world’s first mass middle class
If we take on our rich, we can recreate that success.
Only one last ‘Christian’* vote? But there’s a silver lining
Forget whether outcomes are legit, / Now ended by mobs with holy writ.
Breaking things: A proposal of resistance
A proposal of resistance seeking people to think about what can be done, and what is required from local governments to response to the viciousness and brutality of ICE and other federal agents occupying our cities and towns.
Waterboarding for dollars in Cuba
The CBS Sunday Morning program, “Next: Cuba?” which aired on April 26, presented a discussion of the recent intensification of sanctions on...