Brexit and Away!
Painful moves and painful movements have been underway in Brexiting Britain. Prime Minister Theresa May of the UK initiated the Brexit bluster via letter, and March 29, 2017 may well go down in the...
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President Says It, Press Reports It, Public Buys It
Political scientist Anthony DiMaggio is one of the most astute analysts of American media. A practitioner of public science, his work provides readers with a deep understanding of how debates around...
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Pop Cinema: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Still from “Get Out” Each year I review over 100 films with most of them being the kind that show up in art houses: leftist documentaries, foreign-language films, American indies and the like. In...
View ArticleThe Way Students Strike in Puerto Rico
There’s a student strike at the University of Puerto’s main campus. Recently, the Federal Fiscal Control Board demanded that the university administration present a plan to execute a 450 million dollar...
View ArticleCountdown to Disaster: Trump’s Looming Afghan Crisis
Ten days after taking office, Pres. Donald Trump’s ordered his first foreign military initiative, a covert counterterrorism operation by Navy’s SEAL Team 6 in Yemen. He apparently approved the attack...
View ArticleThe Ukrainian Famine: Only Evidence Can Disclose the Truth
No detective can solve a crime without carefully and objectively studying the evidence. Likewise, no one can know what actually occurred in history without studying, in an objective manner, the...
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Oligarchy in America
Photo by Joe Schueller | CC BY 2.0 Naming the System In democracies, the demos, the people, rule; not social or economic elites. This was the understanding of philosophers in Athens twenty-five...
View ArticleFalse Flag Dog-Wag Warning
I’m not a Truther and never have been. I don’t obsess over the JFK assassination, which (however) always sort of struck me as a CIA and/or Mafia and Cuban exile hit. My interactions with conspiracy...
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On Economic Patriotism: Capitalist Nationalism and the Making of American...
Photo by Metro Centric | CC BY 2.0 It is frequently said that Americans are the most patriotic population in the world. From childhood we are taught that we are the highest-minded, richest, most...
View ArticleOpioids Aren’t the Problem and Chris Christie Isn’t the Solution
On Wednesday, President Trump announced the establishment of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, to be headed up by noted public health addiction expert…New...
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Review: Daniel Karpowitz’s “College in Prison”
If you seek inspiration in these depressing times, if you need one iota of decency to keep you going, if you despair that Donald Trump’s lack of humility will permeate every aspect of our culture,...
View ArticleViolence: Theirs and Ours
“I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favor of using poison gas against uncivilized tribes. It would spread a lively terror.” — Winston Churchill, 1920, with...
View ArticleThe Beneficiaries of Conflict With Russia
On January 30 NBC News reported that “On a snowy Polish plain dominated by Russian forces for decades, American tanks and troops sent a message to Moscow and demonstrated the firepower of the NATO...
View ArticleNAFTA Kills: Who will Speak for the Working Class?
A recent report out of the US raises questions about politicians’ (in Canada and the US) obsession with the state of the middle class and highlights why Donald Trump won the US election. It is a...
View ArticleTrump Trauma
While we mourn the tragedy that fear, prejudice and ignorance “trumped” in this election, now is the time to go deeper and broader with our work. There is a growing recognition that the scary situation...
View ArticleNight Is Day and Day Is Night
As I approached the grocery’s checkout lane, a magazine cover’s words greeted, “51 REASONS FOR HOPE”. Hmm, hope. The pessimism I feel, not only about the present but also the future, shaped my...
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Organize the White Working Class!
Photo by jareed | CC BY 2.0 “ . . . their (the poor “whites”) own position, vis-a-vis the rich and powerful . . . was not improved, but weakened, by the white-skin privilege system.” – Theodore W....
View ArticleThe BRICS New Development Bank Meets in Delhi–to Dash Green-Developmental Hopes?
Will the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) bloc ever really challenge the world financial order, as is often advertised? New Development Bank (NDB) leaders meet in Delhi this weekend, to...
View ArticleMissteps in Mosul: Launching an Attack Before Clearing ISIS Safe Zones
The Iraqi government made a mistake that will allow Isis to survive by seeking to capture Mosul before eliminating other Isis safe havens in northern and western Iraq to which its fighters can retreat,...
View ArticleBernie to Democrats: You’ll Never Win Without Independents
Bernie Sanders’ calls to reform the Democratic Party have been echoed by his progressive supporters since his presidential campaign, though the Democratic Party establishment has repeatedly ignored...
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