I realize Democrats and progressives more generally love to lose. What else can possibly explain their insistence on framing their policies in the worst possible way? This point is continually pounded home when progressives adopt the framework where the right wants...
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Employers are Failing to Insure the Working Class – Medicaid Cuts Will Leave Them Even More Vulnerable
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 7.8 million Americans across the U.S. will lose their coverage through Medicaid – the public program that provides health insurance to low-income families and individuals – under the multitrillion-dollar domestic policy...
The US Army at 250: Extirpation, Genocidal Violence, Lies and Insecurity
Photograph Source: U.S. Army photo by Bernardo Fuller – Public Domain Introduction The US army and military apparatuses are divided. This division is sharpened by the political, economic, and ideological crises in US society. One of the better ways to understand its...
Portland in 2020, Los Angeles Today, the United States Tomorrow?
Image by Dylan Gillis. “I must say,” Donald Trump commented, “I wish we had an occupying force.” It was June 1, 2020. The president, then in his first term in office, was having a phone call with the nation’s governors to discuss the ongoing Black Lives Matter (BLM)...
Does Bukele the Strongman Show Weakness When Imprisoning Critics?
Photograph Source: Casa Presidencial – CC0 – Public Domain Despite President Nayib Bukele’s persistent hype, it’s a dangerous time in El Salvador. The significant democratic spaces carved out by the Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992 continue to diminish, as Bukele’s...
Social Medicine and Genocide / La Medicina Social y el Genocidio
Shortly after the right-wing, ethnosupremacist government in power in Israel initiated its genocidal assault on Palestinian people of Gaza, Social Medicine/Medicina Social registered its opposition. The November 2023 issue of Social Medicine/Medicina Social included...
Proxy War: US Regime Change in the Russian Federation
Stepan Bandera torchlight procession 2020, Kyiv. Photograph Source: A1 – Public Domain – CC0 In previous essays in the real free press (the US mainstream media is currently ranked 57th in press freedom by Reporters Without Borders), I discussed the sabotage operations...
Britain Quits the ‘Free World’
Photo by Avery Evans Cambridge, UK— The United Kingdom just leapfrogged the US to become the leading country in the so-called “Free World” to abandon its much-touted tradition of freedom of speech, press, and assembly, along with the right to protest. The move to...
The Fanatic’s Gaze: Louis Theroux and the West Bank Settlers
Photograph Source: Claire Boxall – Public Domain He has made it his bread and butter for years: finding society’s kooky representatives, the marginal, the crazed and the touched. But what makes Louis Theroux’s The Settlers troubling is its examination of a seemingly...
The Criminalization and Resistance of Brown People in El Norte
Photograph Source: Becker1999 – CC BY 2.0 As a U.S.-born citizen of Mexican origin, as the saying goes, I constantly feel like a “foreigner in my own land.” During these dark times, when brown people—my people—are being targeted, kidnapped and imprisoned by ICE...
Proteste deboli in movimento
Il Novecento è stato fecondo di soggetti molteplici che si sono posti il tema della trasformazione con una carica e una speranza utopica elevata. Sconfitti, hanno lasciato un’eredità pesante di interrogativi e un bisogno di trovare nuovi soggetti per soddisfare...
Il decreto flussi: l’ennesima truffa delle etichette
Il decreto flussi predisposto dal Governo è uno strumento inadeguato e irrazionale. Non solo per il numero assolutamente insufficiente di lavoratori stranieri che potranno essere assunti, ma anche per una serie di incongruenze interne e perché si fonda sul presupposto...