Photo by Ousa Chea The laboratory of developmental biologist Michael Levin at Tufts University, with its dozen or so postgrads, is a hub of ideas, experiments, and discoveries. Most exciting is the focus on cognition as a process involving the entire human...
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Sound Grammar: Francis Davis and the Best Jazz of 2025, So Far
Image: Jeffrey St. Clair. I bought my first ‘jazz’ LP in 1974 at a headshop called Karma on the southside of Indianapolis, thinking it was a rock record: Birds of Fire by the Mahavishnu Orchestra. This genre-melding recording did rock, but in ways I hadn’t heard...
Illness and Endless Wars
Image by Europena. War kills in so many ways. These days, Americans are bombarded with images from Gaza and elsewhere of people or broken bodies being ferried on stretchers from the rubble of homes and hospitals, by rescue workers whose thin bodies and stricken faces...
The Inevitable Militarization of Space?
Boeings X-37B 1 sits on the runway after landing at the Shuttle Landing Facility at KSC.. U.S. Space Force/Staff Sgt. Adam Shanks President Donald Trump’s plans to build a space-based Golden Dome missile defense shield have drawn immediate criticism from China, which...
Can Israel Survive without the West? The Answer Reveals Our Collective Power
Image by Janne Leimola. The Israeli genocide in Gaza, along with the escalating regional wars it has ignited, has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the security and stability of the entire Middle...
How SCOTUS Killed Democracy: Seven Supreme Court Decisions That Brought Fascism to America
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision on June 27, 2025 created in Donald Trump an American fascist dictator. The decision in the case Trump v. CASA, Inc. did not seem momentous. It declared only that Federal District judges could no...
Genocide Made Invisible
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Whatever the outcomes of Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House on Monday and the latest scenario for a ceasefire in Gaza, a bilateral policy of genocide has united the Israeli and U.S. governments in a pact of literally...
Gunfire Communication with “Zombie Hordes”: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the IDF
Photograph Source: Ashraf Amra – CC BY-SA 4.0 It’s made to order. First, eliminate the aid system after creating circumstances of enormous suffering. Then, kill, starve, vanquish and displace those in need of that aid. Finally: give the pretence of humanity by...
The Frontier Research at Michael Levin’s Biology Lab
Photo by Ousa Chea The laboratory of developmental biologist Michael Levin at Tufts University, with its dozen or so postgrads, is a hub of ideas, experiments, and discoveries. Most exciting is the focus on cognition as a process involving the entire human...
Sound Grammar: Francis Davis and the Best Jazz of 2025, So Far
Image: Jeffrey St. Clair. I bought my first ‘jazz’ LP in 1974 at a headshop called Karma on the southside of Indianapolis, thinking it was a rock record: Birds of Fire by the Mahavishnu Orchestra. This genre-melding recording did rock, but in ways I hadn’t heard...
Illness and Endless Wars
Image by Europena. War kills in so many ways. These days, Americans are bombarded with images from Gaza and elsewhere of people or broken bodies being ferried on stretchers from the rubble of homes and hospitals, by rescue workers whose thin bodies and stricken faces...
The Inevitable Militarization of Space?
Boeings X-37B 1 sits on the runway after landing at the Shuttle Landing Facility at KSC.. U.S. Space Force/Staff Sgt. Adam Shanks President Donald Trump’s plans to build a space-based Golden Dome missile defense shield have drawn immediate criticism from China, which...