Photo by Ryan Moreno One of the oldest maxims in advertising is that sex “sells.” But it turns out that race – and racial controversy – “sells,” too. Witness the sprawling controversy over an American Eagle advertising campaign to promote sales of its new line of blue...
Cargo ship entering the Columbia River from the Pacific. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. As the Trump Administration continues to push ineffective tariff policies and ignite trade wars, America’s working families hang in the balance — caught between rising prices and a...
Photograph Source: Tasnim News Agency – CC BY 4.0 Five journalists were among the 22 people killed on Aug. 25, 2025, in Israeli strikes on the Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Following global condemnation, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Image by David Garry. It’s that time of year when the days get shorter. The air turns crisp. The shadows stretch longer. And school starts. It’s also that time when yet another pompous business CEO or ed-tech executive with zero classroom experience trots out a...
Global political history is punctuated by state entities that, after vanishing from the international stage, have reemerged in new forms—sometimes radically transformed, sometimes strikingly faithful to their origins. These revived states—polities that have undergone...
Photograph Source: Sha Fei – Public Domain As China prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of victory over fascism on September 3, 2025, global attention turns to Beijing’s military parade. Speculation swirls about which world leaders will join President Xi...
In many quarters, the New York Times’ David Sanger is considered the country’s best diplomatic journalist. After a recent article in the NYTs, titled “Trump’s Personal Diplomacy Results in a Strategic Muddle” maybe it’s time to scrutinize his work more carefully. ...
CBC News, YouTube screenshot. Anyone who has doubted the Chomsky-Herman propaganda model of mass media has surely had their skepticism tested over the past twenty-two months. The axiom that media “serve to mobilize support for the special interests that dominate the...
The Academy of Plato. Mosaic from Pompeii, Villa Siminios Stephanos. 1st century. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. Wikipedia Commons Plato, 428-348 BCE, grew up in a war-ravaged Athens fighting the Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BCE. This civil conflict nearly...
Photograph Source: Federal Reserve – Public Domain The stock market rallied big-time on Friday as Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell indicated that the Fed was likely to lower interest rates at its September meeting. In assessing whether a rate cut is...
Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. The cost of war is not born by the world Leaders who are safely ensconced in their offices With beautiful views, a world unseen. The cost of war is the broken Geometry of childhood The millions of starving and sick children And those...
Photograph Source: BAE Systems – OGL 3 The moment the security pact known as AUKUS came into being, it was clear what its true intention was. Announced in September 2021, ruinous to Franco-Australian relations, and Anglospheric in inclination, the agreement between...