Photograph Source: US Government – Public Domain Ida May Fuller received Social Security check #00-000-001 on January 31, 1940. The dependability of the program has never faltered since the Social Security Act was enacted 90 years ago on August 14, 1935. Today, we...
Image by Fons Heijnsbroek. I’m planning to put my house on the market, which means I have to empty it out. No big deal, right? Go through the stuff, get rid of most of it. This is necessary, young man, so do it! Instead, here I am, doing the opposite. I’m writing...
Image by Pyae Sone Htun. If I’m completely honest, I can’t recall all the twists and turns of 1984. I probably read it in high school or maybe as an undergrad, somewhere alongside Animal Farm. They’re the kind of books teachers press into young hands to spark critical...
Unprecedented numbers of heat records have been broken in locations throughout the Northern Hemisphere this summer, and even more records will fall in coming years. Meanwhile, Israel’s mass slaughter and starvation of Palestinians is escalating day by day. And the...
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At some point in Israel’s starvation of Gaza, hunger stopped being just physical, and started to erode the mind. You would see people wandering aimlessly, not even asking for food anymore. Children stopped playing. Conversations became quieter, slower. People forgot...
The US has been transformed into a mirror world, the mirror world of a pathological narcissist, a world of reverse images where victims are flipped into perpetrators, the poor portrayed as exploiters of the super-rich, the weak as persecutors of the strong and where...
It was astonishing to read about the death of Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa (20 years old) on 3 August 2025 inside Israel’s Magiddo prison. Just months earlier , reports emerged that Israeli forces had killed another Palestinian prisoner in Megiddo, Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On August 3, 2025, well over 100,000 thousand Australians swept across Sydney’s Harbour Bridge, protesting Israel’s genocidal starvation of Gaza, stopping traffic for hours. Julian Assange was at the front of the march, and social...
Image by Nick Chong. Michael A. McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools is about the power that finance exerts over people. He inquires into the problem and how it could realistically be solved: Why has finance capitalism left people worse off and further wrecked democracy...
The totalitarian playbook that Donald Trump seems to follow lacks a chapter. Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power. Wise military and diplomatic minds understand it well. George C. Marshall, the nation’s top general through World War II...
Anas Al-Sharif. Photograph Source: Al Jazeera – Fair Use In one night, Israel murdered Al Jazeera’s entire media crew in Gaza City. The Israeli military admitted to assassinating the journalists in an August 10 airstrike on a media tent outside Al-Shifa hospital. The...