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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...