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...
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...
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...
Image by Manny Becerra. A far-right President was elected in 2024 despite a strong majority of Americans supporting progressive economic and social policies. How can we begin to cohere this progressive majority into a winning political force under the Trump...
Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. Lionel Messi’s continued success as a soccer player calls for an explanation of his remarkable abilities. Together with the Brazilian player Pelé and the Argentinian Maradona, he is consistently ranked among the three best players in...
Why are we still screwing around? I mean, come on, it’s time to bite the bullet and get ‘er done! Why are we spending so much time and money on rounding up immigrants, then more money on shipping them overseas and paying other countries to jail ‘em? I thought DOGE was...
Wherever you live these days, you’re likely seeing plenty of evidence that political polarization is increasing all around you. Some of this polarization is reinforcing conventional left-right fault lines. Elsewhere in the world, other divisions — cultural, social,...
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain It is infuriating to see the media and politicians, including Democratic ones, refer to some of Trump’s campaign promises as “populist” tax cuts. Clearly, they were poll and focus-group tested and likely helped him...
Photo by Christopher Zarriello About 30 years ago the industry-spawned strategy of “collaboration” entered the policy arena to influence and neuter the “conservation movement” that was dedicated to protecting the rapidly disappearing old growth forests, native...