Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” —Quote attributed to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, repeated often by editor/journalist Lewis Lapham in...
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Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair After promising during the 2024 election to stop the USA’s ‘forever wars’ in the 21st century, in less than six months in office Donald Trump is about to start another ‘forever’ war with Iran. There’ll be no prior vote in Congress, as...
Still from footage of Israeli missile strikes in Iran posted to X. For years, I’ve kept a copy of Primo Levi’s If This is Man on the night table. It’s not exactly the kind of reading that eases you into a restorative sleep, but who can slumber soundly at my age and in...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “You know what November 5 was? It was the election of a president that loves you.” – Donald Trump to applause and cheers from soldiers at Fort Bragg, June, 2025 President Richard Nixon told chief of staff Bob Haldeman that his secret...
Image by Margaux Bellott. If you’ve read more than a few of my rants, then you are probably already painfully aware that I am a Queer person and that I take this identity pretty seriously, some of you may even be forgiven for saying annoyingly so. However, you have to...
Funded by the European Commission University of Seville map of Greek marine time jurisdiction in the Aegean. Yet the Greek state of prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is afraid to claim its sovereignty in the Aegean Sea lest it disturbs the “quiet waters” with Turkey....
The photo “UNIFA Event for Restitution” is credit: UNIFA The calls from Haiti have echoed around the world: “France, Pay Your Debt To Haiti!” Demonstrators from Haiti to France to San Francisco, London, Belize, and Jamaica have demanded that France pay for the ransom...
Labubu The Monsters Exciting Macaron series. Pop Mart. For decades, the United States has held a dominant geopolitical position, its soft power radiating through Hollywood blockbusters, Silicon Valley innovations, and democratic ideals. Yet, in recent days, a subtle...
Image by Stan Cox. Two things in America create “bipartisanship”: support for Israel’s apartheid regime and support for endless US war and intervention around the world. — Ali Abunimah, October 16, 2019. I live in the heart of the heart of the imperial core: Kansas....
Maria Malmer Stenergard. Photograph Source: © European Union, 1998 – 2025 Sweden has suspended its support to the UN relief agency UNRWA—against the recommendations of both the UN Secretary-General and the world’s largest humanitarian organizations. What do our...
Photograph Source: Hullian111 – CC BY-SA 4.0 Only months ago, Reform UK and Britain’s trade unions stood on opposite ends—ideologically and strategically. One championed deregulation and individualism; the other, collective bargaining and worker protections. But now,...