Photo: White House. Donald Trump’s decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), brings back memories of Richard Nixon’s orders to identify Jews at the Labor Department. Both efforts stem from paranoid delusions that the...
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The Enclosure of the Commons and the War Economy: A Feminist and Anti-Colonial Critique
Poster issued during World War I by the educational division of the U.S. Food Administration – Public Domain The commons refers to shared cultural and natural resources, such as air, water, and land, which are accessible to and protected by all members of a community....
A Nobel Moment: Recognizing Francesca Albanese’s Moral Courage
Francesca Albanese, Wikipedia. In a world dominated by Western hegemony and silence in the face of injustice, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese stands apart. Through her immense courage under fire, Albanese has supplanted herself as the preeminent voice of the...
The Strategic Nightmare That is National Missile Defense
Image Source: Missile Defense Agency – Public Domain Last month, I wrote about the waste and futility of deploying a national missile defense (NMD), focussing on the technical issues that make the system unnecessary, unworkable and unaffordable. This week, I want to...
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Genocide
Free Gaza banner in Hiroshima. As the Zionist project devolves from apartheid and ethnic cleansing to the final solution of its decades-long genocide, we also commemorate 80 years since the August 6 and August 9 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Let us...
Lula and Brazil’s Unions Respond to Trump’s Threats
On July 30, US President Donald Trump declared bilateral relations with Brazil a national emergency in order to justify raising import tariffs. In a menacing statement entitled “Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Brazil,” he declared: Recent...
The New York Times Does Not Fear Trump… But Bret Stephens Is Another Matter
Photo by Jon Tyson After the long-time skittish New York Times published a lengthy essay by the renowned genocide scholar, Prof. Omer Bartov of Brown University titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar, I Know It When I see It,” the Palestinian-hater, Timescolumnist Bret...
Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror
Image by Dan Meyers. Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. The indications, then and since, that the development of nuclear weapons did not bode well for human survival, were clear enough. The two...
How Grassroots Labor Activist Fight Callous Policies
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Harmon Dent’s congregation “adopted” an apartment building in Beaumont, Texas, and started handing out gift baskets, food, and other treats to the disadvantaged children living there. Dent, the pastor, also leads church members in...
Misusing the Children: The UK Online Safety Act, Privacy and Censorship
Photo by freestocks The United Kingdom can always be relied upon to supply us with the eccentric, the admirably dotty, and the odd extreme bit of adventure in policy. Lately, those mad protectors and censors with their shields of false virtue and hollow intellect...
The Strategic Nightmare That is National Missile Defense
Image Source: Missile Defense Agency – Public Domain Last month, I wrote about the waste and futility of deploying a national missile defense (NMD), focussing on the technical issues that make the system unnecessary, unworkable and unaffordable. This week, I want to...
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Genocide
Free Gaza banner in Hiroshima. As the Zionist project devolves from apartheid and ethnic cleansing to the final solution of its decades-long genocide, we also commemorate 80 years since the August 6 and August 9 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Let us...