David Dubinsky of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union speaks against the Taft–Hartley Act, May 4, 1947 If you’ve ever watched a union campaign get crushed by employer intimidation, wondered why you see so few strikes, or been frustrated that unions don’t...
Image by Beyza Yurtkuran. Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an upcoming demonstration against the Reagan administration’s support for the Contras fighting...
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain In 1938, five years into Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” the US remained mired in the depths of a “Great Depression.” Real income still hadn’t regained its 1929 level. Unemployment stood at six times at level....
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Donald Trump is a dangerous president. His rallying slogan, “Make America Great Again,” bespeaks a crisis that not only defines the nation but one he is incapable of honestly – and successfully – addressing. To celebrate his...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair War movies are not a favored genre in the United States these days. But there are exceptions that make it big in the box office. One is Blackhawk Down, directed by Scott Ridley, which depicted the big, botched raid to capture General...
Image by Egor Myznik. Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), allowed the IAEA to be used by the United States and Israel—an undeclared nuclear weapons state in long-term violation of IAEA rules—to manufacture a pretext for...
Image Source: X.com Many people might have seen the tweet from the person who posts under the name “ThePatriotOasis,” which claimed that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz deleted a series of tweets praising Vance Boelter. Boelter was the person who had murdered the former...
Image by Brett Wharton. Unlike Russia’s quarrel with Kyiv or China’s claim to Taiwan, Washington’s war with Iran is not rooted in a national dispute with the U.S. It is a project subcontracted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his lobby group, American...
Photo by Dan Meyers On 21 June, the United States struck three locations in Iran with its massive military force. These locations were Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz – three areas where Iran has its nuclear energy facilities. To be clear, Iran’s nuclear energy facilities...
Image by Pascal Debrunner. In memory of Refaat Alareer and Hind Rajab I’ll be brief, friends, speak quickly, this much I’ve learned: there’s no perfection in plague years, the soul of wit’s an engine of breath, a puff of smoke, a pinch of salt, a string, a tale, a...
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Congress should pass a law to help select and maintain a stable president in the future. This would require presidents to undergo neurocognitive exams to determine if they are mentally impaired or unstable. To take...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On November 19, 2023, Belal Jadallah, the founding director of Press House, Palestine, was killed by an Israeli air strike as he tried to evacuate Gaza City. A decade of advocacy for independent Palestinian journalism ended in rubble....