Photograph Source: Joergsam – CC BY-SA 3.0 The heat dome tour finished its “Old Europe” dates, e.g., Iberia, France, Italy and even the Swiss Alps, of which I caught the last sweltering segment. Returning to Transylvania, although with the dome somewhat diminished, I...
Photo by Jon Tyson (Yeah yeah, spoiler alert) Before now I didn’t know the fictional country of “Boravia” was first made up and depicted in 1930s comic books by the creators of Superman, Siegel and Schuster, two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland and Toronto. When I saw...
Image by Annie Spratt. Over the last fifty years, the Palestinian struggle against Israel’s occupation has been described in various ways by friend and foe alike. The descriptions coming from the latter are usually echoes of Israel’s perception of the situation. In...
Photograph Source: United States Department of Health and Human Services – Public Domain Bodily autonomy—the right to privacy and integrity over our own bodies—is rapidly vanishing. We are entering a new age of algorithmic, authoritarian control, where our thoughts,...
Screenshot source: Department of Justice On July 14, Roman Storm’s trial — on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, and violating US sanctions — began in a Manhattan courtroom. The allegations sound...
Photo by Nico Baum Since we seem to again be in a tariff-crazy phase of Donald Trump’s presidency, it is worth explaining the meaning of a tariff so that even Treasury Secretary Bessent, Commerce Secretary Lutnick, and New York Times headline writers can understand...
Toledo, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. In London, UK, last week, on a rare overseas trip, I attended the launch of a new campaign initiated by the Climate Majority Project to refocus the efforts of climate advocates from mitigation (cutting greenhouse gases) to...
Photograph Source: United States Department of Health and Human Services – Public Domain Bodily autonomy—the right to privacy and integrity over our own bodies—is rapidly vanishing. We are entering a new age of algorithmic, authoritarian control, where our thoughts,...
Screenshot source: Department of Justice On July 14, Roman Storm’s trial — on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, and violating US sanctions — began in a Manhattan courtroom. The allegations sound...
Photo by Nico Baum Since we seem to again be in a tariff-crazy phase of Donald Trump’s presidency, it is worth explaining the meaning of a tariff so that even Treasury Secretary Bessent, Commerce Secretary Lutnick, and New York Times headline writers can understand...
Toledo, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. In London, UK, last week, on a rare overseas trip, I attended the launch of a new campaign initiated by the Climate Majority Project to refocus the efforts of climate advocates from mitigation (cutting greenhouse gases) to...
Photograph Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority – CC BY 2.0 In a remarkable upset, progressive State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. Early polls showed Mamdani starting his...