This Earth Day reflection urges us to confront two intertwined truths we too often ignore: our relationship to the environment and our treatment of the elderly. Growing up in Ghana, I was taught by my history professor that true life stems from connection—that...
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“Have Some Blood! You Like Shedding It All Over the World So Much? There You Go!”
Through the looking glass. Mike Ferner, of Veterans For Peace, threw blood at the US mission to the UN today: “Here, United States, have some blood! You like shedding it all over the world so much? There you go! How about some blood? A small amount of the blood — the...
Reclaiming the Forgotten: Our Elders, Our Planet
This Earth Day reflection urges us to confront two intertwined truths we too often ignore: our relationship to the environment and our treatment of the elderly. Growing up in Ghana, I was taught by my history professor that true life stems from connection—that...
“Have Some Blood! You Like Shedding It All Over the World So Much? There You Go!”
Through the looking glass. Mike Ferner, of Veterans For Peace, threw blood at the US mission to the UN today: “Here, United States, have some blood! You like shedding it all over the world so much? There you go! How about some blood? A small amount of the blood — the...
Inalienable Rights in an Age of Tyranny
When a long train of abuses and usurpations… evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government. —Declaration of Independence (1776) We are now struggling to emerge from the wreckage of a...
Trump, Leakers, and Journalists
When campaigning in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump was delighted by leaked, hacked or disclosed material that wound its way to the digital treasure troves of WikiLeaks. The online publisher of government secrets had become an invaluable resource for Trump’s...
Iran, Zionism, and the Limits of US Control: An Interview with Faramarz Farbod
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What July 5th Taught Me that July 4th Never Did
Growing up in Venezuela and now living in the United States, I’ve always felt caught between two independence days: July 4th and July 5th. Two celebrations. Two flags. Two very different ideas of what it means to be free. In the U.S., the Fourth of July comes with...
America’s Republicans’ Hatred of the Poor
The budget-and-tax bill that President Trump has placed before America’s U.S. Senators and Representatives to pass by a majority in each of the two houses of Congress is a total repudiation of the first Republican U.S. President (and the only progressive Republican...
Operation Midnight Hammer: Were Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Damaged?
The aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer, a strike by the US Air Force on three nuclear facilities in Iran authorized by President Donald Trump on June 22, was raucous and triumphant. But that depended on what company you were keeping. The mission involved the...
A Battle for Humane Consciousness in a War Against Truth: Exposing the Dark Arts of War
The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which, when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of...
Magical Theatricality in the Ice Age Caves: Why it Should Matter to Socialists
Orientation From the time of the Renaissance until representational art began to be challenged at the end of the 19th century, most of us think of secular art as consisting of separate disciplines – dance, theatre, singing, painting, sculpture and writing. The...