Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As usual, the New York Times gets things exactly wrong in a piece headlined “Trump’s Tariffs are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.” The gist of the article is that the tariffs are on a path to raise close to $400 billion...
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On Starvation Hasbara
Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. August 2nd to 3rd 2025 marked the “holiday” of Tisha B’av. Jews observe it with readings of Lamentations, a part of the extended Torah, chronicling the history of one of many catastrophic destructions of the nation of Israel. Observant Jews...
The War Economy at the Border
Image by Greg Bulla. While Venezuela Reunites Families, the U.S. Builds a $131 Billion Border War Machine In July 2025, the U.S. Congress passed a budget that commits $131 billion to expanding detention, deportation, and border militarization. It is the largest...
A Textbook Case of How Tax Policy Fuels Obscene Wealth Accumulation
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The recent wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez in Venice set off quite the furor over tax avoidance. An enormous banner in the Piazza San Marco put the matter plainly: “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more...
The Proud Republican History of Paranoia and Anti-Semitism About Government Statistics
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...
Gaza’s Starvation, Israeli Lies and the Tail that Wags the Dog
Whenever Israel yields to international pressure and allows aid trucks into Gaza, it devises other methods to ensure that food is never delivered. On the same day, July 26, Israel announced airdrops and “humanitarian corridors” for UN convoys, its forces murdered 53...
Anti-Capitalist Road Trip
It seems so long ago, but the movement against global capitalism that featured mass protests against meetings of capital’s biggest criminals and powerbrokers (usually one and the same) had center stage a mere twenty-five years ago. For those who participated, it was...
Anti-Capitalist Road Trip
It seems so long ago, but the movement against global capitalism that featured mass protests against meetings of capital’s biggest criminals and powerbrokers (usually one and the same) had center stage a mere twenty-five years ago. For those who participated, it was...
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....
The Proud Republican History of Paranoia and Anti-Semitism About Government Statistics
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...
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...
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...