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The Problem With Hillary
Photo by DonkeyHotey | CC BY 2.0 With one week to go in this year’s presidential election — an astonishing and depressing contest in which the two least-liked and least-trusted candidates in history...
View ArticleThe Silver Linings in Trump’s Win
Let’s look on the bright side. Donald J. Trump is the next president of the United States. His stunning victory over Hillary Clinton came after he had first crushed the Republican Party establishment,...
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About that Legacy, Mr. President
Photo by janeyhenning | CC BY 2.0 There is a lot of talk going on among the pundits about how President Obama is leaving no enduring legacy — that his progressive actions as president, few and small...
View ArticleObama’s Last Big Con
Much was made when Barack Obama made his historic run for the White House of the fact that in the course of his relatively young life he had been a “community organizer” and that in addition to having...
View ArticleWounded Knee III in the Making?
The struggle at Standing Rock, North Dakota, between the Sioux people and their supporters and the oil corporations and banks trying to run a dangerous pipeline for filthy Bakkan crude oil through...
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Confessions of an Alleged ‘Russian Propagandist’: A Pentagon Hit?
Photo by Jedimentat44 | CC BY 2.0 ThisCantBeHappening.net didn’t make the Washington Post’s list of 200 news sites that are “purveyors of Russian propaganda” designed to “undermine Americans’ faith...
View ArticleIs Trump’s Idea To Fix the ‘Rigged System’ by Appointing Crooks Who’ve Played...
Donald Trump’s cabinet choices are suggesting a governing philosophy along the lines of a corrupt municipal police force relying on gangsters to help it keep street crime held in check. Trump has been...
View ArticleIs Trump’s Idea To Fix a ‘Rigged System’ by Appointing Crooks Who’ve Played It?
Donald Trump’s cabinet choices are suggesting a governing philosophy along the lines of a corrupt municipal police force relying on gangsters to help it keep street crime held in check. Trump has been...
View ArticleThe U.S. Dares to Criticize Israel
It seems that, perhaps, Israel’s latest slaughter of defenseless Palestinians may have been a bit too much even for the United States to condone. In what may be the U.S.’s harshest, although still...
View ArticleThe Alternative to Long-Term Austerity
“A spectre is haunting the treasuries and central banks of the West – the spectre of secular stagnation. What if there is no sustainable recovery of the economic slump of 2008-2013? What if the...
View ArticleWe Don’t Need Climate Marches, We Need a Political Awakening
Last month’s People’s Climate March, with 310,000 people flooding the streets of New York, has been lauded by many as a victory in broadening the climate movement. Bill McKibben, who penned a “Call to...
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Capitalist Denial and Climate Chaos
Capitalism is a term that comes fully loaded in the Western psyche. It is a Rorschach test that brings history, ideology and personal experience to the fore. Capitalism is perceived as oppositional, as...
View ArticleOnce More, Into the Quagmire
More than 191,000 dead in Syria during the civil war. Four to five million displaced. Nearly 3,800 slaughtered in Iraq in September alone. The numbers mount. But America is back on the case. President...
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The Civil War and 150 Years of Forgotten US Military Atrocities
George Orwell wrote in 1945 that “the nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” The same moral...
View ArticleChallenging Drone Warfare in Court
On October 7, 2014, Kathy Kelly and Georgia Walker appeared before Judge Matt Whitworth in Jefferson City, MO, federal court on a charge of criminal trespass to a military facility. The charge was...
View ArticleDeer Hunting in Virginia While the World Burns
“Managing Virginia’s wildlife to maintain optimum populations of all species to serve the needs of the Commonwealth”; – Mission Statement, website of Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries...
View ArticleGetting Bolshie Over the Human Rights Act
“The Tories’ major announcement was to scrap the Human Rights Act, because, and I quote, ‘people get very frustrated with human rights.’” Tim Farron, Liberal Democrats President, The Guardian, Oct 7,...
View ArticleThe Follies of John Kerry
“Look, let me be clear,” said US Secretary of State John Kerry, signaling he was about to obfuscate. “The United States doesn’t ever trade its concern for human rights for any other objective,” he...
View ArticleLatin America’s Recessions: Made in the USA
Three major economies of Latin America—Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela—entered recession in 2014. And in all three cases their recessions may be subtitled, ‘Made in the USA’. After growing at 5% to 9%...
View ArticleClimate Destruction in the Court of Public Opinion
As the leaders of more than a hundred of the world’s governments addressed the U.N. Climate Summit last week, people’s organizations from around the world convened a Climate Justice Tribunal across...
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