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How Capitalism’s Traumas and Fears are Becoming its Delusions and Psychoses
It’s a contentious one. It feels to me as if our minds are breaking. As if we’re unable to handle living in the difficult realities of now. Like we live in an age where the trauma, anxiety, and fear of living in collapsing economies, fract…
The Bernie-Can’t-Get-the-Black-Vote Myth Continues
URBAN PERSPECTIVE--It was repeatedly said as fact in 2016 and it’s being said again. Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders has a…
Pogoism: The Foundation of America
ONE MAN’S OPINION-Forget what they told you in kindergarten and over the next 12 years of public school and through college and grad school…
Sacrificing Greatness for Personal Ambition: An Open Letter to Turkey’s President Erdogan
PROMOTING THE ISLAMIC AGENDA-Over the past year, I had the opportunity to speak to many Turkish scholars and former government officials, t…
Happy Dictator’s Day
HOLIDAY COLUMN--(Editor’s Note: This being national President’s Day, we went in search of a story that might honor the occasion. We headed…
Putin’s Orders: Trigger the Right with the Words Socialism and Venezuela
MY TURN--Conservatives seem to love spreading fake news, especially when it relates to topics where they are clueless.
Why I Care What Happens to the Children of Yemen
VIEW FROM HERE--For nearly six years I lived next to a family from Yemen. Today it is impossible for me to see people from that country as…
Green New Deal: Building a ‘Bold and Unapologetic’ Political Coalition
CLIMATE POLITICS-Progressive organizers are mobilizing behind the Green New Deal resolution—unveiled last week by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Co…
Millennial-Bashing Is Class Warfare
EXPOSED-In 2013, Time magazine published an article entitled “Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation,” which bemoaned millennials’ inability…
It’s Not Capitalism We Have to Save…So Why Can’t We Let It Go?
DOLLARS AND SENSE--Every so often these days, I read it. I think the Economist did a cover story on it. Bloomberg, an article. The Times, a…
Instead of Trump’s Border Wall, What Would a National Emergency Over Gun Violence Look Like?
GUN POLITICS--As President Donald Trump weighed the prospect of declaring a national emergency to erect a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border wi…
Starving to Death: Why Trump Didn't Mention Yemen in his SOTU
VIEW FROM HERE-According to the Government Accountability Office, President Trump's early trips to Mar-a-Lago cost 13.8 million dollars. Th…
Truthful Reporting in the Balkans Is Life-Threatening
WORLD WATCH-Kosovo investigative journalist Parim Olluri knew the assailants who physically attacked him two years ago in front of his hous…
You Know What’s Not Cool Anymore? Billionaires.
INEQUALITY AND WEALTH-Their very existence is now the subject of political debate, sparked most recently by tax-the-rich proposals from two…
Saying HELL NO to Authoritarian Takeover
MY TURN--Most Americans have been placated to the point of assuming that no group or leader could ever dupe them to the point of a complete…
Impact of Global Warming On Thwaites Glacier Shocks Even Scientists
CLIMATE CHANGE--“It’s a disturbing discovery,” according to Pietro Milillo, a radar scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, who co-authored…
Many Hurdles … Plus the Afghan Government … Ahead Before the US and the Taliban Can Put Down Their Weapons
WORLD WATCH--The longest war in American history may come to an end following an agreement in principle between the US and the Taliban,
ACLU Sues Entire Michigan School District for Being Racist AF
DISCRIMINATION IN PLAIN SIGHT--If racism was a school-sanctioned sport, I’d love to see the white supremacy team from Covington Catholic Hi…
Young People are Giving Up on Capitalism Because It Has Failed Them
MILLENNIAL WATCH-There’s a strange and terrible thing I’ve noticed — and you might have too. Nobody I know under the age of 40 or so can ma…
Despite a Rush to Judgement, Covington High School Students Still Bear Responsibility
VIEW FROM HERE-Needless to say, what happened in our nation’s capital with the Covington High School students has become a tinderbox.
