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Operation Honduras Whitewash
Roaming Charges: Are We Not Men? No, We Are DAVOS
Carney’s Hot Air at Davos as Cover for Western Barbarism
From Instinct to Theory: A Left in Search of Itself
Occupy Minneapolis
Not All is Rolex in Switzerland: Trump, Davos and the Crans-Montana Tragedy
We Are Pointing at Ourselves
Why Aren’t All Americans Protesting?
Trump’s Ignoble Interventions: How “Regional Imperialism” Leads to World War
Trump’s Foreign Policy, the Comic Book Edition
South Sudan After the Pilgrimage: When Moral Attention Isn’t Enough
When Lebensraum Comes to America
The Disconnected Present: Neoliberal Fascism and the Politics of Erasure
The Burgeoning Resistance Amidst the Crackdown in Minneapolis
Donald Trump, Poster Child for Megalomania
The Absurdity and Barbarity of the “Immigration Debate”: Breaking Free of the “Colonial Framework”
The Dog That Didn’t Bark
Roaming Charges: What a Fool Believes
What is the True Death Toll in Gaza?
War Only Helps Iran’s Leaders
The Rhyme: Kent State and Renee Good
Sound Grammar: The Best Jazz Albums of 2025
Right Message, Wrong Messengers: A Brief History of Oil and U.S. Empire in Iran
Donald the Destroyer: Act II
Venezuela and the Trump Administration’s “Hemisphere First” Agenda
Six Points to Navigate the Turmoil in Iran
West Papua and the Genocide Mosaic
West Papua and the Genocide Mosaic
Donald Trump’s $6 Trillion Tax Hike and Increase in Military Spending
Donald Trump’s $6 Trillion Tax Hike and Increase in Military Spending
Renee Good and the Rage that Fuels State Violence
The New York Times Support for Israel Never Ends
The Power Play President
Democracy Challenged: Who Governs Gaza? Who Runs Venezuela? “Who Does New York Belong To?”
Cultural Hegemony Today
Europe’s Strategic Autonomy Problem is No Longer Abstract
The Current Situation in Venezuela: A Government in Charge, a People Resilient
Trump and Pump: Another Oil Quagmire
Net Zero: Fantasy, Red Herring, or Reality?
On Seeing the Photo of Nicolás Maduro Aboard the U.S.S. Iwo Jima
Sleepless Again: Or What the World of Yesterday Says About Trump’s Attack on Venezuela and the World of Today
The Minnesota Day Care Fraud Story: Trump Says Fraud is a Big Problem When Black People Do It
Trump, Venezuela and the Roosevelt Corollary
Naked Imperialism in Venezuela
Captain America for Sale: $72 Billion
Roaming Charges: Preliminary Notes on a Kidnapping
“We’re Going to Run the Country:” Preparing an Illegal Occupation in Venezuela
Could Venezuela Happen in Brazil?
Prominent Think Tank Joins Media in Endorsing Trump’s Foreign Policy
Report from Caracas: The US Kidnaps President Nicolás Maduro, but Venezuela Fights Back to Maintains Its Revolution
The US Attacks Venezuela and Seizes It President
Monroe Doctrine: the Bad Neighbor Returns
Trump’s Contempt for the Constitution
US Starts 2026 by Bombing Venezuela and Kidnapping Its President, Setting a Tone of Imperialist Violence for the Year
With the Attack on Venezuela, Trump Has Put the Death of International Law in Plain Sight
American Pogrom: the Year in ICE Abductions
Portraits by the Mysterious “Master I.S.”: An Art History Detective Story
Oligarchy XIV: Thoughts on the Anarchism of Dorothy Day
Meditations on the Loss of a Voice
What Happened at Mauser?
A Moment of Hope in Gaza
Out of the Greenhouse and Into the Madhouse: the Year in Climate Politics
The Venezuela Escalation Ignores a Long History of U.S. Hypocrisy on Drugs
America’s Loss of Science and Loss of Virtue
Antiracism in the Age of Trump
Gaza as the Last Moral Frontier against Israel’s Policy of Annihilation
Shaming the UN by Ratifying Genocide
The Vietnam Draft Revisited With Trump’s Class of Ships
Iran and the Price of Sovereignty: What It Takes Not to Be a Client State
Goodbye to Language: The Year in Trumpspeak
Redacting Our Reality, One Epstein at a Time
Adam Raskin, My Brother and Comrade, RIP
Trump’s Nuclear Obsession
How Unions Provide a Counterweight to the Epstein Class
How Many Manufacturing Jobs Has Trump Actually Lost?
Why We Are on Hunger Strike in UK Jails
US Blockades Venezuela in a War Still Searching for an Official Rationale
Ceasefires in the Gaza Genocide: A Historical Perspective
Roaming Charges: the Politics of Crudity and Cruelty
The Angry Tide Has Washed Into Chile
Trump’s IRS Witch Hunt Can’t Touch What Matters Most
Chile Swerves to the Right and Into the Past
To End the Genocide, We Must Hold Weapons Manufacturers Accountable (or Shut Them Down)
The Demise of Social Democracy in the US and UK
I Bet I Know Where You Got Your Jackboots: Immigration Sweeps in New Orleans
A Tale of Two ICEs
The US-Israeli Scheme to Partition Gaza and Break Palestinian Will
The Caribbean Faces Two Choices: Join the US Attempt to Intimidate Venezuela or Build Its Own Sovereignty
The Caribbean Faces Two Choices: Join the US Attempt to Intimidate Venezuela or Build Its Own Sovereignty
It’s Not Just About Venezuela: Trump Intends a Wider Domino Effect
Annals of the Covert World: How Assassination Became Policy at the CIA
The New Kill Zone: Gaza’s Borders after the ‘Ceasefire’
Learning Little From History
Trump is Melting Down: Is This the Beginning of the End?
Resolution 2803: How the UN Security Council Legitimized Palestinian Children’s Death-Worlds
Silenced Reports & Epstein Files: Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women Still Don’t Make News
NYTs Calls Trump Strategy in South America “Pragmatic”
Roaming Charges: President Bone Spurs Fetes Crown Prince Bone Saws
Trump Adds Censorship to the Campaign Against Arms Control and Disarmament
The Warning We Ignore at Our Peril: From El Salvador’s Dungeons to America’s Doorstep
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