BY CHARLOTTE DENNETT It was the sign that got to me. I was standing with protesters outside the Burlington (VT) City Hall at a rally…
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BY MARTHA ROSENBERG The malaria drug Lariam (mefloquine) is linked to grisly crimes like Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales’ 2012 murder of 16 Afghan civilians, the murders…
by P. Sainath Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s lockdown speech of March 24, 2020 gave a nation of 1.4 billion people four hours to shut itself…
by Stan Cox The Inflation Reduction Act is being hailed by the mainstream climate movement, Congress members, and the media as the most important climate bill in…
by Dr. Jordan Vaughn and Dr. Stewart Tankersley Three words are essential to science. Three words were missing from our leaders and pundits over the…
BY CAL WINSLOW Thousands of Northern California Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), are on strike. Picketing…
By RON JACOBS The recent provocative and unnecessary visit to Taiwan by Democratic Senator Pelosi may well be a turning point the US (and potentially, the…
BY WILLIAM E. BUTLER The sentencing of WNBA star Brittney Griner to nine years behind bars and a fine of 1 million rubles – between US$10,000 and…
By KATHLEEN WALLACE Generally when Kansas makes the national news it’s not for a reason left-leaning Kansans are proud of. True, we have some swoon-worthy items…
By BINOY KAMPMARK The indomitable spirit of Raphael Lemkin, bibliophile, assiduous documenter of humanity’s dark deeds and inexecrable conduct, is bound to be an unsettled one. …
BY PATRICK COCKBURN I often think at this time of year about what would have happened if Hitler had ordered the invasion of Britain in…
BY ROGER WATERS, VIJAY PRASHAD AND MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS The United States maintains a list of countries that it considers as “state sponsors of terrorism.” There are…
BY JOSEPH GERSON FacebookTwitterRedditEmail U.S.-Chinese relations are worse than at any time since the renewal or relations began in the early 1970s. As in the late…
by David Rosen “Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name?” – Walt Whitman, “Democratic Vistas”…