Jose Padua: Watching Television with my Mother
Watching television with my Mom sometimes it was professional wrestling and she’d go one two THREE whenever the bad guy heel got pinned by the babyface hero. She always liked … Continue reading
Noam Chomsky: “The Iranian Threat” — Who is the Gravest Danger to World Peace?
Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the five veto-holding members of the U.N. Security … Continue reading
Video: Prehistoric Music of Ireland
This video shows a sample of Irish musical instruments from the Bronze Age to the early Medieval period.
George Yancy and Cornel West: The Fire of a New Generation
George Yancy: Recently, on Aug. 10, you were arrested along with others outside the courthouse in St. Louis because of the collective resistance against continued racial injustice and police brutality. … Continue reading
Jose Padua: On the Sunshine of Our Lives and the Beauty of These Summer Days Spent in the City
At the Port Authority bus station in New York City my daughter watches as the tall strange man with the tin foil wrapped around the short braids of hair on … Continue reading
William deBuys: Entering the Mega-Drought Era in America
California — As Both Climate Victim and Responder, the National Style-Setter Leads the Way Long ago, I lived in a cheap flat in San Francisco and worked as the lone straight … Continue reading
Elizabeth Gargano: The Dream Visit
. When I walk into the living room, my mother’s fake oriental rug gleams like spilled wine, its long-necked birds and spiky flowers following their untraceable paths. . My dead … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Evoking the Wrath of Nature
MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H.—The wind on the peak of Mount Washington—the East Coast’s highest point, where some of the most erratic and treacherous weather in the world occurs—reached 60 miles an … Continue reading
Dan Cobb: President Obama’s Carbon Initiative is Bold and Ground-Breaking, and Falls Desperately Short
President Obama’s initiative to cut US CO2 emissions is “ground-breaking”, “aggressive”, and given the gravity of the crisis we are facing, critically inadequate. Each of us must grasp the fact … Continue reading
Vanessa German: The Earth Said to me
the earth said to me come here. come here and set down. lend me your ear. put your fear. ooops. she said. i mean put your ear here. lay your … Continue reading
Paige M. Tomaselli: You have a Constitutional Right to Record and Report Illegal Activity at Factory Farms
Ag-gag laws have become an increasingly prevalent way for factory farms and slaughterhouses to hide unsafe, inhumane animal treatment practices. But on August 5, a federal judge declared that Idaho’s … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: Tucson, 1970
I remember standing in a long line being processed into jail. Guy behind me is furious: they’ve handcuffed him to a transvestite who is smiling at his discomfort. They put … Continue reading
Patricia A. Nugent: Shifting Our Energy
“Hey, want to get arrested with me next weekend?” she casually asks over a latte. “No,” I answer without hesitation, surprising even myself with the alacrity of my decision. My … Continue reading
Jose Padua: And When Lilacs Bloom There Will Be Time Enough for Both Anger and Light
After dinner one evening my daughter asks, “What if I grow up to have anger issues?” It feels like a summer night with the warm weather newly arrived and it’s … Continue reading
