Sharif S. Elmusa: Only Flogged
For Ashraf Fayadh, a Palestinian poet sentenced in Saudi Arabia. Rejoice Our dear poet Was re-tried By a tolerant judge And won’t be Beheaded Only jailed For 8 years Only … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Welcome to 1984
The artifice of corporate totalitarianism has been exposed. The citizens, disgusted by the lies and manipulation, have turned on the political establishment. But the game is not over. Corporate power … Continue reading
Gordon Hilgers: My True Love Responds to What She Knows
Given I did not know some traveling stranger, how was I to understand what a nod may mean? So much of this us we hold is lost in unfamiliarity, for … Continue reading
Jose Padua: My True Love and Other Colors
Just off the exit from the Interstate, the man with the red, white, and blue American flag painted on the wall of his garage has the words Love These Colors … Continue reading
Paul Christensen: Turning 73
I turned 73 today. I look it. My hair is shaggy and white as old snow, my moustache a bit rough over my upper lip from the electric clipper I … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: Ghost Story
the starlings swirling and loud you’d think the years would put the thing to rest you’d think the words would hurry the drive to silence still it comes and goes … Continue reading
Bill Blum: Donald Trump’s 12-point Plan for America
Surprisingly, there is a coherent set of legal goals in Trump’s ideological scramble. Despite all his chaotic blather and bombast—and notwithstanding his penchant for flip-flops, walk-backs and clarifications—Trump has articulated … Continue reading
Naomi Shihab Nye: Thank you, Bernie Sanders
Even Walt Whitman was confused. Who has rights and who doesn’t? Are white people superior to others? How did we miss this news in grade school, holding Whitman’s words on … Continue reading
Noam Chomsky: American Power Under Challenge
Masters of Mankind (Part 1) [This piece, the first of two parts, is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books). Part 2 will be posted … Continue reading
Video: How Plastic Microbeads Are Causing Big Problems
. Have you noticed that your facial scrub, toothpaste, or body wash has tiny colored beads in it? Those are microbeads, and they are made from polyethylene and polypropylene. A … Continue reading
Nadia Prupis: ‘Warning for the World’ — Five Pacific Islands Officially Lost to Rising Seas
The event is the first official confirmation of what the future could be under climate change, researchers say. Five Pacific Islands have been swallowed by rising seas and coastal erosion, … Continue reading
Mike James: Letter from the Islands on a Common Theme
at the bottom of one ocean sits a rock that hides another ocean at the bottom of that ocean another rock hides another ocean then another rock, another … Continue reading
Video: The Protein Combining Myth
As Dr. Michael Greger explains in this video, the myth that plant proteins are incomplete, necessitating protein combining, was debunked by the scientific nutrition community decades ago. Human serum retinol … Continue reading
Video: Hipsters Love Coffee
A lot of people think that being a barista in a coffee shop is easy. Well, it’s not. A lot of people come in with really strange requests. .
