Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg: Welcome to the New Democratic Party
This weekend in Orlando, Florida members of the Platform Committee met to help create the Democratic party’s positions on a number of key issues. I was honored to attend as … Continue reading
Raymond Bonner: The Terror Suspect Who Had Nothing To Give
“I would be strapped to a board by my arms and legs and by my waist (which was very painful because of my wound.) Guards with black costumes, masks and … Continue reading
Diane Kerr: A Positive Lexicography
post Orlando, 2016 [a small boy, a young woman, forty-nine people] In our new world only certain words shall be allowed. We will still say ahimsa (Sanskrit) meaning … Continue reading
Video: “Get Up Stand Up” by Keith Richards and friends
Musicians from around the world join the Playing for Change Band in singing for peace and justice, featuring Keith Richards, Keb’ Mo’, Guardians of the Fire, and others. . Keith … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: The Sadness Of Alan Seeger
The American poet Alan Seeger died July 4, 1916 — 100 years ago today. There are many cliches about this or that “forgotten war”. World War I is by no … Continue reading
Joan E. Bauer: Edward Snowden Is Flying into Moscow
On a day of just bearable June heat after the summer solstice, a quiet Sunday as Edward Snowden is flying into Moscow, I am studying photos of a Northside garden: … Continue reading
Video: Harry Frankfurt on Bullshit
. Harry Frankfurt is an American philosopher and author of the New York Times bestseller “On Bullshit”. Although first conceived as an essay over 30 years ago, his theory on bullshit … Continue reading
Lauren McCauley: Fear the Hate — If Trump is “Tanking,” Why Is He Tied with Clinton in National Poll?
Brexit serves as troubling backdrop to latest U.S. election polling numbers. “Hate winning.” That’s the troubling explanation provided by Quinnipiac University on Wednesday as its latest national poll showed that … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: We are now in a Brexit World
Here’s an unavoidable fact: we are now in a Brexit world. We are seeing the first signs of a major fragmentation of this planet that, until recently, the cognoscenti were … Continue reading
C. Day Lewis: Where Are The War Poets?
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom’s cause. It is the logic of our … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: Editing
–for Denis Lane This other Nam vet comes to see me and wants me to see his manuscript. He brings this nosh, some bagels, so I say OK, let’s … Continue reading
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers: A Torturer Lives Here
Activists Hit Them Where They Live. Senate Republican Policy Committee Chair John Barrasso (R-WY), a mouthpiece for the dirty energy interests who donated $433,000 to his campaigns since 2011, criticized … Continue reading
Video: Jean-Michel Jarre and Edward Snowden — Exit
. Jean-Michel Jarre, a pioneer in electronic music, collaborated on this recording with Edward Snowden, the CIA analyst-turned-whistleblower who now has asylum in Russia. For a commentary on the aesthetic … Continue reading
Noam Chomsky: The Doomsday Clock
Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival [This essay is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books).] In January 2015, the Bulletin of … Continue reading
