Adrian Blevins: Bloodline
O, high as crazy hell and blasé like rocks was how he seemed to want to play it there in the hospital with his hands knit loose behind his head … Continue reading
William J. Astore: War Is the New Normal
Seven Deadly Reasons Why America’s Wars Persist It was launched immediately after the 9/11 attacks, when I was still in the military, and almost immediately became known as the Global … Continue reading
Howard Zinn: “War is Terrorism.”
Historian and educator Howard Zinn said that inspiring students to change the world should be the “modest little aim” of teaching. January 27 marked five years since the death of … Continue reading
Chana Bloch: Death March, 1945
. “There was a muddy ditch at the side of the road where the road took a sudden turn. If I could jump —.” Five Muselmänner abreast, the trekking dead, … Continue reading
Why the American Military Is Doomed
Originally posted on The Contrary Perspective:
General Flynn (FP: Foreign Policy) W.J. Astore Is the U.S. military doomed? I’d say yes. But it’s not because our troops are uncommitted, our…
My Love/Hate Relationship with College Teaching
Originally posted on The Contrary Perspective:
Richard Sahn. Introduction by William Astore. Being a college professor is supposed to be a grand profession. Assuming we’re not underpaid adjuncts with neither…
Six Years in an African Village: An Interview with Jill Kandel
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog:
A guest post from Lisa Ohlen Harris: I “met” Jill Kandel in 2006 when she submitted a wonderful essay to Relief Journal, where I…
Richard Eskow, Mary Green Swig, Steven Swig: A Student Jubilee! Liberate 41 Million Americans From Crushing Loan Debt
We propose a Student Debt Jubilee which will forgive all $1.3 trillion in American student loans. . President Obama’s proposal for tuition-free community college education, and the broader discussion which … Continue reading
Dawn Potter: Company Town
2011 E. B. Leisenring Jr., the scion of a powerful Pennsylvania coal family who led industry negotiators during a long and bitter mine workers’ strike in 1978, ignoring pleas by … Continue reading
Video: Brian Turner reads two poems
Iraq War veteran Brian Turner reads two poems at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival.
Timothy Karr: Building an Internet Movement from the Bottom Up
‘In the end, the Internet is simply an effective tool for connecting people. Whether the network becomes a force for good or evil is up to its users.’ In the … Continue reading
Todd Miller and Gabriel M. Schivone: Gaza in Arizona
How Israeli High-Tech Firms Will Up-Armor the U.S.-Mexican Border It was October 2012. Roei Elkabetz, a brigadier general for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was explaining his country’s border policing … Continue reading
Djelloul Marbrook: Annotating Books and Other Heresies
I grew up in an austere Protestant ethos in which the annotation of a book was desecration, as sinful as a Catholic mass. We were to cherish books and pass … Continue reading
Video: Which Spices Fight Inflammation?
Rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular disease and diabetes are some of the conditions that have been linked with higher levels of inflammation. Dr. Michael Greger reports on an elegant experiment to determine … Continue reading
