USA in the World
15.12.2014
Climate Change: A Planetary Emergency
The stock markets are sliding, America is shaken by CIA torture practices, and extrajudicial killings by police, NATO continues to…
14.12.2014
Got Free Speech? Not if you are an attorney…
The Illinois Registration and Disciplinary Commission has just issued a recommendation for a three year suspension of the license to…
13.12.2014
US: Historical Mythology in the Service of Fascism
The United States government, at this moment, is aligned with many fascists and neo-Nazis. In Ukraine, a swastika-wearing gang called…
11.12.2014
Why Rockefellers Aim at Destroying Farmers Worldwide?
For the better part of the past century Western pop culture has systematically denigrated and devalued what should be the…
10.12.2014
Rising Global Inequality and the Reign of Corporate Empire
Today’s world is increasingly becoming dominated by private special interests and multinational corporations who usurp political systems around the world,…
08.12.2014
Prisoners of Preconception – The Problems of Bias in American Intelligence
Anyone who has worked through post-mortems on the Iraq war is familiar with the pitfalls associated with ‘groupthink’ and preconceptions.…
06.12.2014
The Global Context of the Ferguson Uprising
On August 9th, unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown was killed by Police Officer Darren Wilson. This is not an uncommon…
06.12.2014
Justice is Lynched in Ferguson
The Missouri grand jury has spoken on the Ferguson shooting. All the hype about a 6’4” 320-pound young black man…
05.12.2014
Freedom of Association: Why Independence Has Become the Preserve of the Far Right
For almost all of human history there have been Empires. Even in the ancient world there was a distinction between…
04.12.2014
All That Glitters Isn’t Gold, Even Gold
In times of socioeconomic turmoil, gold receives renewed interest. It is seen as a means of exchange with enduring value…
29.11.2014
Assisted Suicide—A Slippery Slope to Eugenics?
With last week's vote on A2270, New Jersey's Assembly approved physician assisted suicide. Oregon, Washington and Vermont have also passed…
26.11.2014
US at Crossroads Between Russia, Middle East, and China
Washington officials have recently announced that the United States is going to increase its military presence in Iraq, at the…
