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No, Racism isn’t in the Past, and isn’t Rare or Aberrant: Stop Romanticizing
This painting by by Winslow Homer (1836 – 1910) is entitled “The Veteran in a New Field.” He painted it in 1865, not long after […]
Syria from Eden to Ruin: The World may forget, but the Catastrophe hasn’t Gone Away
From Eden to Ruin ( Christian Courier) – While living in Jordan, my wife Sally and I fell in love with Syria and its people […]
Organizing the Rich or the Poor? Which America Will Be Ours After the Pandemic?
By Liz Theoharis | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In the summer of 1995, when I was 18, I started visiting Tent City, a temporary […]
Esper and Mattis try to put the Genie of Trump Militarism back in the Bottle, Years too Late
Former SecDef Mattis calls Trump a Danger to the Constitution
Black Americans and Palestinians ‘can’t breathe’ because of injustice
By Ahmed Al-Burai | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Over the past week, two brutal events added more sadness to the morbid climate […]
Can the president really order the military to occupy US cities and states?
By Jennifer Selin | – After a week of both peaceful protests and violent chaos in the wake of George Floyd’s death, President Donald Trump […]
OK, Boomer: The Trump Administration’s Generational Lies Deepen America’s Fissures
( Tomdispatch.com ) – These days, teaching graduating college seniors has me, as the Brits would say in the London Underground, “minding the gap.” In […]
Don’t Hesitate to Raise a wine Glass High: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
For the earliest collection of verse attributed to Omar Khayyam see my just-published The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian (NB: […]
How American cities were Reduced to Esper’s “Battlespace”: From Fallujah to Minneapolis
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Bush administration’s war of aggression on and military occupation of Iraq that began in 2003 shifted the United States […]
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