SOCIAL/CULTURAL

NOTE: Some readers have asked why I’m not writing about the impeachment proceedings. The answer is that […]

Iran has just gone through another period of violent antigovernment protests a decade after the “Green Revolution,” […]

“I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” ~ Samuel Beckett Sometimes it just gets to be too […]

Blood has become big business in the United States and there is no shortage of corporations ready […]

On December 31 this website will be eight years old. It originated when readers called me out […]

Every year or so around my birthday I like to pause and write an essay outlining where I stand […]

Future historians, if they exist, will look back in amazement at the leaders of three nations in […]

Is criticism of Israel already an official hate crime in America? One subject that congressmen and the […]

New research found that, of the 17,427 accounts studied using anti-Morales hashtag #BoliviaNoHayGolpe, almost a third were […]

One of the annoying things about continuing to write about the OPCW/Douma scandal in the near-total absence […]

“When we greet each other, I can feel his ribs” – John Pilger describes visiting Assange in […]

Mark Curtis’ talk at Julian Assange event in London on Thursday. My view is that we are […]