Stand your ground
By Robert Slayton.
I think I’ve found a solution to the debate over open carry laws that will satisfy all sides and answer our many concerns.
Get a tank.
That’s right, folks concerned about their safety as they enjoy [...]
Why Russia is Invading Ukraine
By Julian French.
Alphen, Netherlands. 3 March. Article 30 of the May 2009 Russian National Security Strategy states, “Negative influences on the military security of the Russian Federation and its allies are aggravated by [...]
Dawn of the Dead Watershed
By Richard Mills.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information
There’s a lot of water on the planet we inhabit – an estimated 326 million trillion gallons or 1,260,000,000,000,000,000,000 [...]
Why The Three Biggest Economic Lessons Were Forgotten
By Robert Reich.
Why has America forgotten the three most important economic lessons we learned in the thirty years following World War II?
Before I answer that question, let me remind you what those lessons were:
First, America’s real [...]
The Highest-Paid University President Makes 170 Times More than the Average Adjunct
By Lawrence S. Wittner.
Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago and the highest-paid university president in the United States. Image via Flickr.
As the United States begins to grapple with the issue of [...]
Fascism’s Ugly Face in Ukraine
By Stephen Lendman.
Far-right Ukrainian ultranationalists are fascist extremists. Washington provides support. Oleh Tyahnybok heads the neo-Nazi Svoboda party. It’s allied with likeminded groups.
They openly display [...]
Original Thinking: No going back
By Barry Shaw.
Why should Israel give in to international pressure without a guaranteed right to regain land if it is attacked from the territory it gives away?
An IDF soldier at the West Bank security barrier. Photo: REUTERS
You know [...]
When Disappointment Comes from The Right
By Frank Salvato.
As Republicans stand on the precipice of taking back the majority in the United States Senate – that is if (and that’s a mighty big “if”) they can achieve the remarkable feat of not snatching defeat [...]
The Good of the Whole Sacrificed for a Few
By Richard Larsen.
With the stroke of a pen and an utterance from the president, Obamacare’s employer mandate has been postponed yet again, this time until 2016 for some businesses. Headlines across the nation from the mainstream [...]
The implications of Turkish crisis in domestic and foreign policy
By George Protopapas.
The corruption’s scandal that has deeply wounded the Islamic government of Prime- Minister of Turkey, Tayip Erdogan, is a complex issue with important consequences to the politics, economy, society and the foreign [...]
Climate Change and Re-Insurance: The Human Security Issue
By Anis Bey.
To read Article: Climate Change and Re-Insurance: The Human Security Issue
Clogged Metropolitan Arteries
By Otaviano Canuto.
Bad conditions of mobility and accessibility to jobs and services in most metropolitan regions in developing countries are a key development issue. Besides the negative effects on the wellbeing of their [...]
With A Pen He’s A Dictator
By Richard Larsen.
The Constitution of the United States was drafted and ratified as the foundational legal codex of the country in part because it would prevent tyranny in America. It had a series of checks and balances between the [...]
“Operation Afro-Dilution”: Michigan’s Plan to Flood Detroit with Upscale Immigrants
By Glen Ford.
It is the general consensus among white people that Detroit’s problem is, too many Blacks. Michigan’s governor has a solution: flood the city with upscale green card holders. “An infusion of global migrants would enable [...]
The Proliferating Role of Populism in American Politics
By Rich Rubino.
Populism (the doctrine that pits the people against established elites) might be at its high watermark in American politics. On both the right and the left, there is a proliferating challenge from a populist ideological [...]
Socialism, no longer a dirty word in the U.S.?
By Alana Moceri.
In 2009, I wrote in my blog that President Obama wasn’t a socialist. This post was gleefully linked to and commented on in Spain’s right wing press who took it as a rebuke to the PSOE, who had [...]
Just What Is McAuliffe Up To?
By Frank Salvato.
There has been a lot of damage done to the United States Constitution courtesy of the Progressive Movement over the years. The passage of the 17th Amendment alone removed a critical constitutional check-and-balance [...]
The PTSD crisis that is being ignored: Americans wounded in their own neighborhoods
By Lois Beckett, ProPublica.
Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has one of the busiest trauma centers in the nation, treating about 2,000 patients a year for gunshots, stabbings and other violent injuries.
So when researchers started screening patients [...]
Gathering wild food in the city: Rethinking the role of foraging in urban ecosystem
By Alton Parrish.
These exploratory studies point to the importance for planners, managers and scholars to understand urban green spaces as not only providers of services, but also providers of material products.
Credit: Taylor [...]
Murder for hire: Shadowy world of Britain’s discount hitmen
By Alton Parrish.
Contract killing is one of the least studied, but most intriguing areas of organized crime; and new research into British hitmen has found that in some cases victims were murdered for as little as £200. The first [...]