My friend Colin wrote the play! Spread the word. The Missouri History Museum and Bread and Roses Missouri presents the premiere of Jailbird, a new play. In 1920, Eugene Victor Debs ran a campaign for…
When corporate-endowed foundations first made their appearance in the United States, there was a fierce debate about their provenance, legality, and lack of accountability. People suggested that if companies had so much surplus money, they…
Armed with their billions, these NGOs have waded into the world, turning potential revolutionaries into salaried activists, funding artists, intellectuals and filmmakers, gently luring them away from radical confrontation, ushering them in the direction of…
As founder and editor of WikiLeaks, his crime has been to make sense of dark times. WikiLeaks has an impeccable record of accuracy and authenticity which no newspaper, no TV channel, no radio station, no…
Dear Andrew, You and I make frequent reference these delirious days to Alexander Cockburn, who published us in his Counterpunch website back during both the Bush and Obama administrations. A while ago I reread his…
And then, at last, they saw the country and the countercountry – because every country, like all things in this world, has its contrary, and that contrary-to-a-country is its countercountry, the forces of darkness that…
Interesting to find an entry for Noam Chomsky in The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia. The brief mention includes, “He rose to even greater prominence for his lifelong pursuit of radical leftist ideas, some mainstream (he opposed…
Interesting to find an entry for Noam Chomsky in The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia. The brief mention includes, “He rose to even greater prominence for his lifelong pursuit of radical leftist ideas, some mainstream (he opposed…
Stephen Batchelor has been exploring for quite some time a Buddhism with overt religiosity stripped away. His thoughtful, engaging project reminds me of a similar one undertaken by John Dominic Crossan regarding the historical Jesus….
1. “… when we came to the camp, Hamzat led the khan into the tent. And I stayed with the horses. I was at the foot of the hill when shooting began in Hamzat’s tent….